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|accepted_name=Euphorbia mendezii
|accepted_authority=Boissier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cent. Euphorb.,
|place=15. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|common_names=Mendez’s sandmat
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chamaesyce mendezii
|authority=(Boissier) Millspaugh
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum;Euphorbia mendezii
|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. Anisophyllum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia mendezii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 253
|treatment_page=page 277
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, with slender taproot. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, often mat-forming, 8–35 cm, usually villous along margins, lower surface glabrous, upper surface usually strigillose to puberulent, rarely glabrous or glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> opposite; stipules usually distinct or connate basally, rarely completely connate, deltate, laciniate, glabrous or pilose (lower side), forming narrow deltate scale, sometimes apically 2-fid or laciniate, glabrous (upper side), 0.4–1.9 mm; petiole 0.3–1.2 mm, glabrous, pilose or villous; blade oblong to obovate, 4–12 × 2–7 mm, base asymmetric, one side attenuate, cuneate or rounded, other rounded or cordate, margins serrulate at least distally, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely sericeous, pilose or villous; 3-veined at base. <b>Cyathia</b> solitary at nodes or on short, congested axillary branches; peduncle 0.9–2.5 mm. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate or obconic, 0.8–1 × 0.7–0.8 mm, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely pilose toward apex; glands 4, pink, reniform, oblong or elliptic, 0.1 × 0.2–0.3 mm; appendages absent or white to pink, oblong, flabellate or forming narrow rim around edge of gland, 0.1–0.3 × 0.3–0.6 mm, distal margin usually entire, sometimes lobed. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 6–15. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary usually pilose or villous with hairs concentrated along keels, rarely glabrous; styles 0.2–0.3 mm, 2-fid 1/2 length. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, 1.2–1.6 × 1.2–1.4 mm, usually pilose or villous with hairs concentrated along keels, often glabrous in between, very rarely completely glabrous; columella 1–1.4 mm. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown to orange or gray-pink, narrowly ovoid, 4-angled in cross section, 0.9–1.2 × 0.5–0.6 mm, almost smooth or with 5–7 faint transverse ridges that do not pass through abaxial keel.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia mendezii</i> is a common weed distributed widely throughout Mexico and Central America. Within the flora area the species is known only from southern Florida.</p>
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name=Euphorbia mendezii
|authority=Boissier
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Chamaesyce mendezii
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Cent. Euphorb.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_234.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum
|species=Euphorbia mendezii
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