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Euphorbia (Subgen. Chamaesyce Sect. Anisophyllum) Jaegeri, A Shrubby New Species From The Deserts Of California, United States, Victor W. Steinmann, James M. André
Euphorbia (Subgen. Chamaesyce Sect. Anisophyllum) Jaegeri, A Shrubby New Species From The Deserts Of California, United States, Victor W. Steinmann, James M. André
Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany
Euphorbia jaegeri (Euphorbiaceae), an endemic to southeastern California, United States, is described as new and illustrated with photographs. It is known from two general locations, one in the Orocopia Mountains (Riverside County) and the other in the Marble Mountains and adjacent Bristol Mountains (San Bernardino County). The habitat is desert scrub on rocky hillsides and along arroyos, primarily in rock crevices or gravelly soils, at elevations from approximately 600 to 850 m. The new species belongs to Euphorbia subgen. Chamaesyce sect. Anisophyllum. It is distinguished by the combination of a shrubby habit and involucral appendages that are deeply parted …