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|accepted_name=Euphorbia telephioides
|accepted_authority=Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|place=402. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|common_names=Telephus spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Galarhoeus telephioides
|authority=(Chapman) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Nummulariopsis;Euphorbia telephioides
|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 telephioides]]</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, 20–30 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole usually absent or indistinct, occasionally to 5.5 mm, blade elliptic or obovate, 31–60 × 7–32 mm, thick and fleshy, base attenuate or cuneate, apex acute, obtuse, or mucronate; venation pinnate with 8–13 lateral veins, these sometimes obscure and only midvein evident. <b>Cyathial</b> arrangement: terminal pleiochasial branches (2–)3, 5–13 cm, 3–7 times 2-branched; pleiochasial bracts ovate to oblong, 17–31 × 8–15 mm, margins entire, apex acute or obtuse; dichasial bracts ovate, 5–19 × 3–9 mm, margins entire, apex acute or obtuse; axillary cymose branches 1–5. <b>Cyathia</b>: peduncle 3–9.2 mm (often exceeding subcyathial leaves). <b>Involucre</b> campanulate, 1.3–2.3 × 1.6–2.5 mm, lobes ovate to oblong, 0.5–0.7 mm, ciliate; glands purple-red, oblong to trapezoidal, 0.5–0.7 × 0.8–1.2 mm, distal margins entire or crenulate. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 25–30. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: gynophore exserted 1.9–3.2 mm, calyxlike lobes triangular, 0.2–0.7 mm; styles connate 1/4 length, 1.3–1.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid-oblate, 5.2–5.6 × 6.6–8.3 mm, 3-lobed; columella 3.9–4.1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> blackish to dark brown, ovoid to globose-ovoid, circular in cross section, 3.2–3.5 × 2.6–3.1 mm, smooth, base rounded to flattened, apex rounded, occasionally with low point.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Scrubby pine flatwoods, grasslands, disturbed areas, often in sandy soils.
|elevation=0–20 m.
|distribution=Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia telephioides</i>, federally listed as threatened, is known only from Bay, Franklin, and Gulf counties in the Apalachicola region of the east-central Florida panhandle.</p>
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name=Euphorbia telephioides
|author=
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Galarhoeus telephioides
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Scrubby pine flatwoods, grasslands, disturbed areas, often in sandy soils.
|elevation=0–20 m.
|distribution=Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_138.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Nummulariopsis
|species=Euphorbia telephioides
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