Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Phyllanthus gunnii
Common name
Scrubby Spurge
Family
Phyllanthaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, rocky slopes, sheltered gullies, and along streams. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 2.5 m high. Branchlets hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.9–3.3 cm long, 4–20 mm wide, flat, lower surface paler, secondary veins 4–10 per side, tips notched or rounded. Male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant. Flowers with 6 'petals' each 0.9–2.4 mm long, white, yellow or greenish, or the margins whitish. Male flowers in clusters of 1–21, female flowers in clusters of 1–4. Flowers all year. Seed case reddish brown when mature, 3-4.5 mm in diameter.
Family was Euphorbiaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Phyllanthus~gunnii (accessed 31 January, 2021)
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