Author: |
C.G.T. Kotschy & P. Boissier, 1866 |
Family: |
EUPHORBIACEAE |
Origin: |
Kenya,
Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia |
Soil: |
Mix |
Water:
|
Minimum - Medium |
Sun: |
Medium - Maximum |
Thickness: |
5
Centimetres |
Height: |
40
Centimetres |
Flower:
|
Green / Reddish |
Propagate: |
Seeds/Cuttings |
Names:
|
- |
Synonyms: |
Euphorbia djurensis, Schweinfurth, Georg August. ex
Ferdinand Albin Pax, 1894 |
This member of the
Euphorbiaceae family was given this name by Carl Georg
Theodor Kotschy and Peyrex Boissier in 1866. It is found in
Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, growing in a well drained soil
with little to some water and some to lots of sun. The caudex can
grow to five centimetres in diameter and 30 centimetres long, and
will be buried in the wild, but can be exposed. The plant will grow
up to 40 or even 60 centimetres.
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 refers to Bongo in the present day South Sudan, published by
Theodore Kotschy & Jean Peyritsch in the Plantae Tinneanae, of the
Sudanese expedition of Alexandrina Tinne & John Tinne, published in
1867. However, de Candolle actually published the name in 1866 in
the Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, but credits Carl Georg
Theodor Kotschy & Peyrex Boissier for their, at that
time, unpublished Plantae Tinneanae. |