EUPHORBIA GYMNOCALYCIOIDES

This member of the Euphorbiaceae family was given this name by Michael George Gilbert and Susan Carter in 1984. It is found growing in a well drained soil in Ethiopia. It preferring a bit shadow and only little to some water. The plant can grow up to teen centimetres height with a diameter of twelve centimetres. The flowers are light brown.

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 for the resemblance with the genera Gymnocalycium. I might not consider this to be a caudiciform, but here it is anyway.