Phyllanthus Officinalis
''Phyllanthus'' is the largest genus in the plant family Phyllanthaceae. Estimates of the number of species in this genus vary widely, from 750David J. Mabberley. 2008. ''Mabberley's Plant-Book.'' third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press. to 1200. ''Phyllanthus'' has a remarkable diversity of growth forms including annual and perennial herbs, shrubs, climbers, floating aquatics, and pachycaulous succulents. Some have flattened leaflike stems called cladodes. It has a wide variety of floral morphologies and chromosome numbers and has one of the widest range of pollen types of any seed plant genus. Despite their variety, almost all ''Phyllanthus'' species express a specific type of growth called "phyllanthoid branching" in which the vertical stems bear deciduous, floriferous (flower-bearing), plagiotropic (horizontal or oblique) stems. The leaves on the main (vertical) axes are reduced to scales called "cataphylls", while leaves on the other axes develop normally. ...
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Phyllanthus Mirabilis
''Phyllanthus mirabilis'' is a plant species of family Phyllanthaceae and is native to Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. It is one of the only four ''Phyllanthus'' to be caudiciform and the one of the only two caudiciform ''Phyllanthus'' to be described, with the other being ''Phyllanthus kaweesakii''. The leaves fold together at night. Wild plants are found on limestone Limestone ( ca