Euphorbia condylocarpa


Euphorbia condylocarpa is a plant species in the genus Euphorbia.

Description

Medium hairless perennial, leaves strongly eared at the base, obtuse to subacute at the tip, margins serrate or toothless, stalks 0 or short. The capsules are relatively large rather spherical with low wide warts on the three lobes. Seeds 3-3.5 mm, smooth, dark brown, with yellowish 0.5 mm appendage. Mar-Jun Apr-May.
The eastern forms have rather dense heads of flowers and more discernably-toothed leaves, but the Turkish forms are more open and effusely flowered with obscure leaf teeth and were originally distinguished as E. cardiophylla Boiss. & Heldr. but now merged into E. condylocarpa.
Similar species include E. apios, E. dimorphocaulon, E. platyphyllos.

Habitat

Turkey: Open Pinus forest, Abies cilicica forest, Quercus scrub, rocky slopes, screes, steppe, field margins, 20–2100 m.
Iran: Mountain slopes, oak forests, meadows, rocky slopes and steppe forests on limestone, at 1500–2500 m.

Range

Iran, Iraq, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Turkey .

Phytochemistry

The plant contains the flavonol trifolin.