West Indian Spurge

Description

Euphorbia oerstediana is a perennial. Euphorbia oerstediana was already described and the name validly published by Johann Friedrich Klotzsch and Christian August Friedrich Garcke. It was Pierre Edmond Boissier, however, who reclassified it into todays valid botanical systematics in 1862. Euphorbia oerstediana is a species in the genus Euphorbia which contains approximately 2140 to 2233 species and belongs to the family of the Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family). The type species of the genus is Euphorbia antiquorum. Euphorbia oerstediana has simple leaves. The leaves are elliptic, entire and petiolate. Euphorbia oerstediana produces cymes of light-green cyathiae.