Euphorbia roseaRetz.

WFO wfo-0000964463 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Euphorbia rosea, photographed by Aravinth
fig. a Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-10 / obs. 59437650
Euphorbia rosea, photographed by Aravinth
fig. b Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59437635
Euphorbia rosea, photographed by Aravinth
fig. c Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53029958
Euphorbia rosea, photographed by Aravinth
fig. d Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53029966

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Euphorbia rosea is native: Afghanistan, Iran, India, Laccadive Is., Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam AfghanistanIranIndiaNepalPakistanSri LankaVietnam Laccadive Is.
Native distribution of Euphorbia rosea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Laccadive Is. LDV
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
Vietnam VIE
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anisophyllum roseum (Retz.) Haw.
  • Chamaesyce auricularia (Boiss.) V.S.Raju & P.N.Rao
  • Chamaesyce rosea (Retz.) G.L.Webster
  • Euphorbia auricularia Boiss.
  • Euphorbia rosea f. auricularia (Boiss.) Gamble
  • Euphorbia satureioides Lam.
  • Tithymalus rosea (Retz.) Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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