Phyllanthus pentaphyllus C.Wright ex Griseb.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Euphorbiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual; stems terete, wiry, slender, nearly prostrate, divaricately branched, zig-zag. Leaves obovate, 8-12 mm. long, the base acute, the apex rounded or obtuse, the margin entire and slightly revolute; petiole about 1 mm. long; male flowers glomerate, the clusters about 8-12-florous, short-pedicelled; sepals ovate, obtuse, white; anthers 2; female flowers solitary, pedicellate, the pedicels bisetaceous at the base; sepals not white-margined; styles very short, 2-lobed, recurved; capsule small, depressed, about as long as the fruiting pedicel; seed minutely striate, the faint lines more scaly than papillate.
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Distribution
Low sandy meadows, Eleuthera and Mariguana : Florida ; Cuba. Tufted Phyllanthus.
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