| Author: | Leslie
Charles Leach, 1973 |
| Family: |
EUPHORBIACEAE |
| Origin: |
Zaire, Zambia |
| Soil: |
Mix |
| Water:
|
Medium |
| Sun: |
Medium |
| Thickness: |
8
Centimetres |
| Height: |
15
Centimetres |
| Flower:
|
Yellow |
| Propagate: |
Seeds/Cuttings |
| Names:
|
- |
| Synonyms: |
- |
This member of the Euphorbiaceae
family was described by Leslie Charles Leach in 1973. It is found in Zaire
and Zambia, growing in a well drained soul with some water and some
sun. The root can grow to eight centimetres in diameter, the
branches up to fifteen centimetres long. The flowers are yellow.
The genera name; Euphorbia
dates back to the first century BC, where King Juba II of
Mauritania used it in a reference to his doctor, Euphorbos, and that
name was kept as a generic name by Carl von Linnaeus. The species
name is named after Dennys Basil Fanshawe,1915- 1993, a British
botanist with specialist knowledge of the forests of Guyana and
Zambia. |
