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Phyllanthus incurvus

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Phyllanthus incurvus Thunb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2010 Phyllanthus longifolius Lam. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Phyllanthus longifolius
  • Phyllanthus incurvus
  • Phyllanthus heterophyllus

Flora

Entry for PHYLLANTHUS maderaspatensis Linn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
PHYLLANTHUS maderaspatensis Linn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 982;—Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 575; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & J. Roxb. iii. 654; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 180; Wight, Ic. t. 1895, fig. 3; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Pl. 233; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 311, and Fl. Austral. vi. 103; Müll. Arg. in Linnæa, xxxii. 19, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 362; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 349; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 292; Watt, Dict. Econ. Prod. India, vi. i. 221; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 1892, 360; Pax in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 282, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236; Trim. Handb. Fl. Ceylon, iv. 20; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 302; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 959; Prain, Bengal Pl. 935; Cooke, Fl. Bombay, ii. 586; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 192; Hutchinson in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. 722.
PHYLLANTHUS andrachnoides Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Sp. Pl. iv. 575.
PHYLLANTHUS cuneatus Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 65.
PHYLLANTHUS Thonningii Schum. & Thonn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl. 418.
PHYLLANTHUS javanicus Poir. ex Spreng. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Syst. Veg. iii. 21.
PHYLLANTHUS gracilis Roxb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Fl. Ind. iii. 654.
PHYLLANTHUS obcordatus Willd. ex Roxb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 656.
PHYLLANTHUS longifolius Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 135, not of Lam.
PHYLLANTHUS incurvus Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c., not of Thunb.
PHYLLANTHUS heterophyllus E. Meyer ex Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c., in syn., name only.
PHYLLANTHUS Gueinzii Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxii. 18, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 363.
PHYLLANTHUS venosus Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 254; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37.
PHYLLANTHUS arabicus Hochst. ex Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Adansonia, i. 86.
PHYLLANTHUS vaccinioides Klotzsch [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 105, not of Sond.
Diasperus maderaspatensis O. Kuntze [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 600.
Information
a woody undershrub, very variable in habit; flowering branchlets sharply angular, almost winged or variously compressed, glabrous or minutely asperulate; leaves linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, variable in size, up to 1 1/2 in. long and 1/2 in. broad, rather rigidly membranous or thinly chartaceous, glabrous or slightly asperulate; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, usually prominent below; petiole short, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, broad and auriculate at the base, nearly 1 1/2 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad at the base, membranous, glabrous; flowers monœcious, the male and female often together in the leaf-axils, or more often the females solitary, much larger than the males; pedicels about 1 lin. long; male flowers: sepals 6, oblong-lanceolate, 2/3 lin. long, membranous, glabrous; disc-glands 6, thin and smooth, flat; stamens 3; filaments connate; anthers dehiscing longitudinally; female flowers: sepals 6, 2-seriate, 3 outer ovate-elliptic or rounded, slightly apiculate, 1 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, 3 inner slightly narrower, with narrow membranous margins: disc of 6 separate flat thin glands; ovary lobed; styles 3, distinct, suberect, thick, bifid; capsule depressed-globose, 1 1/2 lin. in diam., 3-lobed, smooth; seeds trigonous, convex on the back, 3/4 lin. long and broad, and marked with 9–10 fine lines of dots on the back. null
Range
Widely distributed throughout the warmer regions of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset East Div.; Little Fish River, Scott Elliot, 536!COAST REGION Bathurst Div.; Glenfilling, Drège! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Schlechter, 2680! between Grahamstown and Coldstream, Bolus, 10653! East London Div.; East London, Rattray, 687! Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 659! Kei Hill, Schönland, 1358! British Kaffraria; Krielis Country, Bowker, 2641! and without precise locality, Cooper, 292! 3139!EASTERN REGION Transkei Div.; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 1139! 1145 partly! Tembuland; near Emgwali River, Bolus, 10280! Pondoland; Port St. John, Galpin, 3429! Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, Tyson, 2862! Natal; near Durban, Wahlberg! Gerrard, 1177! Gueinzius, 162! Inanda, Wood, 1142! near Glencoe, Wood, 5177! near Phoenix, Schlechter, 3025! Clairmont, Schlechter, 3052! near Newcastle, Wilms, 2272! and without precise locality, Sutherland! Gerrard, 374! 1011!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; various localities, Burchell, 1739! 1786! 2021! Orange River Colony; Draai Fontein, Rehmann, 3647! Bechuanaland; Mafeking, Duparquet, 23! Transvaal; near Pietersburg, Schlechter, 4364! Fourteen Streams, Burtt-Davy, 1586! Springbok Flats, Burtt-Davy, 1195! Potchefstroom, Burtt-Davy, 1817! 9697! Christiana, Burtt-Davy, 12847! near Crocodile River, Schlechter, 3915! Houtbosh, Rehmann, 5917! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1314! Komati Poort, Schlechter, 11785! Kirk, 71!WESTERN REGION Great Namaqualand; Schaf riverbed at Seeheim, Pearson, 3739! plateau west of Gobas Station, Pearson, 3741! Akam River, Pearson, 4766!

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