Phyllanthus L.
Genus comprised of about 1,000 trees, shrubs and herbaceous species, distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions around the world. In North Africa there are 2 woody species that appear in the southern limit of the study area.
Key to species
1 Shrub 3(4.5) m in height. Leaves elliptic Phyllanthus reticulatus
1 Perennial herb sometimes with a woody stem, up to 0.8(1) m in height.Leaves linear-lanceolate Phyllanthus maderaspatensis
Brunel, J.F. 1987. Sur le genre Phyllanthus L. et quelques genres voisins de la tribu des Phyllantheae Dumort (Euphorbiaceae, Phyllantheae) en Afrique intertropicale et à Madagascar. PhD thesis, Laboratoire Morphologie experimentale, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. 472 pp. + Annexes.
Luo, S.X., Esser, H.J., Zhang, D. & Renner, S.S.. 2011. Nuclear ITS sequences help disentangle Phyllanthus reticulatus (Phyllanthaceae), an Asian species not occurring in Africa, but introduced to Jamaica. Systematic Botany 36(1): 99-104.
Key to species
1 Shrub 3(4.5) m in height. Leaves elliptic Phyllanthus reticulatus
1 Perennial herb sometimes with a woody stem, up to 0.8(1) m in height.Leaves linear-lanceolate Phyllanthus maderaspatensis
Updated by: J. Charco.