Family | Phyllanthaceae (also placed in Euphorbiaceae) |
Tribe | Phyllantheae |
Subtribe | Flueggeinae |
Scientific name | Phyllanthus tenellus Roxburgh |
Synonyms | Phyllanthus corcovadensis Müll.; Phyllanthus tenellus Roxburgh var. tenellus |
Common name | (Japanese common name) naga-e ko-mikan sou (ナガエノコミカンソウ, 長柄小蜜柑草 [meaning: tiny orange weed with long leaf stalks]) |
(English common name) Mascarene Island leaf-flower, Long-stalked Phyllanthus | |
Distribution | (Japan) Honshu (west of Kanto region), Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
(Other nations) [native] Yemen, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Mauritius, Reunion | |
Chromosomal number | 2n=26 |
Description | Plants electing 8-77cm. Leaves 0.8-2.4cm length, 0.1-0.3cm width. Flowers flowering in June to January. Annual plants. |
Reference | Phyllanthus tenellus Roxb. |
Phyllanthus tenellus | |
Phylogenetics of tribe Phyllantheae (Phyllanthaceae; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato) based on nrITS and plastid matK DNA sequence dat | |
Note | Naturalized plants (first discovered at Kanagawa prefecture in 1987). |
September 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
September 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
September 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
September 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |