Description
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Erect shrubs ca. 3 m tall, monoecious, glabrous throughout; branches angular-winged. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 4 mm; petiole 2-4 mm; leaf blade obovate or oblong, 5.5-12 × 2-3.5 cm, thickly papery, base broadly cuneate or obtuse, apex caudate-acuminate, acumen ca. 1.2 cm; midrib and lateral veins in 10-14 pairs, slightly elevated on both surfaces, subparallel, ascending to margins, curved anastomosing. Inflorescences 1-3-flowered, with several bracteoles at base; bracteoles ovate-triangular. Male flowers: pedicel filamentous, 20-25 mm; sepals 6, lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, white, midrib elevated abaxially; disk segments 6, linear, ca. 2 × 0.2 mm; stamens 3; filaments connate into a terete column; anthers oblong, connectives subulate. Female flowers: sepals 6, lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, midrib elevated abaxially, persistent in fruit; disk segments 6, linear, ca. 2 mm; ovary globose, 3-locular; styles 3, bifid. Fruiting pedicels to 4 cm, enlarged at apex; capsules globose, ca. 1.5 cm in diam. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
Synonym
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Phyllanthus lii Govaerts & Radcliffe-Smith (1996), not Phyllanthus caudatifolius Merrill (1926).
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
