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key 1; family Euphorbiaceae
subfamily Euphorbioideae
Chamaesyce hypericifolia (L.) Millsp.
Herb
with milky sap; stems glabrous, erect, often red; leaves opposite,
simple, oblong-elliptic, margin toothed; flowers minute, clustered
into cup-like cyathia; cyathia borne solitary in the leaf axil
and in dense, nearly leafless glomerules constituting lateral
branches; cyathial appendages petal-like, 4, white to pink, each
with a minute gland at the base; capsules glabrous, generally
widest below the middle.
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Herb
with milky sap; stems glabrous, erect, often red; leaves opposite,
simple, oblong-elliptic, margin toothed; flowers minute, clustered
into cup-like cyathia; cyathia borne solitary in the leaf axil
and in dense, nearly leafless glomerules constituting lateral
branches; cyathial appendages petal-like, 4, white to pink, each
with a minute gland at the base; capsules glabrous, generally
widest below the middle.
