Caustic Spurge: Over-ripe Fruit

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Spurges, Violets & Allies (Malpighiales)

Family:

Spurge (Euphorbiaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Caustic Spurge (Anisophyllum sp)

This Photo:

Over-ripe Fruit

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 confirming 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.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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