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Phyllanthus hypospodius is a member of the Phyllanthaceae family, endemic to Queensland. It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1892. In 2022 R.W.Bouman and others placed it in the genus, Dendrophyllanthus, but this new combination is not yet accepted.
Mueller described the plant from a specimen collected by Stephen Johnson on the Russell River in Queensland. Tall, throughout glabrous; petioles quite short; leaves very large, almost distichous, chartaceous, ovate- or elliptic-lanceolar, thinly venulated, on the surface dull-green, beneath whitish-grey; staminate flowers minute, on very short pedicels, each cluster accompanied by one or two pistillate flowers of larger size; outer sepals almost ovate, inner more orbicular and slightly longer; stamens six, their anthers roundish and nearly as long as their filaments; style hardly any; stigmas three, channelled or flattened, un…
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phyllanthus hypospodius 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.
