Chamaesyce buxifolia (Lam.) Small
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Euphorbiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Low, generally erect, glabrous, shrubby, fleshy, 2-5 dm. high; branches usually many. Leaves glabrous, thick, wrinkling in drying, ovate or broadly oblong, 8-12 mm. long, obliquely subcordate at the base, acutish, margin entire, involute; petioles about 1 mm.; involucres campanulate, about 1.5 nun., as long as the peduncles or shorter; glands transversely oblong; appendages a mere whitish bordering line; capsule broad, glabrous; seeds white, ovoid-quadrangular, somewhat apiculate, 1.2 X 1 mm., the angles very blunt; facets very shallowly broad-pitted by indistinct and irregularly anastomosing transverse ridges.
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Distribution
Maritime sands throughout the archipelago: Bermuda; Florida: coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. (Coast Spurge).
Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America| Mexico North America|