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Aporosa acuminata

Family
Phyllanthaceae (Phyllanth family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
SW. Sri Lanka
Climate
wet tropical

About

Aporosa acuminata is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is endemic to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka. It is an understory tree with 5m tall. Flowers are unisexual and dioecious, where male flowers are green to white in color. Reddish capsular fruits are one-seeded.

Other Aporosa plants

Aporosa bourdillonii · Deccan Aporosa · Aporosa ficifolia · Aporosa fusiformis · Aporosa lanceolata · Aporosa latifolia · Aporosa maingayi · Aporosa octandra · Aporosa planchoniana · Aporosa symplocifolia · Aporosa tetrapleura · Aporosa villosa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aporosa acuminata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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