Jatropha rivae

Jatropha rivae is a species of flowering plant found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. It is a densely-branched shrub that grows up to 2 meters tall, with usually purplish-brown young twigs, in desert and dry shrub land biomes. It is locally codominant in Acacia-Commiphora bushland on alluvial soils and deep sands, in gypsaceous soils, in stony places on limestone, and in Acacia-Commiphora-Boswellia bushland. It grows from an altitude of 0 meters to an altitude of 1150 meters.[1][2]