Phyllanthus L.

Styles branched Phyllanthus

Main branches with laminate leaves sometimes reduced but not scale like

Glabrous or scabrous shrubs or herbs. Styles entire

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Erect, glabrous shrub up to 2 m high. Stamens sometimes with prominent glands. Leaves broad-ovate to orbicular, up to 20 mm long, 4–12 mm wide; apex notched or obtuse. Capsule 3–4 mm diam. seed surface longitudinally ridged. Widespread. DSF. Ss. Fl. spring–summer Phyllanthus gunnii

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Small glabrous or minutely scabro-pubescent plant 5–30 cm high, with woody base and numerous erect to decumbent slender branches. Leaves greyish, oblong to narrow-elliptic, 10–20 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, flat or slightly concave but the margin ± thickened. Female perianth narrower than male. Capsule 1.5–3 mm diam. seed surface tuberculate. Cumberland Plain; northern Hornsby Plateau. WS or shale lenses in Ss. Fl. spring–summer Phyllanthus virgatus