Vasilis Teodoridis:
Euphorbiaceae | Glochidion
15. Glochidion puberum (Linnaeus) Hutchinson in Sargent; Pl. Wilson. 2: 518. 1916.
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Agyneia pubera Linnaeus; Mant. Pl. 2: 296. 1771; A. impubes Linnaeus; A. pinnata Miquel; A. sinica Miquel; Bradleia pubera (Linnaeus) Roxburgh; B. sinica Gaertner; Glochidion bodinieri H. Léveillé; G. distichum Hance; G. fortunei Hance; G. fortunei var. megacarpum H. Keng; G. hayatae Croizat & H. Hara var. tsushimense Hurusawa; G. pseudo-obscurum Pam panini; G. pseudo-obscurum var. glabrum Pampanini; G. pseudo-obscurum var. lanceolatum Pampanini; G. sinicum (Gaertner) Hooker & Arnott; Nymphanthus chinensis Loureiro; Phyllanthus puberus (Linnaeus) Müller Argoviensis; P. puberus var. sinicus (Gaertner) Müller Argoviensis; P. villosus Poiret.
Erect shrubs 1-5 m tall; monoecious; much branched; branchlets gray-brown; densely pubescent. Stipules triangular; ca. 1 mm; petiole 1-3 mm; leaf blade oblong; oblong-ovate; or obovate-oblong; rarely lanceolate; 3-8 x 1-2.5 cm; papery or subleathery; gray-green and midvein sparsely pubescent or glabrescent adaxially; greenish and densely pubescent abaxially; base cuneate to obtuse; apex obtuse; acute; shortly acuminate; or rounded; lateral veins 4-8 pairs; elevated abaxially; reticulate nerves prominent. Flowers in axillary clusters; 2-5-flowered; proximal axils mostly to all male flowers; distal axils mostly to all female flowers. Male flowers: pedicels 4-15 mm; sepals 6; narrowly oblong or oblong-obovate; 2.5-3.5 mm; spreading; green to yellowish; densely pubescent outside; stamens 3; connate into a cylindric column. Female flowers: pedicels ca. 1 mm; sepals 6; as in male; but shorter and thicker; green; ovary globose; densely pubescent; 5-10-locular; ovules 2 per locule; style column annular; shortly lobed in summit. Capsules depressed-globose; 8-15 mm in diam.; 8-10-grooved; densely pubescent; reddish when mature; apex with persistent annular styles. Seeds subreniform; 3-angled; ca. 4 mm; red. Fl. Apr-Aug; fr. Jul-Nov.
Slopes; scrub on stream banks; forest margins; 300-2200 m. Anhui; Fujian; Gansu; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Henan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Xizang; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Japan].