Local Name: Botanical Name: Family: Found in Zone No.
ËéÒãµé㺠Phyllanthus urinaria L. EUPHORBIACAE 3, 4, 6
Descriptions : Herb; subtending each side branch, a small, pointed stipule-like leaf with 2 stipules, each with a gland; leaves on side branches alternate, shortly petiolate, usually narrowly oblong, apex rounded, slightly mucronate, base slightly asymmetric, glabrous; stipules pointed, with ±
auricular base; flowers unisexual, axillary; staminate flowers in distal leaf axils of side branches, shortly pedicellate; tepal lobes 6, red and white (red central stripe); stamens 3, filaments fused into column, anthers 3, free, with vertical dehiscence; 6 glands surrounding androecium; pistillate flowers solitary in basal leaf axils of side branches, shortly pedicellate; tepal lobes 6, with red central stripe and clear or white margins; ovary ±
cylindrical, warty, with 3 locules; styles 3, each with 2 recurved arms; ovules 2 per locule, collateral; fruit depressed globose, tuberculate, red, breaking up into cocci; seeds wedge-shaped with transverse ridges.
