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Taxon: Phyllanthus amarus Schumach.

Genus: Phyllanthus
Family: Phyllanthaceae subfamily: Phyllanthoideae. Also placed in: Euphorbiaceae
Nomen number: 401814
Place of publication: Beskr. Guin. pl. 421. 1827
Comment: authorship verified from original literature, where the name and diagnosis together are ascribed to Schumacher (Vienna ICBN Art. 46, Ex. 14), although the description is ascribed to Thonning
Name verified on: 25-Aug-2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Aug-2008
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • arrebenta-pedra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  • fura-pedra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  • quebra-pedra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
    Mexico
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
    Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (U.S.)
    Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
    Brazil: Brazil
    Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
    Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay
Other:
  • naturalized in paleotropics

References:

  • Airy Shaw, H. K. 1971. The Euphorbiaceae of Siam. Kew Bull. 26:317.
  • Airy Shaw, H. K. 1975. The Euphorbiaceae of Borneo. Kew Bull. add. ser., 4:182.
  • Airy Shaw, H. K. 1980. The Euphorbiaceae of New Guinea. Kew Bull. add. ser., 8:182–183.
  • Airy Shaw, H. K. 1981. The Euphorbiaceae of Sumatra. Kew Bull. 36:336–337.
  • Airy Shaw, H. K. 1982. The Euphorbiaceae of Central Malesia (Celebes, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Is.). Kew Bull. 37:31.
  • Balakrishnan, N. P. & T. Chakrabarty. 2007. The family Euphorbiaceae in India; a synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography. (Euphorb India)
  • Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
  • Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae. (L Micrones)
  • George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust) 50:264.
  • Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae. (L Euphorb)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
  • Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. (L Ecuador)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):387.
  • Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
  • Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
  • Webster, G. L. 1957. A monographic study of the West Indian species of Phyllanthus. J. Arnold Arbor. 38:313.
  • Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Check other databases for Phyllanthus amarus Schumach.:

  • Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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