Phyllanthus L.
Genus comprised of about 1,000 trees, shrubs and herbaceous species, distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions around the world. In North Africa there are 2 woody species that appear in the southern limit of the study area.
Brunel, J.F. 1987. Sur le genre Phyllanthus L. et quelques genres voisins de la tribu des Phyllantheae Dumort (Euphorbiaceae, Phyllantheae) en Afrique intertropicale et à Madagascar. PhD thesis, Laboratoire Morphologie experimentale, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. 472 pp. + Annexes.
Luo, S.X., Esser, H.J., Zhang, D. & Renner, S.S.. 2011. Nuclear ITS sequences help disentangle Phyllanthus reticulatus (Phyllanthaceae), an Asian species not occurring in Africa, but introduced to Jamaica. Systematic Botany 36(1): 99-104.
Key to species
1 Shrub 3(4.5) m in height. Leaves elliptic Phyllanthus reticulatus
1 Perennial herb sometimes with a woody stem, up to 0.8(1) m in height.Leaves linear-lanceolate Phyllanthus maderaspatensis
Updated by: J. Charco.