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Phyllanthus multiflorus

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Name

Identification
Phyllanthus multiflorus Poir. [family PHYLLANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
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Flora

Entry for PHYLLANTHUS reticulatus Poir. [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 reticulatus Poir. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Encycl. v. 298;—Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236; Durand & De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 103; De Wild & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 205; De Wild. Miss. É. Laurent, 127, Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, i. 275; ii. 268; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 469; Hutchinson in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 700.
Phyllanthus multiflorus Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Sp. Pl. iv. 581.
Phyllanthus prieurianus Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxii. 12.
Phyllanthus alaternoides Reichb. ex Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Adansonia, i. 83.
Phyllanthus reticulatus Müll. Arg. var. genuinus [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 344; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 958.
Anisonema reticulatum A. Juss. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Euph. t. 4, fig. 11.
Kirganelia reticulata Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Étude Gén. Euphorb. 613.
Kirganelia prieuriana Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Adansonia, i. 82.
Diasperus reticulatus O. Kuntze [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 600.
Information
an erect much-branched shrub; stems pubescent, at length nearly glabrous; flowering branchlets sometimes produced in fascicles, but more often solitary, up to 2 1/2 in. long, densely crisped-pubescent; leaves oblong or elliptic, mostly rounded at both ends, 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, 3 1/2–7 lin. broad, somewhat membranous, glabrous or crisped-pubescent; lateral nerves 7–9 on each side; petiole pubescent; stipules lanceolate, acute; flowers monœcious, axillary, one female and two or three males in each fascicle; pedicel slender, up to 2 lin. long, slightly pubescent or glabrous; male flowers: sepals 5, ovate-elliptic, 1-nerved, about 3/4 lin. long; disc-glands 5, obovate, flattened, smooth; stamens 5; two or three of the filaments partially connate, the others free and shorter; anthers dehiscing at the side, cells cohering at their tips, diverging at the base; female flowers: sepals as in the male; disc of separate glands similar to those of the male; ovary depressed-globose, glabrous; styles very short, erect, and crowded; fruit fleshy or coriaceous, 8–16-seeded, about 3 lin. in diam., seeds irregularly trigonous, punctulate. null
Range
Widely spread in the Tropics of the Old World.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Delagoa Bay; Sanderson, 574! near Lorenzo Marques, Bolus, 9769! 9770! Var. β: Lorenzo Marques, Bolus, 9771! Junod, 54! and without precise locality, Forbes, 48!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Barberton, Pole Evans, 2942! Burtt-Davy, 8040! between Thabina and Sutherlands Middle Veld, Burtt-Davy, 5443! Shiluvane, Junod, 654!

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