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Jepson Online, Kearny and Peebles 1979

Common Name: Hall's shrubby-spurge Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Shrub General: Rigid, divaricately branching shrubs to 2 m high; twigs sparsely short-strigose, glabrous in age. Leaves: Leaves small, generally alternate and clustered on short, lateral twigs; blades 2--12 mm long, oblanceolate to obovate, with entire margins, and obtuse to rounded tips. Flowers: Staminate inflorescence cymose, with 1--5 flowers clustered on short, lateral twigs; sepals on staminate flowers 4--6, more or less round; stamens 4--8, filaments 1.5--2.5 mm, glabrous. Pistillate Flowers solitary on the short lateral branchlets, on short, thick pedicels to 3 mm long; pistillate sepals generally 5, 2--5 mm, ovate to deltate; ovary generally 3-lobed, dense-, fine-gray-tomentose. Fruits: Fruit: 8--12 mm, 6--10 mm wide, fine-tomentose. Ecology: Rocky slopes, washes; Elevation: < 1200 m. Distribution: s CA, w AZ Notes: Formerly placed in Euphorbiaceae. Ethnobotany: Unknown Synonyms: Halliophytum fasciculatum var. hallii, Halliophytum hallii, Securinega hallii, Tetracoccus hallii Editor: AHazelton 2016