Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Euphorbia viminea
palo café
A striking fountain-shaped woody shrub with trailing thin coffee-coloured branches. The small grey-green leaves are shaped like needles and produce a white latex when broken.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Euphorbiales
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Euphorbia
Species
viminea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Chamaesyce viminea (Hook. f.) D.G. Burch., Euphorbia viminea var. abingdonensis B.L. Rob. & Greenm., E. viminea f. abingdonensis B.L. Rob. & Greenm., E. viminea f. albemarlensis B.L. Rob. & Greenm., E. viminea f. barringtonensis B.L. Rob. & Greenm., E. viminea f. carolensis B.L. Rob. & Greenm., E. viminea f. castellana B.L. Rob. & Greenm., E. viminea f. chathamensis B.L. Rob. & Greenm., E. viminea f. jacobensis B.L. Rob. & Greenm., E. viminea f. jervensis B.L. Rob. & Greenm. fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden (2010)
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
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- Andersson, N.J. (1861-1862) Ueber Die Vegetation der Galapagos-Inseln Linnaea 31: 571-631
- Andersson, N.J. (1858) Flora of the Galápagos Islands (translated from Swedish). Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academien Botanik 1: 3-34
- Hooker, J.D. (1847) An Enumeration of the Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20: 163-233.
- Robinson, B.L. (1902) Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapgaos Islands. Proc. Amer. Acad. 38(4): 78-270.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Svenson, H.K. (1935) Plants of the Astor Expedition, 1930 (Galapagos and Cocos Islands). Am. J. Bot. 22: 208-277.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Euphorbia viminea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15862. Accessed 11 July 2026.