Vasilis Teodoridis:
Euphorbiaceae | Glochidion
21. Glochidion wrightii Bentham; Fl. Hongk. 313. 1861.
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Diasperus wrightii (Bentham) Kuntze; Phyllanthus wrightii (Bentham) Müller Argoviensis.
Shrubs or treelets 1-8 m tall; monoecious; glabrous throughout. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate; often obliquely falcate; 2.5-5.5 x 1.5-2.5 cm; papery; green adaxially; farinose-greenish abaxially; gray-glaucous when dry; base acute; inequilateral; apex acuminate; lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs. Flowers in bisexual clusters. Female flowers subsessile; sepals 6; biseriate; outer wider and thicker than inner; ovate; elliptic; or oblong; ca. 1 mm; ovary globose; 3- or 4-locular; style columns cylindric; less than 1 mm. Capsules triangular; depressed globose; 6-8 mm in diam.; red; with a persistent style column. Fl. May-Sep; fr. Jul-Nov.
? Open forests or scrub; 200-1000 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Yunnan.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Euphorbiaceae | Glochidion
21. Glochidion wrightii Bentham; Fl. Hongk. 313. 1861.
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Diasperus wrightii (Bentham) Kuntze; Phyllanthus wrightii (Bentham) Müller Argoviensis.
Shrubs or treelets 1-8 m tall; monoecious; glabrous throughout. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate; often obliquely falcate; 2.5-5.5 x 1.5-2.5 cm; papery; green adaxially; farinose-greenish abaxially; gray-glaucous when dry; base acute; inequilateral; apex acuminate; lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs. Flowers in bisexual clusters. Female flowers subsessile; sepals 6; biseriate; outer wider and thicker than inner; ovate; elliptic; or oblong; ca. 1 mm; ovary globose; 3- or 4-locular; style columns cylindric; less than 1 mm. Capsules triangular; depressed globose; 6-8 mm in diam.; red; with a persistent style column. Fl. May-Sep; fr. Jul-Nov.
? Open forests or scrub; 200-1000 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Yunnan.