EUPHORBIA BREVIRAMA

This member of the Euphorbiaceae family was given this name by Nicholas Edward Brown in 1915. It is found near Cape Good Hope, South Africa, growing in a well drained soil with little to some water and some to lots of sun. The swollen stem can grow to eight centimetres in diameter and fifteen centimetres in height. The flowers are yellow.

The genera name; Euphorbia dates back to the first century BC, where King Juba II of Mauritania used it in a reference to his doctor, Euphorbos, and that name was kept as a generic name by Carl von Linnaeus. The species name from Latin: brevi; 'short' and -rama; 'branches'.