Compilation
Phyllanthus friesii

An erect virgate tufted perennial herb up to 60 cm tall, glabrous, dioecious; stems numerous wiry, arising from a stout carrot-shaped woody rootstock.Lead shoots leafy or not, often reddish-green; lateral shoots 5–15 cm long, vertically disposed.Scale leaves 1 mm long, subulate; stipules 1.25 mm long, triangular, auriculate adaxially, purplish-brown.Foliage leaves spirally disposed; petioles 0.3 mm long or leaves subsessile; stipules 1 mm long, linear-lanceolate, brownish.Leaf blades 4–10 × 0.5–1 mm, narrowly elliptic- to oblong-linear, subacute or acute, sometimes mucronate, margins usually involute, tapered to the base, thinly coriaceous, grey-green or glaucous; nerves invisible.Male flowers: pedicels 1 mm long; sepals 6, 2 × 1 mm, oblong, obtuse to rounded, creamy-white, often pink-tinged; disk glands 6, free, 0.3 mm in diameter, rounded, minutely verruculose; stamens 3, filaments connate into a column 1 mm high, anthers 0.5 mm long, sessile, contiguous, vertically held, soleiform, obliquely dehiscent.Female flowers: pedicels 2 mm long, extending to 8 mm in fruit; sepals accresent to 3.5 × 1.5 mm in fruit, reddish-green with a narrow hyaline margin, otherwise as in the male; disk 1 mm in diameter, annular, colliform, thick, slightly crenulate; ovary 0.6 mm in diameter, sessile, 6-lobed, subglobose, smooth; styles 3, ± free, 1.4 mm long, suberect, bifid, the stigmas slightly recurved.Fruit 3 × 4 mm, subglobose, smooth, greenish, often pinkish-tinged.Seeds 1.8–2 × 1.5 × 1.5 mm, segmentiform, pale greyish-brown, with 20–28 shallow darker longitudinal ridges on the dorsal facet, and 12–17 concentric ridges on each ventral facet, with innumerable parallel transverse striae between them.