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| Synonyms: |
Phyllanthus guineensis Pax |
| Common names: | Small-fruited potato bush (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Usually a much-branched scrambling shrub, rarely a small tree. Leaves obovate to elliptic-oblong, produced on short lateral branchlets, giving the impression of compound leaves. Flowers in clusters on short axillary branchlets, small, yellowish-green, sexes separate on the same plant, flowering before the new leaves. Female flowers solitary along very thin branchlets appearing as racemes. Fruit berry-like, 3-4 mm, red to purple-black when ripe. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | ovalifolius: with oval (elliptic) leaves |
| Habitat: | In high rainfall woodland and forest |
| Altitude range: | |
| Flowering time: | Mainly Oct - Nov |
| Worldwide distribution: | Tropical Africa and Yemen |
| Mozambique distribution: | N,MS |
| Growth form: | CS |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Thursday 19 February 2009 |
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