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|accepted_name=Euphorbia macropus
|accepted_authority=(Klotzsch & Garcke) Boissier in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.
|place=15(2): 52. 1862
|year=1862
}}
|common_names=Huachuca mountain spurge
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Anisophyllum macropus
|authority=Klotzsch & Garcke
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Euphorbia biformis
|authority=S. Watson
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=E. plummerae
|authority=S. Watson
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum;Euphorbia macropus
|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 macropus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 241
|treatment_page=page 248
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, with thick, globose to elongated tubers, 2–8 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, branched, 10–45(–60) cm, glabrous, puberulent, or densely hirsute to setose, often with 2-layered indumentum of long hairs intermixed with short hairs. <b>Leaves</b> usually opposite, occasionally whorled distally, or rarely with 1–2 alternate leaves; stipules 0.1–0.2 mm; petiole 0–18 mm, hirsute, sericeous, or strigose; blade linear to ovate or almost orbiculate, 6–54 × 2–19 mm, base rounded to attenuate, margins entire, occasionally ciliate with stiff recurved hairs, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces usually hirsute, sericeous, or strigose, occasionally glabrous adaxially; venation conspicuous. <b>Cyathia</b> in weakly-defined terminal dichasia; peduncle 1.4–5.8 mm, glabrous. <b>Involucre</b> obconic to campanulate, 1.1–1.4 × 0.5–1.5 mm, glabrous or strigillose; glands 4–5, greenish, oblong, 0.2 × 0.4–0.5 mm; appendages usually yellowish or green, rarely dark purple, ovate, flabellate, semiorbiculate, or oblong, 0.3–0.9 × 0.4–1.1 mm, usually entire. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 10–15. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous, sericeous, or strigillose; styles 0.4–0.6 mm, 2-fid 1/2 length. <b>Capsules</b> oblate, 2.3–3 × 3.1–4.2 mm, glabrous, sericeous, or strigillose; columella 1.6–2.1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> black to light brown, broadly ovoid to subglobose, rounded in cross section, 1.5–2.3 × 1.4–1.8 mm, smooth or with low rounded tubercles; caruncle absent.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Stream banks and rocky slopes in pine-oak woodlands, sometimes with juniper, Douglas fir-pine forests.
|elevation=1500–2200m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala;Honduras).
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia macropus</i> is a widespread and common Mexican species just barely entering the flora area in southeastern Arizona, where most of the collections are from the Huachuca Mountains.</p>
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name=Euphorbia macropus
|author=
|authority=(Klotzsch & Garcke) Boissier in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Euphorbia biformis;E. plummerae
|basionyms=Anisophyllum macropus
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Stream banks and rocky slopes in pine-oak woodlands, sometimes with juniper, Douglas fir-pine forests.
|elevation=1500–2200m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala;Honduras).
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.
|publication year=1862
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_741.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum
|species=Euphorbia macropus
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