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|accepted_name=Phyllanthus amarus
|accepted_authority=Schumacher & Thonning in H. C. F. Schumacher
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Beskr. Guin. Pl.,
|place=421. 1827
|year=1827
}}
|common_names=Carry me seed;dixie leafflower;gale of wind
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Phyllanthaceae;Phyllanthus;Phyllanthus amarus
|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 amarus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 335, 337, 343
|treatment_page=page 342
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, monoecious, 1–5 dm; branching phyllanthoid. <b>Stems</b>: main stems terete, not winged, glabrous; ultimate branchlets subterete, not winged, glabrous or slightly scabridulous proximally. <b>Leaves</b> on main stems spiral, scalelike; stipules not auriculate, pale brown. <b>Leaves</b> on ultimate branchlets distichous, well developed; stipules not auriculate, pale green with pale brown margins; blade elliptic-oblong to obovate, 5–11 × 3–6 mm, base obtuse or rounded, apex obtuse to rounded, often apiculate, both surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymules or flowers solitary, proximal staminate with 1–2 flowers, distal bisexual with 1 pistillate flower and 1 staminate flower. <b>Pedicels</b>: staminate 0.6–1.3 mm, pistillate spreading in fruit, (1–)1.2–2 mm. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 5(–6), pale green, flat, 0.3–0.6 mm; nectary extrastaminal, 5 glands; stamens (2–)3, filaments connate throughout. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals (5–)6, green with broad pale green to white margins, flat, 0.8–1.1 mm, 1-veined; nectary annular, 5(–7)-lobed. <b>Capsules</b> 1.9–2.1 mm diam., smooth. <b>Seeds</b> uniformly brown, 0.9–1 mm, longitudinally ribbed. <b>2n</b> = 52 (Jamaica).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Fields, roadsides, gardens, other disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Phyllanthus amarus</i>, a pantropical weed, appears to be native to the American tropics. In the flora area, it is naturalized only in southern Florida, where it apparently was introduced sometime in the second half of the nineteenth century. It has been found in nursery stock in California (G. F. Hrusa, pers. comm.) and may become naturalized there.</p>
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|authority=Schumacher & Thonning in H. C. F. Schumacher
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|family=Phyllanthaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Fields, roadsides, gardens, other disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Beskr. Guin. Pl.,
|publication year=1827
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Phyllanthus
|species=Phyllanthus amarus
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