Plant pubescence fairly dense, of short stiff hairs.
Euphorbia granulata var. granulata grows in gritty sandy soils in open, exposed places, often on disturbed ground at 50-1200 m. It is known from regions N1-3 of the Flora of Somalia and Egypt, Sudan (possibly South Sudan) and east through the Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan. Unfortunately, it is not possible tro retrieve global istribution maps of the varieties of Euphorbia granulata from GBIF. The global distribution map of the whole species is here..