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|accepted_name=Phyllanthus acidus
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Skeels
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull.
|place=148: 17. 1909
|year=1909
}}
|common_names=Otaheite or Tahitian gooseberry tree
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Averrhoa acida
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 428. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cicca acida
|authority=(Linnaeus) Merrill
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=C. disticha
|authority=Linnaeus
}}
|hierarchy=Phyllanthaceae;Phyllanthus;Phyllanthus acidus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Phyllanthaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Phyllanthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Phyllanthus acidus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 335, 336
|treatment_page=page 341
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> monoecious, 20–100 dm; branching phyllanthoid. <b>Stems</b>: main stems and ultimate branchlets terete, not winged, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> on main stems deciduous, spiral, scalelike; stipules not auriculate, dark brown. <b>Leaves</b> on ultimate branchlets deciduous with branchlets, distichous, well developed; stipules not auriculate, dark brown; blade broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, (40–)50–90 × (20–)25–45 mm, base obtuse or rounded, apex acute, both surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymules on leafless short shoots, on old wood bisexual with 1–9 pistillate flowers and 25–40 staminate flowers, on new growth bisexual on proximal shoots with 1–2 pistillate flowers and 8–12 staminate flowers, staminate on distal shoots with 8–12 flowers. <b>Pedicels</b>: staminate 1.5–3 mm, pistillate spreading in fruit, 2.3–5(–6) mm. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 4, reddish purple with pink to white margins, flat, 1.1–1.4(–1.5) mm; nectary extrastaminal, 4 glands; stamens (3–)4, filaments distinct. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 4, green to reddish purple with pink to white margins, flat, (1–)1.2–1.4 mm, 1-veined; nectary annular, 4-lobed. <b>Drupes</b> greenish yellow to white, (12–)15–20(–25) mm diam., smooth. <b>Seeds</b> uniformly brown, 3.3–3.5 mm, smooth. <b>2n</b> = 26 (West Indies).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed sites.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;South America (Brazil);introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;elsewhere in South America;Asia;Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Phyllanthus acidus</i> is widely cultivated in the tropics and subtropics for its edible drupes. In the flora area, it is known sparingly from Collier and Monroe counties.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Phyllanthus acidus
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Skeels
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cicca acida;C. disticha
|basionyms=Averrhoa acida
|family=Phyllanthaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed sites.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;South America (Brazil);introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;elsewhere in South America;Asia;Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull.
|publication year=1909
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_196.xml
|genus=Phyllanthus
|species=Phyllanthus acidus
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