Chamaesyce brasiliensis (Lam.) Small
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Euphorbiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual, erect or ascending, similar in habit to the last, but with more filiform branehlets, smaller and more falcate leaves, fewer-flowered cymes, and black seeds. Stipules broadly deltoid, bifurcate into lacerate lobes; involucres glabrous without and within, very short-pedicelled; lobes triangular, mostly entire; glands minute, long-stalked, the fifth represented by a very shallow sinus flanked by two larger involucral lobes; capsule glabrous, strongly 3-coceous; seeds ovoid-quadrangular, black, 1.2 x -9 rnm., the strong, but rounded, angles white-edged, dorsal facets marked by 3 complete transverse ridges, ventral 2-ridged.
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Distribution
Open places and grassy coverts, New Providence and Eleuthera : Florida to Arizona; Bermuda; Central America to Brazil; West Indies. Brazilian Spurge.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Arizona United States of America North America| Bermuda South America| Central America| Brazil South America| West Indies|