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|accepted_name=Euphorbia texana
|accepted_authority=Boissier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cent. Euphorb.,
|place=30. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|common_names=Texas spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Euphorbia dictyosperma var. leiococca
|authority=Engelmann
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=E. leiococca
|authority=(Engelmann) Norton
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia subg. Esula;Euphorbia texana
|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>subgenus</small>[[Euphorbia subg. Esula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia texana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 296
|treatment_page=page 311
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, with taproot. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, unbranched or branched, sometimes extensively at crown, 7–20 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0–0.2 mm; blade oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 8–15 × 2–5 mm, base usually attenuate, occasionally cuneate, margins crenulate distally, apex rounded to obtuse, bluntly mucronate, surfaces glabrous; venation pinnate, midvein prominent. <b>Cyathial</b> arrangement: terminal pleiochasial branches 3, each 1–3 times 2-branched; pleiochasial bracts similar in shape and size to distal leaves; dichasial bracts distinct, elliptic to ovate, base acute to ± truncate, margins crenate distally, apex obtuse to rounded and mucronate; axillary cymose branches 1–3. <b>Cyathia</b>: peduncle 0.3–0.6 mm. <b>Involucre</b> hemispheric, 0.5–0.9 × 0.6–1 mm, glabrous; glands (4–)5, elongate reniform, 0.1–0.3 × 0.3–0.5 mm; horns absent. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 5. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous; styles 0.8–1 mm, 2-fid. <b>Capsules</b> depressed-globose, 1.6–2 × 2.5–3 mm, 3-lobed; cocci rounded, smooth, glabrous; columella 1.2–1.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brownish black, globose-lenticular, 1.4–1.5 × 1.3–1.4 mm, finely reticulate or areolate with distinct line on back; caruncle low conic, 0.4 × 0.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring.
|habitat=Open ground, prairies.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=La.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia texana</i> is related to <i>E. alta</i> and <i>E. spathulata</i>, but differs from both of those species in its smooth capsules. It is endemic to southeastern Texas and adjacent Louisiana.</p>
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name=Euphorbia texana
|author=
|authority=Boissier
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Euphorbia dictyosperma var. leiococca;E. leiococca
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring.
|habitat=Open ground, prairies.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=La.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Cent. Euphorb.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_726.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|subgenus=Euphorbia subg. Esula
|species=Euphorbia texana
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