Euphorbia maculata

Derivation of the botanical name:

Euphorbia, Εὔφορβος, Euphorbus, after the Numidian physician Euphorbus, physician to Juba II, King of Numidia and Mauretania, about the end of the first century BCE. In classical Greek ευφορβοσ (euphorbos) means well fed.

maculata, maculo, to spot, stain, pollute, defile; spotted.
nutans, nodding.
Chamaesyce, Greek, chamai, on the ground, lowly, creeping; sykon, “fig” (an oblique reference to the shape of the capsules).

• The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
• The standard author abbreviation Lag. is used to indicate Mariano Lagasca y Segura (1776 – 1839, a Spanish botanist, writer and doctor.

Inflorescence definition Cyathium: a cup-shaped involucre bearing several minute stamens (male flowers) and a pistillate flower consisting of an ovary on a long stalk (pedicel). The rim of the cyathium often bears one or more nectar glands and petaloid appendages; this feature is present in every species of the genus Euphorbia but nowhere else in the plantkingdom.