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Phyllanthus lucens Poir.

Phyllanthaceae · China South-Central, Hainan +4

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About the genus · Phyllanthus

Phyllanthus is the largest genus in the plant family Phyllanthaceae. Estimates of the number of species in this genus vary widely, from 750 to 1200. Phyllanthus has a remarkable diversity of growth forms including annual and perennial herbs, shrubs, climbers, floating aquatics, and pachycaulous succulents. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Phyllanthus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 5383018 (Phyllanthus lucens Poir., 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 5383018 (Phyllanthus lucens Poir.): Kew's file holds it as Phyllanthus lucens Poir. (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: Agnes Trekker, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Sus scrofa, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Toby Y, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; portioid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; CYL, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Phyllanthus 53 in the reference

Phyllanthus abnormis Phyllanthus abnormis Drummond's leaf-flower Photo: CC0, author not statedPhyllanthus acidus Phyllanthus acidus Otaheite gooseberry Photo: CC BY, Annika LindqvistPhyllanthus albiflorus Phyllanthus albiflorus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Ethel AardvarkPhyllanthus amarus Phyllanthus amarus Carry me seed Photo: CC BY, Raja Sekhar ChimiralaPhyllanthus anamalayanus Phyllanthus anamalayanus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Srinivasan KasinathanPhyllanthus angustifolius Phyllanthus angustifolius Foliage flower Photo: CC0, author not statedPhyllanthus arbuscula Phyllanthus arbuscula Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, User:BotBlnPhyllanthus assamicus Phyllanthus assamicus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, VinayarajPhyllanthus buxifolius Phyllanthus buxifolius Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPhyllanthus calycinus Phyllanthus calycinus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Millie BradyPhyllanthus caroliniensis Phyllanthus caroliniensis Carolina leaf-flower Photo: CC BY, Christopher EvansPhyllanthus cernuus Phyllanthus cernuus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Thomas Mesaglio all 54 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Andrachne fruticosa; Breynia fruticosa; Phyllanthus simsianus; Melanthesa chinensis; Melanthesa glaucescens and 2 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Phyllanthaceae
Described by
Poir.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +3
Wild records
none in range

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Phyllanthus lucens Poir. (plant_name_id 154251), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 5383018, Phyllanthus lucens Poir. (Kew's file holds it as Phyllanthus lucens Poir. (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 354191-1, POWO 354191-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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