Euphorbia condylocarpa explained

Euphorbia condylocarpa is a plant species in the genus Euphorbia.

Description

Medium (10–35 cm) hairless perennial, leaves strongly eared at the base, obtuse to subacute at the tip, margins serrate or toothless, stalks 0 or short. The capsules are relatively large (4–5.5(6) mm) rather spherical with low wide warts on the three lobes. Seeds 3-3.5 mm, smooth, dark brown, with yellowish 0.5 mm appendage. Mar-Jun (Turkey) Apr-May (Iran).The eastern forms have rather dense heads of flowers and more discernably-toothed leaves, but the Turkish forms are more open and effusely flowered with obscure leaf teeth and were originally distinguished as E. cardiophylla Boiss. & Heldr. but now merged into E. condylocarpa. ([1] mostly, and [2] &.<ref name="Boiss">Book: Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum no. 12, p. 107 . E. Boissier. )

Similar species include E. apios (leaves uneared), E. dimorphocaulon (flowering stems autumn, c. leafless, vegetative stems spring), E. platyphyllos (annual to 1m, often hairy, fruit 2.5–3 mm).[2]

Habitat

Turkey: Open Pinus forest, Abies cilicica forest, Quercus scrub, rocky slopes, screes, steppe, field margins, 20–2100 m.[2]

Iran: Mountain slopes, oak forests, meadows, rocky slopes and steppe forests on limestone, at 1500–2500 m.[1]

Range

Iran, Iraq, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Turkey (PoWo Map).

Phytochemistry

The plant contains the flavonol trifolin.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Synopsis of Euphorbia subgen. Esula sect. Helioscopia (Euphorbiaceae) in Iran with the description of Euphorbia mazandaranica sp. nov. .
  2. Book: Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 7 . Davis.
  3. Trifolin from Euphorbia condylocarpa. Yu. V. Roshchin, Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Volume 13, Number 4, pages 481-482,