{"id":1416836,"date":"2016-01-16T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T08:50:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:54:59","slug":"phyllanthus-macrocalyx","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/phyllanthus-macrocalyx\/","title":{"rendered":"Phyllanthus macrocalyx"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phyllanthus<\/i> macrocalyx<\/i> M\u00fcll.Arg., Linnaea 32: 48 1863<\/em>. (syn: Diasperus<\/span><\/i> macrocalyx<\/span><\/i> (M\u00fcll.Arg.) Kuntze<\/span><\/a>; Reidia<\/span><\/i> macrocalyx<\/span><\/i> (M\u00fcll.Arg.) Gamble<\/span><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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SW. India<\/span> (as per POWO<\/span><\/a>);
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Much-branched subshrub. Leaves alternate, up to 6 x 2.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute or obtuse, rounded at base, equal-sided; nerves 6-8 pair, very slender; stipules small, lanceolate, caducous. Flowers monoecious, axillary, solitary, male and female in fasicles, the male with rather short filiform pedicels, the female with longer pedicels widening upwards; bracts very small, often numerous and imbricate. Calyx-lobes of male not dentate or lacerate, in female greatly enlarged in fruit and closely imbricate; disk in male annular, in female saucer-shaped; styles reflexed, 2-fid to the middle. Stamens 2 or 4, the filaments united in a column around a pistillode; anthers dehiscing horizontally. Ovary 3-celled, 2 ovules 1 in each cell; styles 3, deeply 2-fid. Fruit a capsule of 3 thinly crustaceous 2-valved cocci; seeds triangular, glabrous or appressed hairy; cotyledons oblong.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Evergreen forests<\/span><\/div>\n
Southern Western Ghats (endemic)
\n<\/span>(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from <\/span>India Biodiversity Portal<\/span><\/a>)
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Rediscovery of phyllanthus macrocalyx<\/a> :
\nPls go through the link: <\/span>http:\/\/www.currentscience.ac.<\/span>in\/Volumes\/110\/01\/0033.pdf<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Good work, … <\/span>Congrats to you & your team.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Congratulations … Best wishes for future endeavors. All your articles related to new records and new discoveries are classics. Enjoyed a lot while reading those details and the plates are also meticulously presented.<\/p>\n

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Well done …,\u00a0 Keep it up. Forward it to … for inclusion in plant discovery 2015.<\/p>\n

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Very good exploratory work resulting in such publications. I appreciate you for selecting Current Science as the medium to publish your rediscovery.
\nI know many more are in line!<\/div>\n
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References:
\n<\/span>POWO<\/a> \u00a0The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0WCSP<\/a> \u00a0IPNI<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0BSI Flora of India<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0JSTOR<\/a> (Specimen) India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> \u00a0IBIS Flora<\/a>\u00a0 Kerala plants<\/a>\u00a0 Flora of Peninsular India<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phyllanthus macrocalyx M\u00fcll.Arg., Linnaea 32: 48 1863. (syn: Diasperus macrocalyx (M\u00fcll.Arg.) Kuntze; Reidia macrocalyx (M\u00fcll.Arg.) Gamble); . SW. India (as per POWO); . Much-branched subshrub. Leaves alternate, up to 6 x 2.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute or obtuse, rounded at base, equal-sided; nerves 6-8 pair, very slender; stipules small,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5104],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1416836","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-phyllanthus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1416836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1416836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1416836"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1416836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}