EUPHORBIA GILBERTIANA

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 after Michael George Gilbert, the botanist who among others have described Euphorbia gymnocalycioides. Photo by Indra Susandi.