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Phyllanthus burchellii

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Name

Identification
Phyllanthus burchellii Müll.Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Phyllanthus garipensis E.Mey [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Phyllanthus tenellus
  • Phyllanthus garipensis
  • Phyllanthus burchellii

Flora

Entry for Phyllanthus parvulus var. parvulus [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Phyllanthus humilis [family EUPHORBIACEAE], sensu Hutchinson in F.C. 5, 2: 392 (1920). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal: 299 (1932), non Pax.
Phyllanthus burchellii [family EUPHORBIACEAE], sensu Bremekamp & Obermeyer in Ann. Transvaal Mus. 16, 3: 421 (1935), non Müll. Arg.
Phyllanthus seydelii Jean F. Brunel [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Phyllanthus Afr. Intertrop. Mad.: 313 (1987), unpublished thesis.
Phyllanthus parvulus var. parvulus [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Phyllanthus tenellus var. scabrifolius Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnaea 32: 7 (1863). Type as above.
Phyllanthus tenellus var. parvulus Sond. Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 339 (1866).
Phyllanthus mozambicensis Gandoger [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 66: 287 (1920). Type: Mozambique, Maputo, Ponta Vermelha, iv.1893, Quintas 59 (COI, holotype).
Information
Lateral shoots finely scabrid to papillose-puberulous.
Habitat
On Kalahari Sands in low rainfall dry deciduous woodlands and short grasslands with scattered trees and shrubs, and in mopane woodlands on sand, also in pans on dry sandy river banks amongst stones, and on limestone outcrops
Altitude range
400–1525 m.
1525
400
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Mwenezi Distr., Malangwe R., fr. 6.v.1958, Drummond 5615 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Odzi, o. fr. 28.v.1936, Eyles 8625 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Gweru Distr., 29 km SSE of Kwe Kwe (Que Que), fr. 3.ii.1966, Biegel 878 (K; MO; SRGH).Botswana SE Orapa, fr. 16.iv.1971, Pope 312 (K; PRE; SRGH).Botswana SW Kaotwe, fr. 8.iv.1930, van Son in Tvl. Mus. Herb. 28836 (BM; K; PRE).Mozambique M Marracuene, fr. 3.x.1957, Barbosa & Lemos in Barbosa 7966 (COI; K; LMA).Zimbabwe W Maitengwe river banks and islands, fr. recd. v.1883, Holub s.n. (K).Botswana N Aha Hills, fr. 13.iii.1965, Wild & Drummond 6956 (K; LISC; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Namibia
South Africa (Transvaal)
Notes
Vernacular name as recorded in specimen data: “nkanga” (Diriko).

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