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Phyllanthus scabrellus

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Identification
Phyllanthus scabrellus Webb [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by 101311, 1849 Phyllanthus rotundifolius Klein ex Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by G. L. Webster, 1957 Phyllanthus rotundifolius Klein ex Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Phyllanthus scabrellus Webb [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Phyllanthus miruri
  • Phyllanthus rotundifolius
  • Phyllanthus scabrellus

Flora

Entry for PHYLLANTHUS rotundifolius Klein ex Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
PHYLLANTHUS rotundifolius Klein ex Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Sp. Pl. iv. 584. —Müll. Arg. in Linnæa, xxxii. 43, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 405, excl. var. leucocalyx, Müll. Arg.; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 303, and in Höhnel, Disc. Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie, ed. Engl. ii. 355; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 1892, 360.
PHYLLANTHUS Niruri Wall. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Cat. 7895A, partly, not of Linn.
PHYLLANTHUS scabrellus Webb ex Hook. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Niger Flora, 175; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. Flora Cap. Verd. Ins. 309.
Diasperus rotundifolius O. Kuntze [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 600.
Information
An annual herb about 1 ft. high; stems and branches usually angular and asperulate; flowering branchlets spreading or drooping, up to 3 in. long, asperulate. Leaves rounded-obovate, cuneate or slightly rounded at the base, 2–5 lin. long, 1 1/2–4 lin. broad, membranous or slightly chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole short, glabrous; stipules subulate-lanceolate, 1/2 lin. long. Flowers monœcious, 2 or 3 males and 1 female together in each leaf-axil, shortly pedicellate. Male flowers: Sepals 6, 1-nerved, membranous. Disk-glands 6, slightly wrinkled or warted. Stamens 3; filaments connate to near the top; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers: Sepals larger than those of the male, ovate, with a broad midrib. Disk crenulate, small. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous; styles distinct, spreading, bifid. Seeds marked with about 7 longitudinal lines on the back.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land coast region, Bent!Eritrea Nile Land Mount Bosco, near Saati, Schweinfurth, 568!Somaliland Nile Land Lort-Phillips! Cole! Drake-Brockman, 178!
Distribution (external)
Cape Verde Islands
Arabia
India

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