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|accepted_name=Euphorbia golondrina
|accepted_authority=L. C. Wheeler
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|place=53: 8. 1940
|year=1940
}}
|common_names=Canyon or swallow spurge;Boquillas sandmat
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chamaesyce golondrina
|authority=(L. C. Wheeler) Shinners
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum;Euphorbia golondrina
|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 golondrina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 258, 270
|treatment_page=page 269
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, with slender taproot. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, 5–35 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> opposite; stipules distinct, subulate, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous; petiole 0.8–1 mm, glabrous; blade oblong, ovate-oblong, to narrowly elliptic-oblong, 5–11.5 × 1–4 mm, base asymmetric, cuneate to rounded, margins entire, thickened and often revolute on drying, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous; only midvein conspicuous. <b>Cyathia</b> solitary at distal nodes; peduncle 0.9–1.5 mm. <b>Involucre</b> turbinate, 0.9–1.5 × 0.8–1.3 mm, glabrous; glands 4, occasionally rudimentary, red to purple, deeply concave, subcircular, 0.3–0.4 × 0.3–0.4 mm; appendages white, semilunate to slightly flabellate, 0.1–0.3 × 0.5–0.8 mm, distal margin entire. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 28–40. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous; styles 0.3–0.4 mm, 2-fid nearly entire length. <b>Capsules</b> broadly ovoid, 1.7–2 × 1.5–1.6 mm, glabrous; columella 1.4–1.7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> narrowly pyramidal-ovoid, 4-angled in cross section, 1.3–1.5 × 0.6–0.7 mm, with very faint transverse ridges or wrinkles.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Deep, sandy riverbanks.
|elevation=600 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia golondrina</i> was first collected on a sandy riverbank at the entrance of Boquillas Canyon on the Texas/Mexico border, and the species appears to be restricted to the vicinity of the Rio Grande in western Texas and northern Mexico. Aside from the type locality at Boquillas Canyon, <i>E. golondrina</i> has been documented from additional locations along the Rio Grande in Brewster, Hudspeth, and Presidio counties in Texas and from northern Coahuila and Chihuahua, Mexico. Phylogenetic data place <i>E. golondrina</i> in a clade of primarily Chihuahuan desert annual and perennial herbaceous species (for example, <i>E. chaetocalyx</i>, <i>E. fendleri</i>, <i>E. perennans</i>, <i>E. simulans</i>, E. spurca, and E theriaca; Y. Yang and P. E. Berry 2011). <i>Euphorbia golondrina</i> is superficially similar to other glabrous species in western Texas (for example, <i>E. micromera</i> and <i>E. theriaca</i>), but <i>E. micromera</i> and <i>E. theriaca</i> either lack involucral gland appendages or have shorter, triangular appendages compared to the typical semilunate appendages in <i>E. golondrina</i>.</p>
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name=Euphorbia golondrina
|authority=L. C. Wheeler
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Chamaesyce golondrina
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Deep, sandy riverbanks.
|elevation=600 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|publication year=1940
|special status=Conservation concern
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_777.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum
|species=Euphorbia golondrina
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