Similar to Euphorbia granulate, but plant completely glabrous, with the leaf-blades narrowly obliquely falcate-oblong, 2-13 x 1-4 mm, usually minutely denticulate at or towards the apex, cyathia in the axils of leaves on dense lateral shoots and appearing as if ± clustered, glandular appendages minute or 0, and seeds ovoid, shallowly rugulose or almost smooth.

Fl. & Fr. Per.: More or less continuously throughout the year.

Holotype: India, Delhi, 22 Oct. 1874, C.B. Clarke 23310A (K).

Distribution: Afghanistan, N.W. India. On Sandy soil, clay soil, pebbly ground, in fields and open waste places with Cressa cretica: near sea-level to 7800'/2380 m.