Phyllanthus acidus

Family: EUPHORBIACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Arinelli, Nakshatranelli, Nellipuli, Nellika-pouli, Pulinelli, Seemanelli

English name(s): Star Gooseberry, Grosella

Habit: Tree

Flowering & Fruiting: December-August

Habitat: Cultivated

Description: Small monoecious trees, to 5 m high. Leaves distichous, 5-8 x 2-4 cm, elliptic to obovate, base rounded, apex gradually acute; petiole to 0.4 cm; stipules toothed. Flowers on leafless branchlets; pedicel to 5 mm.male numerous, to 4 mm across. Tepals 4, unequal, 2+2, ovate, 2mm, 1- nerved, acute. Stamens 4, exserted; filaments recurved, 0.6 mm; anthers oblong, 0.5 mm, dehiscence vertical. Disc glands 4. female: a few, or solitary. Ovary subglobose, 3(4) - lobed; styles 3 or 4, reflexed, forked into subulate arms. Drupe roughly 6-8-angular, depressed - globose, fleshy, ca. 1.5 cm across; endocarp hard.

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