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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Euphorbia eriantha
|accepted_authority=Bentham
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Voy. Sulphur,
|place=51. 1844
|year=1844
}}
|common_names=Beetle spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Poinsettia;Euphorbia eriantha
|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. Poinsettia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia eriantha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 239, 240, 317, 318
|treatment_page=page 321
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, with slender to thick, woody taproot. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, 10–75 cm, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs (especially near nodes); branches arcuate. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; petiole 0.1–0.4 mm, often indistinct, glabrous or sparsely pilose to shortly sericeous; blade linear to linear-elliptic, 20–55 × 1–3 mm, base attenuate, margins entire or with 2–4 inconspicuous teeth near apex, apex acute, abaxial surface pilose to shortly sericeous, adaxial surface usually glabrous, rarely pilose to shortly sericeous; only midvein conspicuous. <b>Cyathial</b> arrangement: terminal cymose branches 1, 1–2-branched; pleiochasial bracts 2–3, opposite or whorled, wholly green, similar in shape and size to distal leaves; dichasial bracts similar in shape to distal leaves or often highly reduced. <b>Cyathia</b>: peduncle 1–1.9 mm. <b>Involucre</b> obconic, 2.1–2.6 × 1.3–2 mm, canescent; involucral lobes triangular, obscured by hairs; glands (2–)4–5, green to maroon, color often obscured by hairs, sessile and broadly attached, 0.5–0.6 × 0.5–0.6 mm, opening oblong to nearly circular, densely canescent; appendages petaloid, whitish, hoodlike, incurved and covering glands, 0.5–1 × 0.5–0.8 mm, divided into 5–12 fringed, subulate segments, densely canescent. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 20–25. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary canescent; styles 0.9–1.5 mm, unbranched. <b>Capsules</b> oblong to ovoid, 4.4–4.9 × 3.5–4.1 mm, canescent (often with interspersed glabrescent patches); columella 3.5–3.9 mm. <b>Seeds</b> mottled black and gray or light brown, oblong or slightly ovoid, dorsiventrally compressed in cross section, 2.8–4.1 × 2–2.4 mm, irregularly pitted and tuberculate; caruncle 0.4–0.8 × 0.6–1.1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round in response to sufficient rainfall.
|habitat=Desert scrub on rocky slopes and along washes.
|elevation=60–800 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;San Luis Potosí;Sonora).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Euphorbia eriantha
|author=
|authority=Bentham
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round in response to sufficient rainfall.
|habitat=Desert scrub on rocky slopes and along washes.
|elevation=60–800 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;San Luis Potosí;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Voy. Sulphur,
|publication year=1844
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Poinsettia
|species=Euphorbia eriantha
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