Trees & Plants

Grosella

Goanbili

Phyllanthus acidus (L.) Skeels

Common in homesteads Fruit is widely used for culinary purposes and to treat digestive disorders, bronchitis, diarrhea, piles and urinary . Leaves and roots are used against viper venom. - NARAHDISAS .N/OAF

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uses: Fruit is widely used for culinary purposes and to treat digestive disorders, bronchitis, diarrhea, piles and urinary . Leaves and roots are used against viper venom. - NARAHDISAS .N/OAF
family: Euphorbiaceae
synonym: Averrhoa acida L., Phyllanthus acidissimus (Blanco) Müll. Arg.
description: Small monoecious trees. × Leaves distichous, 5-8 2-4 cm, elliptic to obovate, base rounded, apex gradually acute; petiole to 0.4 cm; stipules toothed. Flowers on leafless branchlets; pedicel to 5 mm, male flowers numerous, to 4 mm across. Tepals 4, unequal, 2+2, 2mm. Stamens 4, exserted; filaments recurved, 0.6 mm; anthers oblong, 0.5 mm, dehiscence vertical. Disc glands 4. Female flowers a few, or solitary. Ovary subglobose, 3 - lobed; styles 3 or 4, reflexed. Drupe roughly 6-8-angular, depressed- globose, fleshy, 1.5 cm across; endocarp hard.
native range: Uncertain
distribution: Asia, parts of Central America, the Caribbean and parts of South America.
english names: Grosella · Country gooseberry
flowering fruiting: December – August
occurrence maldives: Common in homesteads