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|accepted_name=Euphorbia polyphylla
|accepted_authority=Engelmann ex Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S. ed.
|place=2, repr. 2, 694. 1892
|year=1892
}}
|common_names=Lesser Florida spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tithymalopsis polyphylla
|authority=(Engelmann ex Chapman) Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum;Euphorbia polyphylla
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Euphorbiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Euphorbia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia polyphylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 242
|treatment_page=page 250
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, with spreading rootstock. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, branched, solitary, few, or occasionally densely clumped, previous year's dead stems not persistent, 18–33 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; stipules to 0.1 mm; petiole minute or absent; blade linear to filiform, 10–20 × 0.8–1.5(–4) mm, base cuneate, margins entire, often involute, apex rounded, surfaces glabrous; venation usually obscure, midvein visible at base of wider leaves. <b>Cyathia</b> in terminal dichasia or pleiochasia; peduncle 2–6 mm (to 20 mm for central cyathium), glabrous. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate, 1.2–2 × 1.3–1.8 mm, glabrous or strigose on distal extreme; glands 5, red, elliptic, 0.5 × 1 mm; appendages white, orbiculate, 0.5–0.8 × 1.3–1.5 mm, erose. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 20–25. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous; styles 0.6–1 mm, 2-fid at apex. <b>Capsules</b> globose, 2.3–2.8 × 4.3–5.1 mm, glabrous; columella 2.5–3.2 mm. <b>Seeds</b> ashy gray, ovoid, 2.9 × 2 mm, with obscure shallow depressions; caruncle absent.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late spring–late fall.
|habitat=Open sand and pine savannas.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia polyphylla</i> is endemic to sandy habitats in the southern half of peninsular Florida. The species has been reported from coastal Louisiana, but whether those plants represent native occurrences or plantings is unclear (R. D. Thomas and C. M. Allen 1993–1998, vol. 2). The Florida populations are here recognized as the only native occurrences.</p>
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name=Euphorbia polyphylla
|authority=Engelmann ex Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Tithymalopsis polyphylla
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late spring–late fall.
|habitat=Open sand and pine savannas.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S. ed.
|publication year=1892
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_636.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum
|species=Euphorbia polyphylla
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