Citation: Domin, Biblthca Bot. 89, 4:863 (1927).

Synonymy: Charnaescyce inappendiculata (Domin) Hassail, Aust. J. Bot. 24:640 (1976).

Common name: None

Description:
Much-branched diffuse annual or short-lived perennial, stems to 30 cm long, reddish, papillose all over and often pilose with scattered hairs on older stems, at length woody basally, arising from often a woody tap root; leaves opposite, subsessile (in S.Aust.), oblong-obovate, to 8 x 4.4 mm (2-4.5 x 1-2.5 mm in S.Aust.), obtuse, asymmetrical at the base, entire or minutely serrulate at the summit, green, glaucous (in S.Aust.) and minutely and densely papillose on both sides; stipules filiformly fringed, exceeding the petiole, pink to white.

cyathia on peduncles to 0.5 mm long, red (in S.Aust.), single in upper axils or terminal on very short branchlets, supported by 2 terminal raylet-leaves which exceed the cyathia; involucre turbinate, c. 1 mm long, red, minutely but densely papillose; glands 4, reniform, 0.2-0.5 mm long, red, rarely with crenate appendages of long or short teeth, usually with appendages reduced to a circular rim c. 0.1 mm wide or absent; styles filiform, deeply divided, ascending, red (in S.Aust.).

Capsule subglobose, 3-lobed, c. 2 mm across, minutely and densely papillose (in S.Aust.), reddish; seed quadrangular-oblong, 0.9-1.2 x 0.4-0.7 mm, 4 concave sides between the smooth ribs not manifestly rugulose, but rather very faintly but densely papillose, pink-brown (in S.Aust.).

	Euphorbia inappendiculata habit, twig, leaf and leaft section cyathium, glands, fruit and seed.
Image source: fig 401i in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  In open woodlands and rocky hills or sand flats.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: May — Sept.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Shows similarities with E. drummondii and when the papillae (on stems, fruits and seeds) are very fine these 2 species are indistinguishable. The papillae are visible under magnification only and they are more obvious in the NW and NE regions but further south in FR and EA regions they become very fine and unrecognisable, E. inappendiculata is, perhaps only a variant of E. drummondii.

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