Citation: Bailey, Bot. Bull. Dept Agric. Qld 13:12 (1896).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
A small virgate shrub to 30-60 cm high (to 30 in S.Aust.), branches dichotomous, glaucous and sparsely hairy with short white hairs; leaves opposite, on distinct petioles c. 1 mm long, oblong to ovate, 10-20 x 4-8 mm, obtuse or apiculate, asymmetrical at the base, margins nearly entire or serrulate, with 3-5 veins starting from near the base, texture somewhat coriaceous, often bearing hairs on the veins similar to those on the branches; ray and raylet-leaves ovate, 1-5 mm long; stipules filiform, to 0.5 mm long, deciduous.

cyathia shortly pedunculate in rather loose irregular cymes, terminal on upper branchlets; involucre c. 1 mm long; gland appendages petal-like, orbicular, c. 0.5 mm broad, entire, white or with a slightly coloured rim.

Capsule 3-lobed, c. 2.25 mm broad, green to light-brown, smooth, glabrous; styles recurved, divided to the middle; seed ovate, 1.2-1.5 mm long, slightly compressed, mucronulate, smooth, pruinose or red-brown, sometimes whitish lines lengthwise marking the angles.

	Euphorbia coghlanii twig, cyanthium fruit and seed.
Image source: fig 401b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

	Euphorbia coghlanii twig, cyathium fruit and seed.
Image source: fig 401b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Bailey (1913) Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants 471:fig. 460.

Distribution:  In sandy or skeletal soils.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Feb. — Aug.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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