- Family:
- Euphorbiaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Euphorbia L.
Euphorbia grandidens Haw.

[FZ]
Euphorbiaceae, S. Carter & L.C. Leach. Flora Zambesiaca 9:5. 2001
- Morphology General Habit
- Succulent, spiny tree to 10–16 m high.
- Morphology Trunk
- Trunk with several stout, ascending branches, rebranching with ultimate branchlets in clustered whorls at the apices; secondary branches densely rebranching, deeply 2–4-angled, 1.2–2 cm wide; angles sinuate with tubercles 8–30 mm apart along the margins.
- Morphology General Spines
- Spine shields quite separate, 2–7 × 2 mm, obovate; spines to 0.5–6 mm long; prickles vestigial.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves 1 × 1 mm, scale-like, deltoid, deciduous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Cymes solitary, simple, subsessile; bracts 1 × 1.5 mm, scale-like.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Cyathia
- Cyathia 2.5 × 4–5 mm, with cup-shaped involucres; glands transversely oblong, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, touching, yellowish-green; lobes subquadrate, dentate.
- sex Male
- Male flowers: bracteoles c. 2.5 mm long; stamens to c. 4 mm long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Female flower: perianth 3-lobed, with lobes 1 mm long; styles 1.5 mm long, joined at the base, with spreading, shortly bifid tips. Male flowers: bracteoles c. 2.5 mm long; stamens to c. 4 mm long.
- sex Female
- Female flower: perianth 3-lobed, with lobes 1 mm long; styles 1.5 mm long, joined at the base, with spreading, shortly bifid tips.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule deeply lobed, c. 8 mm in diameter, exserted on a curved pedicel to 8 mm long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds c. 2.5 mm in diameter, subglobose, brown, smooth.
Native to:
Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Swaziland
Euphorbia grandidens Haw. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Philos. Mag. J. 66: 33 (1825)
Accepted by
- Bruyns, P.V. (2012). Nomenclature and typification of southern African species of Euphorbia Bothalia 42: 217-245.
- Calane da Silva, M., Izdine, S. & Amuse, A.B. (2004). A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Mozambique: 1-184. SABONET, Pretoria.
- Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Möller, A. & Becker, R. (2019). Field guide to the succulent Euphorbias of Southern Africa: 1-320. BRIZA.
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