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Phyllanthus niruri (gale of the wind)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Phyllanthus niruri is a widespread tropical plant commonly found in coastal areas, known by the common names gale of the wind, stonebreaker or seed-under-leaf. It is a relative of the spurges, belonging to the Phyllanthus genus of Family Phyllanthaceae.
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Infraspecies

Phyllanthus niruri lathryroides
Phyllanthus niruri lathyroides (Attributes)
Phyllanthus niruri niruri (Attributes)
Phyllanthus niruri var. tenuicaulis

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Structure [1]  Herb

Protected Areas

Predators

Ferrisia virgata (grey mealybug)[3]
Maconellicoccus hirsutus (pink hibiscus mealybug)[3]
Phenacoccus solenopsis (solenopsis mealybug)[3]
Pinnaspis aspidistrae[3]
Planococcus minor (Pacific mealybug)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0