Distribution in Egypt
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Global Distribution
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Southeast Egypt, Tropical Africa, Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, Java, China, Australia.
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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis is known from the Flora area from a single 19th-century collection from Hong Kong. Elsewhere it is a very successful adventive in drier regions. The description is based largely on material from outside China.
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Description
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Herbs, perennial but often flowering in first year, 0.15-0.9(-1.2) m tall, monoecious, glabrous throughout; stem usually woody at base; branching mostly basal, all similar, erect or ascending. Leaves spiral; stipules ovate, 1.5-2(-4) mm, petiole very short; leaf blade linear-lanceolate to obovate, (7-)10-30(-60) × (1-)2-7(-17) mm, leathery, gray-green, base rounded, apex shortly acuminate; lateral veins obscure. Inflorescences axillary fascicles, most axils with 1 female flower, distal axils with 1-4 male flowers. Male flowers: pedicels ca. 1 mm; sepals 6, suborbicular, ca. 1 × 0.8 mm, margins entire; disk glands 6, small and smooth; stamens 3; filaments connate at base; anthers longitudinally dehiscent. Female flowers: pedicels 1.5-2 mm; sepals 6, suborbicular to subspatulate, ca. 2 × 1.5 mm, margin entire; persistent in fruit; disk glands 6, ± square; ovary globose, 3-celled, smooth; styles 3, ± free. Fruit a capsule, oblate, 1.2-2 × ca. 3 mm, olive green, smooth. Seed 3-sided, ca. 1.3 mm, light brown, with rows of minute tubercles on back and sides.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Slopes with scrub, elsewhere often in disturbed areas. Hong Kong [India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka; Africa, SW Asia, Australia].
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Derivation of specific name
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maderaspatensis: from the Madras region of India
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Phyllanthus maderaspatensis L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=134240
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Description
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Erect or decumbent annual or perennial herb, up to c. 1 m tall. Stems branched, angular, often reddish or brownish tinged. Leaves spirally arranged, up to 6 cm long on main shoots, usually much smaller on lateral branches, linear, lanceolate, oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, grey-green above, paler blue-green beneath, sometimes edged reddish; lateral veins 4-10 pairs, not prominent above, prominent beneath; petiole up to 2 mm long. Stipules 1-4 mm long asymmetrically triangular-lanceolate, cordate-auriculate on one side at the base, whitish to pinkish-cream with a brownish central line. Flowers in few-flowered clusters at almost all leaf axils; male flowers with sepals yellowish-green on pedicels up to 1 mm long; female flowers with sepals dull green, often pinkish-purple tinged, on pedicels c. 2 mm long. Fruit 2 × 3 mm, depressed rounded-3-lobed, smoth and somewhat shiny, olive-green, often reddish-tinged.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Phyllanthus maderaspatensis L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=134240
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Frequency
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Common
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Worldwide distribution
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Widespread in the Old World tropics and subtropics.
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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis
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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis is a perennial herbaceous species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae,[2] widespread in tropical and subtropical areas of the old world.[3]
Uses
India
The plant is widely used in Indian medicine for treatment of headaches.[4] Indian herbal medicine for liver troubles called Bhumyamlaki might use the plant.[5]
Africa
Tanzania
The pounded form of the whole plant is applied to scabies.[4]
Niger
The plant is used as an aphrodisiac.[4]
Kenya
The smoke from the burning plants is used to exterminate caterpillars in maize.[4]
References
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^ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 25 December 2015
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^ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 27 January 2016
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^ Hyde, M.A.; Wursten, B.T.; Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M., Flora of Zimbabwe, retrieved 25 December 2015
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^ a b c d Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Ameenah; Schmelzer, Gabriella Harriet (2008). Medicinal Plants. PROTA. p. 425. ISBN 978-9057822049.
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^ Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Ameenah; Schmelzer, Gabriella Harriet (2008). Medicinal Plants. PROTA. p. 423. ISBN 978-9057822049.
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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis: Brief Summary
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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis is a perennial herbaceous species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae, widespread in tropical and subtropical areas of the old world.
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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis
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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Diệp hạ châu. Loài này được L. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1753.[1]
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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis: Brief Summary
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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Diệp hạ châu. Loài này được L. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1753.
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麻德拉斯叶下珠
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二名法 Phyllanthus maderaspatensisL. 麻德拉斯叶下珠(学名:Phyllanthus maderaspatensis)为大戟科叶下珠属下的一个种。
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麻德拉斯叶下珠(学名:Phyllanthus maderaspatensis)为大戟科叶下珠属下的一个种。