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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Euphorbia villifera
|accepted_authority=Scheele
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=22: 153. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|common_names=Hairy spurge
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chamaesyce stanfieldii
|authority=Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=C. villifera
|authority=(Scheele) Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Euphorbia stanfieldii
|authority=(Small) Cory
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=E. villifera var. nuda
|authority=Engelmann ex Boissier
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum;Euphorbia villifera
|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 villifera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 256, 257, 258
|treatment_page=page 293
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, with slender taproot or thickened, woody rootstock. <b>Stems</b> usually erect to ascending, rarely prostrate to decumbent, 10–30 cm, papillate, usually villous, sometimes glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> opposite; stipules distinct, filiform, usually undivided, rarely divided into 2–3 segments), 0.3–0.7 mm, glabrous, papillate; petiole 0.6–1.8 mm, usually villous, rarely glabrous; blade ovate, 3–12 × 2–10 mm, base asymmetric, rounded to slightly cordate, margins entire or serrulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces usually villous, rarely glabrous; only midvein conspicuous. <b>Cyathia</b> solitary at distal nodes; peduncles 0–1.8 mm. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate, 0.7–0.9 × 0.6–1 mm, glabrous or pilose; glands 4, pink, oval, oblong, or trapezoidal, 0.1–0.2 × 0.2 mm; appendages white to pink, flabellate, oblong, ovate, or nearly rectangular, 0.2–0.4 × 0.2–0.6 mm, distal margin entire. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 10–25. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous; styles 0.3–0.5 mm, 2-fid 1/2 to nearly entire length. <b>Capsules</b> oblate-deltoid, cocci often elongated and terminating in an empty portion, 1.5–2 × 2.1–3.1 mm, glabrous; columella 0.9–1.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> gray-brown to red-brown, ovoid-oblong, weakly 4-angled in cross section, 1–1.4 × 0.6–0.8 mm, smooth, faintly rugose, or with inconspicuous transverse ridges.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting early spring–early winter.
|habitat=Riparian forests with walnuts and sycamores, juniper woodlands, pine-oak woodlands, mostly on limestone substrates.
|elevation=100–1400 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p>Although <i>Euphorbia villifera</i> has been reported from New Mexico (W. C. Martin and C. R. Hutchins 1980), no vouchers to verify its presence there were located. In Texas, <i>E. villifera</i> is known from the Edwards Plateau westward into the trans-Pecos region.</p>
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name=Euphorbia villifera
|authority=Scheele
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Chamaesyce stanfieldii;C. villifera;Euphorbia stanfieldii;E. villifera var. nuda
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting early spring–early winter.
|habitat=Riparian forests with walnuts and sycamores, juniper woodlands, pine-oak woodlands, mostly on limestone substrates.
|elevation=100–1400 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1849
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_951.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum
|species=Euphorbia villifera
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