Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Phyllanthus occidentalis

Common name

None

Family

Phyllanthaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and heath. Mostly tablelands and Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets hairy to hairy with fine hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4–0.85 cm long, 0.5–3.4 mm wide, hairy with fine hairs, lower surface with longer and denser hairs; margins curved down to strongly rolled down and thickened. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers with 6 'petals' each  0.7–2.2 mm long, Male flowers 1–4 together; female flowers 1 or 2 together. Flowers all year. Seed case hairy to hairy with fine hairs, 2.5–4 mm in diameter.

Family was Euphorbiaceae.

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