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Phyllanthus hirtellus

Citation: F. Muell. ex Muell.-Arg., Linnaea 32:22 (1863).

Synonymy: P. thymoides Sieber ex Sonder, Linnaea 28:566 (1856-57), nom. nud.; P. thymoides (Muell.Arg.)Muell.-Arg. var. parviflorus J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 352 (1924); P. hirtellus Muell.-Arg. var. parviflorus (J. Black)H. Eichler, Suppl. 209 (1965).

Common name: Hairy (or thyme) spurge.

Description:
Small shrubs to 60 cm high, with numerous erect slender but woody stems covered with stiff acuminate hairs; leaves oblanceolate to cuneate, 4-12 mm long, unevenly covered with hairs similar to those on the stem; dioecious.

Flowers axillary; males on slender peduncles, in small greenish or creamy clusters; calyx c. 1 mm long; female solitary on stouter pedicels; calyx green, 2-3 mm long but larger at the base of the ripe capsule.

Capsule depressed-globular, 3-4 mm diam., pubescent; seed finally papillose on the back.

image of FSA2_Phyllanthus_hir.jpg Phyllanthus hirtellus leaf, fruit and 2 cocci.
Image source: fig 406d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Flora of the A.C.T., fig. 241 as P. thymoides; Galbraith (1977) Wildflowers of south-east Australia, pl. 72.

Distribution:  Common in dry sclerophyll forest sites on shallow soils.

  Vic.; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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