Species within a genus

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EUPHORBIA (G)
Spurge, Melkbos (Le)
Family: EUPHORBIACEAE

eu-, = well;
(good, well developed, normal, true)
phorbe, = pasture, food, fodder, forage; fuel.
The name honours, Euphorbus Musa, physician to King Juba, of Numidia (Mauritania) c. 47 B.C., was interested in these cactus-like plants supposedly for medicine – of which many are poisonous.
(LS, BL, M, K3)

Euphorbia marlothiana [Now E.caput-medusae] (La)

Location: (F)

For Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth (1855-1931);**
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)