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Phyllanthus obliquus

Phyllanthus obliquus
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Phyllanthaceae (Phyllanth family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Indian Subcontinent to Japan and Vanuatu
Climate
wet tropical

About

Phyllanthus obliquus is a species of flowering plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is a shrub or tree which ranges from the Indian subcontinent through Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Japan, Malesia, and Papuasia to northern Australia and Vanuatu.

The species was first described as Agyneia obliqua by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1805. In 1865 Johannes Müller Argoviensis placed it in genus Phyllanthus as Phyllanthus obliquus.

Other Phyllanthus plants

Drummond's leaf-flower · Tahitian gooseberry tree · Jamaican gooseberry tree · Carry me seed · Phyllanthus anamalayanus · Phyllanthus arbuscula · Phyllanthus axillaris · Phyllanthus balgooyi · Phyllanthus · Phyllanthus caesiifolius · Phyllanthus calycinus · Carolina leaf-flower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phyllanthus obliquus 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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