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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Euphorbia floridana
|accepted_authority=Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|place=401. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|common_names=Greater Florida spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Galarhoeus floridanus
|authority=(Chapman) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Nummulariopsis;Euphorbia floridana
|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. Nummulariopsis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia floridana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 238
|treatment_page=page 314
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, with slender to moderately thickened rootstock. <b>Stems</b> erect, 20–65 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole absent; blade linear to linear-elliptic or linear-lanceolate, 30–105 × 2–4(–7) mm, chartaceous, base attenuate, rounded, or nearly truncate, apex acute; only midvein evident. <b>Cyathial</b> arrangement: terminal pleiochasial branches 3–5, 3–16 cm, 3–5(–7) times 2-branched; pleiochasial bracts linear-lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 19–55 × 4–12 mm, margins entire, apex acute or acuminate; dichasial bracts usually ovate, lanceolate, or oblong, rarely deltate, 8–21 × 4–14 mm, margins entire, apex acute, acuminate, or rounded with mucronate tip; axillary cymose branches 1–3(–6). <b>Cyathia</b>: peduncle (except for that of 1st cyathium at base of pleiochasia) 2–5 mm (not exceeding dichasial bracts). <b>Involucre</b> campanulate or obconic, 1.6–3.3 × 1.8–3.1 mm, lobes ovate, 0.5–0.7 mm, ciliate, exceeded by glands; glands yellow-green, oblong to trapezoidal, 0.5–0.8 × 0.8–1.2 mm, distal margins deeply erose. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 20. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: gynophore exserted 2.9–5.3 mm, calyxlike lobes triangular, 0.3–0.7 mm; styles connate 1/3–1/4 length, 1.1–1.7 mm. <b>Capsules</b> oblate-ovoid, 4.6–5.5 × 8.9–9 mm, strongly 3-lobed; columella 3.4–4.2 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brown to blackish, depressed-globose, circular in cross section, 2.8–3 × 3.2–3.6 mm, smooth, base flattened, with punctiform depressions, apex flattened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Xeric pine-oak sandhills, pine scrub, sandy soils.
|elevation=20–80 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Euphorbia floridana
|author=
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Galarhoeus floridanus
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Xeric pine-oak sandhills, pine scrub, sandy soils.
|elevation=20–80 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Nummulariopsis
|species=Euphorbia floridana
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