Phyllanthus emblica produces edible fruits. They are greenish, about the size of ping-pong balls & have firm, crisp flesh around a single large seed. Dried fruits are available in large Asian groceries in my area. 📷: Vijay Anand Ismavel CCBYNC2. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Phyllanthus emblica produces edible fruits. They are greenish, about the size of ping-pong balls & have firm, crisp flesh around a single large seed. Dried fruits are available in large Asian groceries in my area. 📷: Vijay Anand Ismavel CCBYNC2. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
More #Phyllanthaceae strangeness! Many species of Phyllanthus are hyperaccumulators of nickel (meaning they store Ni in their tissues at concentrations very much greater than those of the surrounding soils).
In that case, let me share with you my own photos of two Phyllanthus from Borneo that are nickel hyperaccumulators: a branch of Phyllanthus balgooyi (with a detail of its fruits), and a flowering branch of Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi with male flowers (pedunculate) and female flowers (sessile).
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
More #Phyllanthaceae strangeness! Many species of Phyllanthus are hyperaccumulators of nickel (meaning they store Ni in their tissues at concentrations very much greater than those of the surrounding soils).
Phyllanthus unifoliatus doesn’t have the Phyllanthus branching. The name suggests that this species, unlike others, is unifoliolate, but of course, all Phyllanthus have simple, not compound, leaves. This one is from New Caledonia. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Phyllanthus unifoliatus doesn’t have the Phyllanthus branching. The name suggests that this species, unlike others, is unifoliolate, but of course, all Phyllanthus have simple, not compound, leaves. This one is from New Caledonia. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Here’s Phyllanthus fluitans, a floating aquatic species from southern Mexico and northern South America. I expected this to be a pantropical aquatic weed, but I see it’s escaped only in Florida (of course 😒). 📷: Eric Hunt CCBYNCND2 #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Here’s Phyllanthus fluitans, a floating aquatic species from southern Mexico and northern South America. I expected this to be a pantropical aquatic weed, but I see it’s escaped only in Florida (of course 😒). 📷: Eric Hunt CCBYNCND2 #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Phyllanthoid branching evolved only once but has been lost several times. Some species have kept the branching but ditched the leaves. Phyllanthus angustifolius of the Antilles has cladodes (flattened, photosynthetic branches). #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Phyllanthoid branching evolved only once but has been lost several times. Some species have kept the branching but ditched the leaves. Phyllanthus angustifolius of the Antilles has cladodes (flattened, photosynthetic branches). #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
If you weren’t paying attention, you might mistake Phyllanthus myriophyllus, of Haiti, for a plant with bipinnate compound leaves, something like a young Delonix regia (Fabaceae). Remember, those are branches, not compound leaves. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
If you weren’t paying attention, you might mistake Phyllanthus myriophyllus, of Haiti, for a plant with bipinnate compound leaves, something like a young Delonix regia (Fabaceae). Remember, those are branches, not compound leaves. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Hi, Scott! I love that you are talking about Phyllanthaceae this week. Are you going to mention any of the nickel hyperaccumulators in this plant family?
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Hi, Scott! I love that you are talking about Phyllanthaceae this week. Are you going to mention any of the nickel hyperaccumulators in this plant family?
Outside of Phyllanthaceae, what else has phyllanthoid branching?
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Outside of Phyllanthaceae, what else has phyllanthoid branching?
Phyllanthoid branching looks so much like pinnately compound leaves that even botanists can’t help but notice. Case in point: This is Phyllanthus juglandifolius. As the name suggests, the branches look like the leaves of walnut (Juglans spp.). #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Phyllanthoid branching looks so much like pinnately compound leaves that even botanists can’t help but notice. Case in point: This is Phyllanthus juglandifolius. As the name suggests, the branches look like the leaves of walnut (Juglans spp.). #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Phyllanthus has what is called “phyllanthoid branching”: Orthotropic (erect) shoots with spirally arranged leaves & plagiotropic (horizontal) branches with distichous leaves. Guam’s P. saffordii shows the dimorphism. 📷: Lauren Gutierrez CCBYND2. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Phyllanthus has what is called “phyllanthoid branching”: Orthotropic (erect) shoots with spirally arranged leaves & plagiotropic (horizontal) branches with distichous leaves. Guam’s P. saffordii shows the dimorphism. 📷: Lauren Gutierrez CCBYND2. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
I spend too much time pulling this annual weed from my garden in autumn: It’s Phyllanthus urinaria. At 1st glance, it looks like a single stem with pinnately compound leaves. Look again. The axillary flowers & fruits prove these “leaves” are branches. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I spend too much time pulling this annual weed from my garden in autumn: It’s Phyllanthus urinaria. At 1st glance, it looks like a single stem with pinnately compound leaves. Look again. The axillary flowers & fruits prove these “leaves” are branches. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Phyllanthus was once treated as yet another odd Euphorbiaceae. The unisexual flower & 3-part stigma fit, but they’re plesiomorphic*. We now place it in its own family, not esp. close to Euphorbiaceae. 📷: P. calycinus Philip Bouchard CCBYNCND2 #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Phyllanthus was once treated as yet another odd Euphorbiaceae. The unisexual flower & 3-part stigma fit, but they’re plesiomorphic*. We now place it in its own family, not esp. close to Euphorbiaceae. 📷: P. calycinus Philip Bouchard CCBYNCND2 #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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The second is awarded to Jeremy Bruhl, emeritus professor at UNE. He is an expert in, among other taxa, Cyperaceae and Phyllanthaceae. The two recipients are giving a shared presentation, reflecting their close collaboration over many years. #asbs2025
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The second is awarded to Jeremy Bruhl, emeritus professor at UNE. He is an expert in, among other taxa, Cyperaceae and Phyllanthaceae. The two recipients are giving a shared presentation, reflecting their close collaboration over many years. #asbs2025
#OpenAccess
#Phenology of Richeria grandis Vahl: A dioecious species with wide geographical distribution and unique environmental specificity
Cristiane Coelho de Moura et al
doi.org/10.1111/1442...
conservation/ forest islands/ phenophase/ Phyllanthaceae/ plant physiology
#Phenology of Richeria grandis Vahl: A dioecious species with wide geographical distribution and unique environmental specificity
Cristiane Coelho de Moura et al
doi.org/10.1111/1442...
conservation/ forest islands/ phenophase/ Phyllanthaceae/ plant physiology
November 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
#OpenAccess
#Phenology of Richeria grandis Vahl: A dioecious species with wide geographical distribution and unique environmental specificity
Cristiane Coelho de Moura et al
doi.org/10.1111/1442...
conservation/ forest islands/ phenophase/ Phyllanthaceae/ plant physiology
#Phenology of Richeria grandis Vahl: A dioecious species with wide geographical distribution and unique environmental specificity
Cristiane Coelho de Moura et al
doi.org/10.1111/1442...
conservation/ forest islands/ phenophase/ Phyllanthaceae/ plant physiology
Henry Nicholas Ridley https://bionomia.net/Q733709 collected the holotype PHYLLANTHACEAE: Antidesma montanum var. montanum https://gbif.org/occurrence/925146780 #TypeSpecimenToday
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Henry Nicholas Ridley https://bionomia.net/Q733709 collected the holotype PHYLLANTHACEAE: Antidesma montanum var. montanum https://gbif.org/occurrence/925146780 #TypeSpecimenToday
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Nymphanthus adenophorus, a new species of Phyllanthaceae from Vietnam (2 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/37e09980-f345-49ba-b888-decab35e5fb3
August 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Nymphanthus adenophorus, a new species of Phyllanthaceae from Vietnam (2 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/37e09980-f345-49ba-b888-decab35e5fb3
Assembly and characterization of the first mitochondrial genome of Phyllanthaceae: a case study of the ornamental aquatic plant Phyllanthus fluitans https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40668455/
July 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Assembly and characterization of the first mitochondrial genome of Phyllanthaceae: a case study of the ornamental aquatic plant Phyllanthus fluitans https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40668455/
Again, you need to be clear, because these are entirely different families :) This is genus Phyllanthus, in family Phyllanthaceae, order Malpighiales, clade Rosids. What you call gooseberries is genus Ribes, family Grossulariaceae, order Saxifragales. Very, very different plants :)
July 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Again, you need to be clear, because these are entirely different families :) This is genus Phyllanthus, in family Phyllanthaceae, order Malpighiales, clade Rosids. What you call gooseberries is genus Ribes, family Grossulariaceae, order Saxifragales. Very, very different plants :)
Chinese researchers have discovered a new endangered plant species in limestone areas of Encheng National Nature Reserve in S China's Guangxi Zhuang, naming it Breynia enchengensis (Phyllanthaceae), according to a paper recently published in Nordic Journal of Botany.
April 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Chinese researchers have discovered a new endangered plant species in limestone areas of Encheng National Nature Reserve in S China's Guangxi Zhuang, naming it Breynia enchengensis (Phyllanthaceae), according to a paper recently published in Nordic Journal of Botany.
E acabo este fio com várias imagens para vos apresentar algumhas das plantas #hiperacumuladoras de níquel que som endémicas deste outeiro de #Lompoyou em #Sabah: /Rinorea linearifolia/, /Actephila alanbakeri/ e /Emblica rufuschaneyi/. Até breve!
April 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
E acabo este fio com várias imagens para vos apresentar algumhas das plantas #hiperacumuladoras de níquel que som endémicas deste outeiro de #Lompoyou em #Sabah: /Rinorea linearifolia/, /Actephila alanbakeri/ e /Emblica rufuschaneyi/. Até breve!
Hymenocardiinae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenocardiinae
Hymenocardiinae is a subtribe of the plant family Phyllanthaceae. It comprises 2 genera. See also Taxonomy of the Phyllanthaceae References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenocardiinae
Hymenocardiinae is a subtribe of the plant family Phyllanthaceae. It comprises 2 genera. See also Taxonomy of the Phyllanthaceae References
March 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Hymenocardiinae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenocardiinae
Hymenocardiinae is a subtribe of the plant family Phyllanthaceae. It comprises 2 genera. See also Taxonomy of the Phyllanthaceae References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenocardiinae
Hymenocardiinae is a subtribe of the plant family Phyllanthaceae. It comprises 2 genera. See also Taxonomy of the Phyllanthaceae References
The Complete Chloroplast Genome of Baccaurea ramiflora Lour. Cultivar Ha Chau (Phyllanthaceae, Malpighiales) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40104631/
March 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Complete Chloroplast Genome of Baccaurea ramiflora Lour. Cultivar Ha Chau (Phyllanthaceae, Malpighiales) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40104631/
The Complete Chloroplast Genome of Baccaurea ramiflora Lour. Cultivar Ha Chau (Phyllanthaceae, Malpighiales) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40104631/
March 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The Complete Chloroplast Genome of Baccaurea ramiflora Lour. Cultivar Ha Chau (Phyllanthaceae, Malpighiales) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40104631/
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Glochidion liangkwangense (Phyllanthaceae), a new species from Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces, China https://www.gbif.org/dataset/6dc63501-03e8-44db-8e91-ace55f48d7c9
March 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Glochidion liangkwangense (Phyllanthaceae), a new species from Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces, China https://www.gbif.org/dataset/6dc63501-03e8-44db-8e91-ace55f48d7c9
Phyllanthus warnockii (syn Reverchonia warnockii)
The Sand Reverchonia is endemic to quartz sand Dunes found in the Southwestern US.
I found these at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah
#phyllanthuswarnockii #phyllanthaceae #utahflora ##utahbotany #Utahnativeplants #plantsofutah #desertflora
The Sand Reverchonia is endemic to quartz sand Dunes found in the Southwestern US.
I found these at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah
#phyllanthuswarnockii #phyllanthaceae #utahflora ##utahbotany #Utahnativeplants #plantsofutah #desertflora
January 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Phyllanthus warnockii (syn Reverchonia warnockii)
The Sand Reverchonia is endemic to quartz sand Dunes found in the Southwestern US.
I found these at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah
#phyllanthuswarnockii #phyllanthaceae #utahflora ##utahbotany #Utahnativeplants #plantsofutah #desertflora
The Sand Reverchonia is endemic to quartz sand Dunes found in the Southwestern US.
I found these at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah
#phyllanthuswarnockii #phyllanthaceae #utahflora ##utahbotany #Utahnativeplants #plantsofutah #desertflora