Phyllanthaceae FAMILY
Phyllanthus muellerianus
Phyllanthus muellerianus
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
3/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitSemi-deciduous Shrub
Growth—
The plant is reported as a weed of rice fields in parts of Nigeria - this is plainly caused by a lack of timely cultivation[1, 2]. The plant can be coppiced[1].
Propagation
Seed - Stem cuttings. Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Phyllanthus+muellerianus>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [1]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
- [2]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/
- [3]Flora Zambesiaca — http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html ↩︎An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants.