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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Euphorbia carunculata
|accepted_authority=Waterfall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=50: 63. 1948
|year=1948
}}
|common_names=Sand-dune sandmat or spurge
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chamaesyce carunculata
|authority=(Waterfall) Shinners
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum;Euphorbia carunculata
|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 carunculata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 252, 257, 263
|treatment_page=page 262
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, with taproot. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, spreading and lanky or occasionally mat-forming, ± succulent, 70–150 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> opposite; stipules usually distinct, occasionally connate basally (primarily at distal nodes), usually divided into 2–5 subulate to subulate-filiform segments, occasionally forming narrow deltate segments (primarily at distal nodes), 0.8–1.8 mm, glabrous; petiole 3.1–6.3 mm, glabrous; blade ovate to elliptic-oblong, 5–26 × 4–12 mm, base subsymmetric to symmetric, rounded to cuneate, margins entire, apex usually mucronate, rarely acute or obtuse, surfaces glabrous; pinnately veined. <b>Cyathia</b> solitary at distal nodes; peduncle 1.4–3.6 mm. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate, 1.1–1.8 × 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous; glands 4, yellowish, sessile or short stipitate, circular to oblong, 0.5–0.7 × 0.5–0.8 mm; appendages white to yellowish, ovate to oblong, occasionally rudimentary, (0–)0.8–1.2 × 0.8–1.5 mm, distal margin entire. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 15–25. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous; styles 0.7–1 mm, 2-fid 1/2 length. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, 4.7–5.5(–6) × 3.6–5.1 mm, glabrous; columella 4.3–5.1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> grayish white to reddish brown mottled, bottle-shaped, strongly dorsiventrally compressed and weakly 3-angled in cross section, (2.8–)4.1–5.2 × 1.2–2(–3.4) mm, smooth; carunclelike structure linear, 0.4–0.5 × 0.1–0.2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sand dunes.
|elevation=400–1300 m.
|distribution=Kans.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia carunculata</i> has a highly localized and scattered distribution. The species is restricted to sand dunes and known from only a handful of localities throughout its relatively wide range. The seeds are unique in being bottle-shaped and strongly laterally compressed, and unlike other members of sect. Anisophyllum, there is a minute, linear, carunclelike protuberance at the hilum.</p>
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name=Euphorbia carunculata
|authority=Waterfall
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Chamaesyce carunculata
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sand dunes.
|elevation=400–1300 m.
|distribution=Kans.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1948
|special status=
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|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum
|species=Euphorbia carunculata
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