Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Poranthera microphylla
Common name
Small poranthera
Family
Phyllanthaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, grassy areas, and roadsides. Widespread.
Notes
Annual herb to 0.2 m tall or sprawling, hairless, sometimes somewhat glaucous. Leaves opposite each other to alternating up the stems, 0.2-1.6 cm long, 1-5 mm wide, flattish in cross section, hairless, sometimes somewhat glaucous, margins slightly curved down or sometimes flat, tips blunt, usually with a short point. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers with 5 white, green, or pink sepals each 0.4-1.5 mm long, and 5 white, pink, or pale mauve petals 0.2-0.6 mm long. Petals sometimes 0 in female flowers. Flowers in clusters 3-8 mm in diameter. Flowers most of the year.
Family was Euphorbiaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
The description above is partly taken from Halford, D.A. & Henderson, R.J.F. (2005) Studies in Euphorbiaceae, s. lat. 6. A revision of the genus Poranthera Rudge (Antidesmeae, Porantherinae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 7 (1): pages 16-19.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Poranthera~microphylla (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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