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Euphorbia stoddartii is a low, creeping perennial herb from the western Indian Ocean islands, forming thin horizontal stems with small fleshy leaves. It is a coastal, sand-loving plant rarely grown in gardens, so care is mostly inferred from its native conditions.
Euphorbia stoddartii is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, native the western Indian Ocean, where it is found on Aldabra, the Chagos Archipelago, and Agaléga in Mauritius. First formally described in 1978, it is named after David R. Stoddart. It is a green to purple perennial herb with a highly variable morphology. It grows thin stems that sprout from a common root crown and spread horizontally along the ground. It has oval-shaped, fleshy leaves 3 mm × 1 mm–2 mm (0.1 in × 0.04 in–0.08 in) in size. It is a common and widespread plant where it occurs, especially on sandy soils.
Euphorbia stoddartii is endemic to the western Indian Ocean, where it occurs on a number of widely separated archipelagos. It is known from the Aldabra Group in the Seychelles, Agaléga in Mauritius, and Salomon Atoll in the Chagos Archipelago, administered as part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. It is also known from the Glorioso Islands, a French dependency in the Comoro Islands. It may also be native to the Amirante Islands and other western Indian Ocean islands.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Euphorbia stoddartii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
