EUPHORBIA ACTINOCLADA

This member of the Euphorbiaceae family was given this name by Susan Carter in 1982. It is found in southern Ethiopia, northern Kenya and south-western Somalia, growing in a well drained gravel soil with some water and lots of sun. The caudex can grow from two to five centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to fifteen centimetres in height. The flowers are reddish. The genera is named after Euphorbos, the Greek physician of King Juba II of Numidia. The species is named from Greek, akinos, 'ray, klados', for the branch.