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|accepted_name=Phyllanthus fraternus
|accepted_authority=G. L. Webster
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. Gray Herb.
|place=176: 53. 1955
|year=1955
}}
|common_names=Gulf leafflower
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Phyllanthus niruri var. scabrellus
|authority=Müller Arg.
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Linnaea
|publication_place=32: 43. 1863
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Phyllanthaceae;Phyllanthus;Phyllanthus fraternus
|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 fraternus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 337
|treatment_page=page 342
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, monoecious, 1–4 dm; branching phyllanthoid. <b>Stems</b>: main stems angled, not winged, glabrous; ultimate branchlets subterete, narrowly winged, ± scabridulous. <b>Leaves</b> on main stems spiral, scalelike; stipules not auriculate, pale green to nearly white. <b>Leaves</b> on ultimate branchlets distichous, well developed; stipules not auriculate, pale green to nearly white; blade elliptic-oblong, 6–11 × 3–5 mm, base cuneate to obtuse, apex rounded, both surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymules or flowers solitary, unisexual, proximal with 2–3 staminate flowers, distal with 1 pistillate flower. <b>Pedicels</b>: staminate 0.2–0.5 mm, pistillate spreading in fruit, 1.3–2 mm. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 6, white to pale yellow, flat, 0.4–0.7 mm; nectary extrastaminal, 6 glands; stamens 3, filaments connate throughout. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 6, green with broad white margins, flat, (1–)1.2–1.5 mm, 1-veined; nectary annular, 6–9-lobed. <b>Capsules</b> 2.1 mm diam., smooth. <b>Seeds</b> uniformly brown, 0.9–1.1 mm, longitudinally ribbed.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Fields, roadsides, gardens, other disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–30 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;Tex.;s Asia (India;Pakistan);introduced also in West Indies;Bermuda;w Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands.
|discussion=<p><i>Phyllanthus fraternus</i>, native to Pakistan and northwest India, apparently was introduced into the United States in the 1950s, first in Louisiana, and has spread mainly along the Gulf Coast.</p>
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name=Phyllanthus fraternus
|authority=G. L. Webster
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Phyllanthus niruri var. scabrellus
|family=Phyllanthaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Fields, roadsides, gardens, other disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–30 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;Tex.;s Asia (India;Pakistan);introduced also in West Indies;Bermuda;w Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. Gray Herb.
|publication year=1955
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_656.xml
|genus=Phyllanthus
|species=Phyllanthus fraternus
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