Jatropha spicata Pax

spicata: arranged in a spike.

Small shrub, up to 1.25 m. Stems brittle, somewhat succulent, hairless. Leaves up to 14 × 10 cm, deeply palmately divided into 5-7; lobes narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to linear lanceolate, more or less deep green; margin with glandular teeth. Inflorescences terminal, laxly branched. Flowers unisexual, yellow to greenish-yellow. Fruit subcylindric, lobed, up to 12 × 9 mm, hairless, pale green, drying brown.

Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Limpopo, South Africa.