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Phyllanthus myrtaceus Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 myrtaceus Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnaea 23: 134 (1850). —Müller Argoviensis in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 397 (1866). —S. Moore in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 192 (1911). —Hutchinson in F.T.A. 6, 1: 726 (1912); in F.C. 5, 2: 397 (1920). —Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 5: 393 (1916). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas (Veg. Erde 9) 3, 2: 29 (1921). —Drummond in Kirkia 10: 251 (1975). —Jean F. Brunel, Phyllanthus Afr. Intertrop. Mad.: 392 (1987), unpublished thesis. Type from South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).
Information
Very like Phyllanthus hutchinsonianus, but the plants generally dioecious with scale leaf stipules not as strongly auriculate; foliage leaves not as closely distichous, the blades up to 2.8 × 2.3 cm and often broadly elliptic-ovate, glaucous beneath, occasionally retuse at the apex and truncate at the base and with up to 12 pairs of lateral nerves; female pedicels 8–14 mm long; female sepals accrescent to up to 6 × 4 mm; seeds silky-textured and brown with only 8–9 longitudinal rows of shallow closely-set reddish-brown transversely lineate tubercles on the dorsal facet, and c. 6 concentric arcs of such tubercles per ventral facet, connected by parallel transverse striae.
Habitat
Submontane grassland often at streamsides, also on forest margins and in Brachystegia woodland at south eastern foot of Chimanimani Mts
Altitude range
305–2250 m.
2250
305
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., female fl. 28.v.1969, Müller 1077 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Distr., Makurupini area, male & female fl. 28.viii.1969, T. Wild 37 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Province)
Notes
H.Wild 2936 from the Chimanimani Mts., and Biegel 277 and Chase 2875 from Nyanga, are intermediate between this species and P. hutchinsonianus.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 myrtaceus Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnaea 23: 134 (1850). —Müller Argoviensis in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 397 (1866). —S. Moore in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 192 (1911). —Hutchinson in F.T.A. 6, 1: 726 (1912); in F.C. 5, 2: 397 (1920). —Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 5: 393 (1916). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas (Veg. Erde 9) 3, 2: 29 (1921). —Drummond in Kirkia 10: 251 (1975). —Jean F. Brunel, Phyllanthus Afr. Intertrop. Mad.: 392 (1987), unpublished thesis. Type from South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).
Information
Very like Phyllanthus hutchinsonianus, but the plants generally dioecious with scale leaf stipules not as strongly auriculate; foliage leaves not as closely distichous, the blades up to 2.8 × 2.3 cm and often broadly elliptic-ovate, glaucous beneath, occasionally retuse at the apex and truncate at the base and with up to 12 pairs of lateral nerves; female pedicels 8–14 mm long; female sepals accrescent to up to 6 × 4 mm; seeds silky-textured and brown with only 8–9 longitudinal rows of shallow closely-set reddish-brown transversely lineate tubercles on the dorsal facet, and c. 6 concentric arcs of such tubercles per ventral facet, connected by parallel transverse striae.
Habitat
Submontane grassland often at streamsides, also on forest margins and in Brachystegia woodland at south eastern foot of Chimanimani Mts
Altitude range
305–2250 m.
2250
305
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., female fl. 28.v.1969, Müller 1077 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Distr., Makurupini area, male & female fl. 28.viii.1969, T. Wild 37 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Province)
Notes
H.Wild 2936 from the Chimanimani Mts., and Biegel 277 and Chase 2875 from Nyanga, are intermediate between this species and P. hutchinsonianus.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 myrtaceus Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnaea 23: 134 (1850). —Müller Argoviensis in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 397 (1866). —S. Moore in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 192 (1911). —Hutchinson in F.T.A. 6, 1: 726 (1912); in F.C. 5, 2: 397 (1920). —Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 5: 393 (1916). —Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas (Veg. Erde 9) 3, 2: 29 (1921). —Drummond in Kirkia 10: 251 (1975). —Jean F. Brunel, Phyllanthus Afr. Intertrop. Mad.: 392 (1987), unpublished thesis. Type from South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).
Information
Very like Phyllanthus hutchinsonianus, but the plants generally dioecious with scale leaf stipules not as strongly auriculate; foliage leaves not as closely distichous, the blades up to 2.8 × 2.3 cm and often broadly elliptic-ovate, glaucous beneath, occasionally retuse at the apex and truncate at the base and with up to 12 pairs of lateral nerves; female pedicels 8–14 mm long; female sepals accrescent to up to 6 × 4 mm; seeds silky-textured and brown with only 8–9 longitudinal rows of shallow closely-set reddish-brown transversely lineate tubercles on the dorsal facet, and c. 6 concentric arcs of such tubercles per ventral facet, connected by parallel transverse striae.
Habitat
Submontane grassland often at streamsides, also on forest margins and in Brachystegia woodland at south eastern foot of Chimanimani Mts
Altitude range
305–2250 m.
2250
305
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., female fl. 28.v.1969, Müller 1077 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Distr., Makurupini area, male & female fl. 28.viii.1969, T. Wild 37 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Province)
Notes
H.Wild 2936 from the Chimanimani Mts., and Biegel 277 and Chase 2875 from Nyanga, are intermediate between this species and P. hutchinsonianus.
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