Calycopeplus paucifolius

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|genus = Calycopeplus

|species = paucifolius

|authority = (Klotzsch) Baill.{{APNI2 | name = Calycopeplus paucifolius (Klotzsch) Baill. | id = 101743}}

|synonyms = Ephedra arborea F.Muell.

Calycopeplus ephedroides Planch.

Calycopeplus helmsii F.Muell. & Tate

Euphorbia paucifolia Klotzsch

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Calycopeplus paucifolius is an erect shrub species in the family Euphorbiaceae.{{FloraBase|id=16492

|name=Calycopeplus paucifolius (Klotzsch) Baill.}} It is found in South Australia & Western Australia.{{Cite web|title=Calycopeplus paucifolius (Klotzsch) Baill. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:340344-1|access-date=2020-12-01|website=Plants of the World Online|language=en}}

Calycopeplus paucifolius is a broom-like shrub, growing from 60 cm to 5 m high. Its flowers are green-white, and seen from September to December on hillslopes and granite outcrops, growing on stony loams, sands and sandy clays.

The species was first described as Euphorbia paucifolia in 1845 by Johann Friedrich Klotzsch,{{cite journal|author=Klotzsch, J.F. |editor=Lehmann, J.G.C. |date=1845|title= Euphorbiaceae |journal=Plantae Preissianae|volume= 1|issue=2|pages= 174|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/498347}} but was transferred to the genus, Calycopeplus, by Henri Ernest Baillon in 1866.{{cite journal|author=Baillon, H.E. |date=1866|title= Euphorbiacees Australiennes|journal= Adansonia|volume= 6|pages= 319|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6524605}}