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Phyllanthus lawii
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Phyllanthus lawii Graham ex Muell.-Arg. in DC., Prodr. 15: 353. 1866; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 290. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1290(901). 1925.
Phyllanthus juniperinoides Mull.-Arg., Linnaea 32: 18. 1863; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 378. 2007.
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Description:
Glabrous shrubs usually growing along river-banks; branches grooved. Leaves 3-5 x 2-2.5 mm, distichous, overlapping, linear-oblong, rounded at the apex, often apiculate, base rounded or subcordate, subsessile; nerves obscure; stipules 1.2 mm long, lanceolate-subulate. Flowers axillry, the males solitary or few together, the female solitary. Sepals of male and female flowers 6, linear-oblong, obtuse, those of the female flowers 2.5 mm long. Stamens 3, the filaments united in a short column; anthers erect with vertical slits. Styles 3. distinct, shortly and bluntly 2-fid, the short lobes usually recurved. Capsules 4 mm in diameter, on a very short pedicel, globose, slightly depressed, glabrous. seeds 2.3 mm long, 3-gonous, rounded on the back, glabrous.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-March
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District(s):
Ernakulam, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along the banks of streams and rivers
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Distribution:
India
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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):
White, Creamy
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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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