Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) 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, prostrate, more or less pubescent, or glabrate; stems branched at the base; branches slender. .5-15 dm. long, forking. Leaves thin, oblong or ovate, strongly oblique at the base, 4-7 mm. long, obtuse, more or less serrulate toward the apex, minutely pubescent on both sides, petiolate; stipules thin, papyraceous, broadly deltoid, eiliate at the acute apex; involucres glabrous, axillary, minute; lobes elongate-triangular, eiliate on the margin; glands 4, transversely oval, the fifth replaced by a small extra glabrous tooth on the involueral margin; appendages about the width of the glands, finely manycrenate; capsule strongly tricoceous, glabrous except on the keels of the cocci which bear a fringe of long hairs; seeds pink, elongated-ovoid-quadrangular, pointed, 1 X -5 mm., strongly and sharply sculptured by numerous, strictly transverse, ridges which include the angles.
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Distribution
Grassy places on New Providence and Grand Turk Island : Bermuda ; North Carolina to Missouri and southward to Brazil and Peru ; West Indies. Prostrate Spurge.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| North Carolina United States of America North America| Missouri United States of America North America| Brazil South America| Peru South America|