Phyllanthaceae FAMILY
Phyllanthus nummulariifolius
Phyllanthus nummulariifolius
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Phyllanthus nummulariifolius is an erect perennial plant with more or less woody stems that persist; it can grow up to 1.7 metres tall[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description 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/ ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeTropical Africa - Guinea to Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, south to Angola, Botswana, S. Africa, also in Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion.
HabitatDense riverine forest, woodland, forest edges and grassland, often in seasonally wet and disturbed localities, but also in shallow pockets of soil on granite inselbergs in Acacia- Commiphora vegetation, at elevations up to 2,100 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].