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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
Ferns
Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
Genera
Families
Phyllanthaceae
Each locule of
ovary
with 2 ovules, but only one may develop in fruit (previously Euphorbiaceae)
Phyllanthaceae
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Petals present
Poranthera
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Diffuse
,
glabrous
,
annual
herb
8–15 cm high, with
ascending
branches. Leaves
linear
-
spathulate
to
obovate
, flat or nearly so, mostly 2–5 mm long; stipules
entire
. Flowers
minute
, in leafy corymbs. Widespread. Shady places. Fl. spring–summer
Poranthera microphylla
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Small,
perennial
shrubs