Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Phyllanthus similis

Common name

None

Family

Phyllanthaceae

Where found

Rainforest margins and along streams. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 0.6 m high, rhizomatous, hairless, with distinctly reddish stems and branches. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 0.1–0.2 cm long, 6–10 mm wide, tips blunt to pointed or mucronate. Male and female flowers usually on the same plant. Flowers with 6 'petals' each  about 1.5 mm long. Male flowers in  2-3 flowered clusters, female flowers usually single. Seed case pale yellow-orange, 3.5–4 mm in diameter. 

Family was Euphorbiaceae.

PlantNET description with line drawings:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Phyllanthus~similis  (accessed 31 January, 2021)