Euphorbia discoidalis Chapman. Subgenus: Chamaescye. Section: Alectoroctonum. Common name: Summer Spurge. Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, shortleaf pine woodlands in the Interior Highlands. Distribution: E. and c. GA (or e. SC?) south and west to Panhandle FL and e. TX; disjunct in Ouachita Mountains of sw. AR (Theo Witsell, pers. comm., 2019).
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Taxonomy Comments: Park (1998) included in the synonymy of E. discoidalis the entity E. corollata var. angustifolia Elliott, which has a stated type locality in e. SC.
Synonymy ⓘ: = Fl2, FNA12, K4, WH3, Huft (1979), Park (1998); = n/a — RAB; = Tithymalopsis discoidalis (Chapm.) Small — S, S13; < Euphorbia corollata L. var. corollata — Govaerts, Frodin, & Radcliffe-Smith (2000). Basionym: Euphorbia discoidalis Chapm. 1860
Links to other floras: = Euphorbia discoidalis - FNA12
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Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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