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Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.

Hong Kong Abacus Plant; Umbrella Cheese Tree; Buttonwood; Large-leaved buttonwood

Phyllanthaceae · China South-Central, Hainan +29

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Wall., 1847.

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Phyllanthus obliquus, photograph Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhyllanthus obliquus, photograph Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhyllanthus obliquus, photograph Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhyllanthus obliquus, photograph Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhyllanthus obliquus, photograph Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 6 photographs ›

Summary

Phyllanthus obliquus is a species of flowering plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is a shrub or tree which ranges from the Indian subcontinent through Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Japan, Malesia, and Papuasia to northern Australia and Vanuatu.

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

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: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast, Tibet, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya, Andaman Is., Cambodia, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Northern Territory, Queensland, Vanuatu · 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” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker in the same place. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3080579 (Agyneia obliqua Willd.): Kew's file holds it as Agyneia obliqua Willd. (synonym under Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 3080584 (Bradleia obliqua (Willd.) Spreng.): Kew's file holds it as Bradleia obliqua (Willd.) Spreng. (synonym under Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 3080596 (Glochidion obliquum (Willd.) Decne.): Kew's file holds it as Glochidion obliquum (Willd.) Decne. (synonym under Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.); 1 record, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 3080601 (Diasperus obliquus (Willd.) Kuntze): Kew's file holds it as Diasperus obliquus (Willd.) Kuntze (synonym under Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 5381484 (Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.): Kew's file holds it as Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg. (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

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 Glochidion zeylanicum var. zeylanicum; Agyneia flexuosa; Agyneia obliqua; Bradleia nitida; Bradleia obliqua and 29 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Phyllanthaceae
Described by
(Willd.) Müll.Arg.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +28
Wild records
2 in range · 1 open

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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 8258238 is Phyllanthus obliquus Wall., 1847; Kew accepts Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg., and the name is cited as Kew accepts it; its synonyms and common names are read from GBIF's Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg. (5381484), which GBIF files under Glochidion zeylanicum var. zeylanicum (7225966) too
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-2237 read from GBIF's Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg. (5381484), which GBIF files under Glochidion zeylanicum var. zeylanicum (7225966)
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 3080579, Agyneia obliqua Willd. (Kew's file holds it as Agyneia obliqua Willd. (synonym under Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 3080584, Bradleia obliqua (Willd.) Spreng. (Kew's file holds it as Bradleia obliqua (Willd.) Spreng. (synonym under Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 1 record of GBIF's key 3080596, Glochidion obliquum (Willd.) Decne. (Kew's file holds it as Glochidion obliquum (Willd.) Decne. (synonym under Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 3080601, Diasperus obliquus (Willd.) Kuntze (Kew's file holds it as Diasperus obliquus (Willd.) Kuntze (synonym under Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 5381484, Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg. (Kew's file holds it as Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg. (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 354371-1 is Kew's for Phyllanthus obliquus (Willd.) Müll.Arg.
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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