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Phyllanthus rotundifolius

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Name

Identification
Phyllanthus rotundifolius Klein ex Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Phyllanthus miruri
  • Phyllanthus rotundifolius
  • Andrachne gruveli
  • Phyllanthus aspericaulis
  • Phyllanthus boehmii
  • Phyllanthus leucanthus
  • Phyllanthus asperulatus
  • Phyllanthus scabrellus
Common name
  • bedrine (JB) (SENEGAL, ARABIC (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kodiolel Allah (JB) kodioloñ Allah (JB) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for PHYLLANTHUS rotundifolius Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PHYLLANTHUS rotundifolius Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1805).
PHYLLANTHUS aspericaulis Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1909).
Information
Erect annual herb, sometimes forming woody-based shrublet to 45 cm high; glabrous or minutely papillose-hairy throughout. Main stems erect, scale leaves linear-lanceolate, 1.5 mm long, often replaced by normal foliage leaves in young plants; leafy shoots up to 8 cm long. Leaves suborbicular to obovate-spathulate, 4–12 x 3–7 mm, tip obtuse or rounded, often uniformly tinged reddish. Monoecious; axils of leaves with 2–3 male and 1 female flower, male flowers sometimes absent near shoot tip. Male flowers: pedicels c. 0.5 mm long; sepals 6, c. 0.7 mm long, inner broader, with coloured median stripe; disc glands lobed and tuberculate; stamens 3, filaments united, anthers laterally dehiscent. Female flowers: pedicels 1 mm; sepals 6, 1 x 0.8 mm, outer ovate, inner obovate, tip obtuse, with broad median band; disc annular or obscurely 6-sided, sometimes irregularly divided; ovary sessile, smooth, styles ± free, later spreading. Capsule 1 x 2 mm, smooth. Seeds 1 mm long, 3-sided, usually dark brown with 6–7(–9) ridges on back and 5–6 on sides.
Range
N1, 2; S2, 3 E Sudan east to Pakistan, S India & Ceylon, East Africa, Rwanda and Malawi.
Altitude range
20–1370 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4812; Hemming 2158; Wood 72/20.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Cape Verde Is
Mauritania
Senegal
Egypt
Notes
Most material from the Flora area is conspicuously papillose, elsewhere the plant is usually glabrous.

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