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Phyllanthus macrocalyx
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Phyllanthus macrocalyx Muell.-Arg., Linnaea 32: 48. 1863; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 301. 1887; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 373. 2007.
Reidia macrocalyx (Muell.-Arg.) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1292(903). 1925.
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Description:
Much-branched subshrub. Leaves alternate, up to 6 x 2.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute or obtuse, rounded at base, equal-sided; nerves 6-8 pair, very slender; stipules small, lanceolate, caducous. Flowers monoecious, axillary, solitary, male and female in fasicles, the male with rather short filiform pedicels, the female with longer pedicels widening upwards; bracts very small, often numerous and imbricate. Calyx-lobes of male not dentate or lacerate, in female greatly enlarged in fruit and closely imbricate; disk in male annular, in female saucer-shaped; styles reflexed, 2-fid to the middle. Stamens 2 or 4, the filaments united in a column around a pistillode; anthers dehiscing horizontally. Ovary 3-celled, 2 ovules 1 in each cell; styles 3, deeply 2-fid. Fruit a capsule of 3 thinly crustaceous 2-valved cocci; seeds triangular, glabrous or appressed hairy; cotyledons oblong.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
1000-1800
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