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|accepted_name=Euphorbia rosescens
|accepted_authority=E. L. Bridges & Orzell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Lundellia
|place=5: 71, fig. 4. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|common_names=Rosy-pink or scrub spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Nummulariopsis;Euphorbia rosescens
|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 rosescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 238, 314
|treatment_page=page 316
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, with thickened rootstock. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, 15–45 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole indistinct, blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic, narrowly oblong, or obovate, 25–55 × 5–21 mm, thick and fleshy, base attenuate, apex acute or mucronulate; only midvein evident. <b>Cyathial</b> arrangement: terminal pleiochasial branches 3, 7–16 cm, 4–7 times 2-branched; pleiochasial bracts ovate to oblong, 17–31 × 13–14 mm, margins entire, apex acute, often also mucronulate; dichasial bracts ovate or lanceolate, 6–18 × 8–12 mm, margins entire, apex acute, often also mucronate; axillary cymose branches 1–2. <b>Cyathia</b>: peduncle 3.9–6.8 mm. <b>Involucre</b> obconic to campanulate, 2.4–3.6 × 2.5–3.6 mm, lobes ovate to oblong, 0.7–1 mm, ciliate; glands green to yellow, oblong or trapezoidal, 0.9–1.7 × 1.9–2.5 mm, distal margins crenulate-erose. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 25. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: mature gynophore not seen, styles connate 1/2 length, 3.3–3.6 mm. <b>Mature</b> capsules not seen. <b>Seeds</b> not seen.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–summer, rarely fall.
|habitat=Xeric oak and pine scrub, mostly on white sands, disturbed habitats.
|elevation=20–50 m.
|distribution=Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia rosescens</i> is a narrow-endemic, gap-specialist known only from the southern portion of the Lake Wales Ridge in Highlands County. Based on leaf characteristics, it appears to be most similar to <i>E. telephioides</i>.</p>
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name=Euphorbia rosescens
|author=
|authority=E. L. Bridges & Orzell
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–summer, rarely fall.
|habitat=Xeric oak and pine scrub, mostly on white sands, disturbed habitats.
|elevation=20–50 m.
|distribution=Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Lundellia
|publication year=2002
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_904.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Nummulariopsis
|species=Euphorbia rosescens
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