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Phyllanthus hutchinsonianus

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Type of Phyllanthus hutchinsonianus S.Moore [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Type of Phyllanthus zornioides Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Type of Phyllanthus hutchinsonianus S.Moore [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Type of Phyllanthus bernerianus Baill. ex Müll.Arg. var. glaber Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Phyllanthus hutchinsonianus S.Moore [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Phyllanthus zornioides
  • Phyllanthus boehmii
  • Phyllanthus bernerianus
  • Phyllanthus hutchinsonianus

Flora

Entry for PHYLLANTHUS hutchinsonianus S. Moore [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
PHYLLANTHUS hutchinsonianus S. Moore [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 192.
PHYLLANTHUS rotundifolius Baker f. var. leucocalyx [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. ser. 2, iv. 38, not of Müll. Arg.
Information
A small shrub; flowering branchlets produced singly, angular or very slightly winged, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, rounded to a minute point, rounded at the base, 3–4 lin. long, 1 3/4–2 1/4 lin. broad, green, very thin, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves about 3 on each side, faint below, invisible above, margins slightly recurved; petiole 1/4 lin. long, glabrous; stipules ovate-triangular, acute, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, membranous, brown, glabrous. Flowers monœcious. Male flowers: Sepals 5–6, obovate, rounded at the apex, about 1/2 lin. long, glabrous. Disk-glands 5–6, rounded, smooth. Stamens 2–3; filaments connate to the top; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers: Sepals oblong-ellipsoid, rounded at the apex, 1 1/4 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, with membranous margins, glabrous. Disk flat, entire or slightly undulately lobed, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, 6-lobed, glabrous; styles erect, bilobed to below the middle, lobes not swollen at the tips. Capsule about 1 1/2 lin. in diam. Seeds trigonous, convex on the back, 1 lin. long, with about 7 lines on the back.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains; Ubena, Goetze, 794!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Gazaland; Chimanimani Mountains, Swynnerton, 1524!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Mlanji, Whyte! Mahon! Adamson, 354! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 987!
Notes
Since Mr. Moore described this species I have associated with it several other specimens which appear to me to be the same. They show variation in the number of sepals (5–6) and stamens (2–3), a variation which appears to occur but rarely in the genus, so far as I can judge after dissecting numerous examples of many of the species.

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