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Phyllanthus nyikae

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Phyllanthus nyikae Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
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Flora

Entry for Phyllanthus nyikae Radcl.-Sm. [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 nyikae Radcl.-Sm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 51, 2: 317 (1996). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, male fl. 19.viii.1946, Brass 17332 (K, holotype; BM; NY; PRE; SRGH).
Phyllanthus sp. 2. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], —Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1: 69 (1954).
Information
Very like Phyllanthus confusus from Mt. Mulanje but with lead shoots and lower part of the lateral shoots minutely papillose-puberulous with multicellular hairs; scale leaves strongly reflexed, their stipules scarcely or slighly auriculate adaxially; male disk glands shallowly lobulate and tuberculate; and the female disk deeply 3-lobed.
Habitat
In montane grassland and on the grassy edges of montane forest
Range
Endemic to Nyika Plateau
Altitude range
2030–2340 m.
2340
2030
Distribution
Malawi N Rumphi Distr., Nyika Plateau, Nyamkowa, 6.5 km west of Livingstonia, female fl. 23.ii.1978, Pawek 13851 (DAV; K; MAL; MO; SRGH; UC).

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