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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Euphorbia cuphosperma
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann) Boissier in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.
|place=15(2): 73. 1862
|year=1862
}}
|common_names=Hairy-fruit spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Euphorbia dentata var. cuphosperma
|authority=Engelmann in W. H. Emory
|publication_title=Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|publication_place=2(1): 190. 1859
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Poinsettia cuphosperma
|authority=(Engelmann) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Poinsettia;Euphorbia cuphosperma
|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. Poinsettia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia cuphosperma]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 318
|treatment_page=page 319
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, with taproot. <b>Stems</b> erect, 13–20 cm, both pilose to villous and densely strigillose; branches ± straight. <b>Leaves</b> usually opposite, occasionally alternate at distal nodes; petiole 3–15 mm, pilose; blade narrowly to broadly elliptic, or lanceolate to ovate, 30–80 × 10–15 mm, base cuneate to rounded, margins coarsely crenate-dentate, strigose, revolute to nearly flat, apex broadly acute to acuminate, or obtuse, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial surface sparsely strigose-hirsute; venation pinnate, midvein prominent. <b>Cyathial</b> arrangement: terminal pleiochasial branches usually 3, occasionally reduced to congested cyme, 1–2-branched; pleiochasial bracts 2–4, often whorled, wholly green or paler green at base, similar in shape and size to distal leaves or slightly narrower; dichasial bracts highly reduced. <b>Cyathia</b>: peduncle 0.5–0.8 mm. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate to slightly cylindric, 2.3 × 1.2 mm, glabrous; involucral lobes divided into several linear, smooth lobes; gland 1, yellow-green, stipitate, clavate, 1–1.2 × 0.8–0.9 mm, opening bilabiate and oblong, glabrous; appendages absent. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 3–5. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary pilose; styles 1.2 mm, 2-fid nearly entire length. <b>Capsules</b> broadly ovoid, 2.2–3 × 1.9–2.7 mm, 3-lobed, pilose; columella 2–2.4 mm. <b>Seeds</b> gray-brown to pale gray, pyramidally ovoid, angular in cross section, 2.3–2.6 × 2.4–2.6 mm, coarsely tuberculate, tubercles in 2 transverse rows; caruncle 0.2–0.4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 56.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Open montane and canyon forests, pinyon-juniper forests, montane grasslands, stream beds, disturbed habitats.
|elevation=800–2000 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala).
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name=Euphorbia cuphosperma
|author=
|authority=(Engelmann) Boissier in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Poinsettia cuphosperma
|basionyms=Euphorbia dentata var. cuphosperma
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Open montane and canyon forests, pinyon-juniper forests, montane grasslands, stream beds, disturbed habitats.
|elevation=800–2000 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala).
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.
|publication year=1862
|special status=Weedy
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|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Poinsettia
|species=Euphorbia cuphosperma
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