Mat Spurge
Whole
Mat Spurge
Leaves & Stems
Animals
Plants
Info
| Mat Spurge Whole | | Mat Spurge Leaves & Stems | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | ||||||||||||||||
| Order: | Spurges, Violets & Allies (Malpighiales) | |||||||||||||||||
| Family: | Spurge (Euphorbiaceae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||||
| Species: | Mat Spurge (Anisophyllum sp)| This Photo: | 🔍4 Small Plants🔎 | Synonyms: | Chamaesyce drummondii or Euphorbia drummondii | Other names: | Caustic Creeper, Caustic Weed, Creeping Caustic, Flat Spurge, Mat-spurge or Milkweed | Thank you Dr Kym Nicolson for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We used to have this down as Euphorbia drummondii, then some years ago they split them into over 10 different species. Dr Nathan Taylor said on iNaturalist "The plants can't be keyed without looking at seeds." Since we've never collected the seed, we don't know which of this Anisophyllum section (a subset of the Euphorbia genus) they are. Some current visual contenders, in the Murraylands Bioregion, are E. dallachyana, E. multifaria & E. verrucitesta. The other Euphorbia species are more erect, not prostrate.
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