EUPHORBIA HADRAMAUTICA

This member of the Euphorbiaceae family was given this name by John Gilbert Baker in 1894. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Oman, Socotra, Somalia and Yemen, growing in a well drained soil with little water and not that much sun, as is is found in the shade of rocks. The caudex can grow to two and a half centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to ten centimetres in height. The flowers are greenish.

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 is named after Hadhramaut, a region in South Arabia, located mostly in present-day eastern Yemen.