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PHYLLANTHUS profusus N. E. Br. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 profusus N. E. Br. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 113. —Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648.
Information
Branches subterete, woody, glabrous; flowering branchlets produced in fascicles in the axils of a sterile branchlet, up to 8 in. long, slightly flattened. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, acutely acuminate, rounded or slightly cuneate at the base, 1–3 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, paler below; lateral nerves 5–6 on each side, looped and branched about half-way between the midrib and margin, very slightly raised below; petiole 1 lin. long, glabrous; stipules small, slightly oblique, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Male flowers very numerous, fasciculate on crowded branchlets produced from the axil or a little above the axil of a sterile branch, whitish or pale green; pedicel very slender, up to 4 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 1 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 4, rounded and slightly fleshy, faintly pitted. Stamens 4; filaments free; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers not known.
Distribution
Liberia Upper Guinea Sinoe Basin, Whyte! within a radius of 20 miles from Kakatown, Whyte!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 profusus N. E. Br. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 113. —Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648.
Information
Branches subterete, woody, glabrous; flowering branchlets produced in fascicles in the axils of a sterile branchlet, up to 8 in. long, slightly flattened. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, acutely acuminate, rounded or slightly cuneate at the base, 1–3 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, paler below; lateral nerves 5–6 on each side, looped and branched about half-way between the midrib and margin, very slightly raised below; petiole 1 lin. long, glabrous; stipules small, slightly oblique, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Male flowers very numerous, fasciculate on crowded branchlets produced from the axil or a little above the axil of a sterile branch, whitish or pale green; pedicel very slender, up to 4 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 1 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 4, rounded and slightly fleshy, faintly pitted. Stamens 4; filaments free; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers not known.
Distribution
Liberia Upper Guinea Sinoe Basin, Whyte! within a radius of 20 miles from Kakatown, Whyte!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 profusus N. E. Br. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 113. —Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648.
Information
Branches subterete, woody, glabrous; flowering branchlets produced in fascicles in the axils of a sterile branchlet, up to 8 in. long, slightly flattened. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, acutely acuminate, rounded or slightly cuneate at the base, 1–3 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, paler below; lateral nerves 5–6 on each side, looped and branched about half-way between the midrib and margin, very slightly raised below; petiole 1 lin. long, glabrous; stipules small, slightly oblique, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Male flowers very numerous, fasciculate on crowded branchlets produced from the axil or a little above the axil of a sterile branch, whitish or pale green; pedicel very slender, up to 4 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 1 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 4, rounded and slightly fleshy, faintly pitted. Stamens 4; filaments free; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers not known.
Distribution
Liberia Upper Guinea Sinoe Basin, Whyte! within a radius of 20 miles from Kakatown, Whyte!
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