Euphorbiaceae

Flowers unisexual and arranged within a cup-shaped collection of connate bracts, a number of male flowers (single stamens) surrounding a solitary female flower, i.e. a cyathium (Fig. 26) Euphorbiaceae
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White latex present
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Styles 3
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Leaves simple
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Stipules present, distinct, interpetiolar Chamaesyce
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Leaves 4–8 mm long, elliptic, ovate or ovate-oblong, opposite, in 2 ranks, often bluish green. Plants mostly less than 30 cm across. Cyathia solitary, axillary. Involucral glands red with a pink or white appendage. Fruit 2 mm long
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Leaves 1–4 cm long, ovate to oblong