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|accepted_name=Phyllanthus angustifolius
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Ind. Occid.
|place=2: 1111. 1800
|year=1800
}}
|common_names=Foliage flower;swordbush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Xylophylla angustifolia
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|publication_title=Prodr.,
|publication_place=28. 1788
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Phyllanthaceae;Phyllanthus;Phyllanthus angustifolius
|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 angustifolius]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 335, 336
|treatment_page=page 345
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> monoecious, 10–30 dm; branching phyllanthoid. <b>Stems</b>: main stems terete, not winged, glabrous; ultimate branchlets deciduous, flat cladodes to 1 cm wide, not winged, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> on main stems deciduous, spiral, scalelike; stipules not auriculate, dark brown. <b>Leaves</b> on ultimate branchlets caducous, distichous, scalelike; stipules absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymules, bisexual or staminate, with 1–2(–3) pistillate and/or 2–5 staminate flowers. <b>Pedicels</b>: staminate (1–)2–6 mm, pistillate spreading in fruit, (1–)2–4(–7) mm. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 6, purplish pink to cream, flat, (0.8–)1–1.5(–2.3) mm; nectary extrastaminal, 6 distinct glands; stamens 3(–5), filaments connate 1/2–3/4 length. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 6, purplish pink to cream, flat, 1–1.5(–2.2) mm, 1-veined; nectary annular, undulate or crenulate. <b>Capsules</b> 3–4 mm diam., finely wrinkled. <b>Seeds</b> uniformly brown, 1.4–2.6 mm, irregularly verrucose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed hammocks.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Cayman Islands;Jamaica;Swan Islands).
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Phyllanthus angustifolius</i> is cultivated as an ornamental throughout the West Indies and in Florida. It has become naturalized in southern Florida (Miami-Dade and Monroe counties). The flattened ultimate branchlets are strikingly leaflike; their correct homology is demonstrated by the cymules of flowers borne along the margins. J. K. Small (1933) referred the Florida plants to Xylophylla angustifolia <i></i>var.<i> linearis</i> Swartz, but that name is a synonym of P. arbuscula (Swartz) J. F. Gmelin, a West Indian species that also is cultivated in Florida but does not appear to have become naturalized there.</p>
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name=Phyllanthus angustifolius
|authority=(Swartz) Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Xylophylla angustifolia
|family=Phyllanthaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed hammocks.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Cayman Islands;Jamaica;Swan Islands).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Ind. Occid.
|publication year=1800
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Phyllanthus
|species=Phyllanthus angustifolius
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