Phyllanthus ussuri ( lat. Phyllanthus ussuriensis ) is a species of plants of the genus Phyllanthus ( Phyllanthus ) of the family Phyllanthaceae .
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Biological Description
A small annual herbaceous plant with flattened or winged stems 5-20 cm long.
Leaves are bare, with very short petioles , lanceolate or oval, 5–25 mm long and 1.5–7 mm wide, with stipule 1 mm long.
The flowers are single or collected two in leaf axils, with very short pedicels . Sepals in number about 6, triangular in shape. Anthers are rounded, 3 mm across, warty or glabrous. Ovary glabrous or densely covered with scaly papillae.
The seed is trihedral, tuberous.
Distribution
It grows in the Far East , in Japan and in China . Described from the Ussuri River . Type in Leningrad .
Synonyms
The following names are included in the synonymy of the species [2] :
- Phyllanthus anceps Benth.
- Phyllanthus matsumurae Hayata ex Fabe
- Phyllanthus simplex var. chinensis Müll.Arg.
- Phyllanthus simplex var. ussuriensis (Rupr. et Maxim.) Müll.Arg.
- Phyllanthus virgatus var. chinensis (Müll.Arg.) GLWebster
- Phyllanthus wilfordii Croizat et Metcalf
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : Synonyms for Phyllanthus ussuriensis Rupr. & Maxim., Bull. Cl. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 15: 222 (1857).
Literature
- Genus 852. Phyllanthus - Phyllanthus // Flora of the USSR : 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1949. - T. 14 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin , E.G. Bobrov . - S. 287-288. - 790 s. - 4000 copies.