Details of data

Country or region name	Taiwan, R.O.C.
Organism group	plant
Order name	Malpighiales
Family name	Euphorbiaceae
Species name	Euphorbia cyathophora
English common name	dwarf poinsettia, fire on the mountain, painted spurge, painted-leaf spurge, painted leaf, Mexican fireplant, painted euphobia, desert poinsettia, painted poinsettia, summer poinsettia, catalina
Substantially same species (synonym)	Euphorbia heterophylla N.Amer., E. heterophylla var. cyathophora (Murr.) Griseb., E. heterophylla var. barbellata, E. barbellata, E. graminifolia, E. havanensis, Poinsettia cyathophora (Murray) Klotzsch & Garcke
Year of invasion or detection
Native region	America
Situation of establishment	Category 8: Introduced time is not clear, but not distributed all over the country.
Taxonomic description
Expansion of distribution area
Environmental impact
Economic damage
Reproduction
Growth
Countermeasure
Writer's name and affiliation
Mitsuo Horita, NIAES

Reference : 2

1	Author	Chiang, M.Y.
	Year	2006
	Title	Naturalized alien plants in Taiwan: information based on publications.
	Magazine	Proceedings of International Workshop on Development of Database (APASD) for Biological Invasion, Taiwan Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute, Taichung, Taiwan.
	Volume
	Number
	Page	12-1-22
	Summary
	Key Word	alien plants, Taiwan
	PDF

2	Author	Chiang, M.Y., Hsu, L.M., Yuan, C.I. and Chiang, Y.J.
	Year	2003
	Title	Naturalization and ecology of the alien plants in Taiwan.
	Magazine	Proceedings of 2003 Pland Biodiversity Meeting on Conservation, Green Ecological Engineering and Sustainable Utilization, Lai, M.J. (ed.), Tunghai University, Taiwan.
	Volume
	Number
	Page	47-65
	Summary
	Key Word	alien plants, Taiwan
	PDF

Habitat : 2

No.	Habitat
1	roadside
2	weedy field/margin of field

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