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Phyllanthus is the largest genus in the plant family Phyllanthaceae. Estimates of the number of species in this genus vary widely, from 750 [ 2 ] to 1200. [ 3 ] Phyllanthus has a remarkable diversity of growth forms including annual and perennial herbs , shrubs , climbers , floating aquatics , and pachycaulous succulents .
Below is the full taxonomy of the family Phyllanthaceae. [1] Its circumscription is nearly coincident to that of ex-subfamily Phyllanthoideae of the Euphorbiaceae, where this family was split from.
As of January 2018, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families accepted about 1000 species in the genus Phyllanthus, with a further 1200-odd synonyms. The accepted names are listed below. The accepted names are listed below.
Argoviensis again described the species in the journal Flora in 1865, but moved it to the genus Phyllanthus, and changed the species name to Phyllanthus gaudichaudi, honoring Gaudichaud-Beaupréso, who first collected the species, and so as not to confuse it with the related species, Phyllanthus marianus. [29]
Phyllanthaceae is a family of flowering plants in the eudicot order Malpighiales.It is most closely related to the family Picrodendraceae. [3]The Phyllanthaceae are most numerous in the tropics, with many in the south temperate zone, and a few ranging as far north as the middle of the north temperate zone.
Phyllanthus acidus is an intermediary between a shrub and tree, reaching 2 to 9 m (6½ to 30 ft) high. [2] The tree's dense and bushy crown is composed of thickish, tough main branches, at the end of which are clusters of deciduous, greenish, 15-to-30-cm long branchlets.
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Phyllanthus fluitans, also known as the red root floater, floating spurge, [3] [4] or apple duckweed is a species of free floating aquatic plant and herbaceous perennial [5] in the family Phyllanthaceae. [6] This species is one of the only three non-terrestrial species in the genus Phyllanthus, with the other species being P. leonardianus [7 ...