Euphorbiaceae Phyllanthus cf. elsiae Urb.

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Places where this species can be found :

• Oaxaca - HUGHESFRP
• Barra de la Cruz - HUGHESFRP
• Cerro de los Metates - HUGHESFRP
• Salto de Eyipantla - HUGHESFRP
• Plan del Rio - HUGHESFRP
• Pinotepa Nacional - HUGHESFRP
• Revolucion - HUGHESFRP
• Yerba Santa - HUGHESFRP
• San Agustin Chayuco - HUGHESFRP
• Tetetla - HUGHESFRP
• Cacahuatepec - HUGHESFRP
• Atoyaquillo - HUGHESFRP
• Ojo de Agua - HUGHESFRP
• San Juan Guichicovi - HUGHESFRP
• Santa Maria Chimalapa - HUGHESFRP
• Puerto Escondido - HUGHESFRP
• Salto de Agua - HUGHESFRP
• Santiago Tuxtla - HUGHESFRP
• Huaxpaltepec - HUGHESFRP
• San Gabriel Mixtepec - HUGHESFRP
• Jamiltepec - HUGHESFRP
• Matias Romero - HUGHESFRP
• Rio Grande - HUGHESFRP

Specimen information

Collection Date
26/02/2000

Collector
Hughes CE

Specimen Number
1956

Location
2km E of Barra de la Cruz, on the rear of the beach.

Notes
Small tree to 6m ht with a large round crown to ground level, the larger branches spreading and pendulous to ground level. Bole very fluted, multistemmed and intertwined. Outer bark dark grey-brown, very finely vertically wrinkled. Slash soft, chunky, fibrous, deep liver with a darker deep blackish maroon layer beneath inner bark. Leaves pinnate, leaflets alternate, plasticy paper texture, sl. glossy on upper surface, sl. glaucous on lower surface. Flowers small, cream-green tinged maroon on calyx lobes, densely clustered on axillary spikes on older woody shoots. Locally abundant in damper, dune slack hollows with deep black vertisol soils in very open selva baja with Coccoloba, Trichilia, Sideroxylon and Capparis.

Coordinates
Latitude: 15.490000 N   Longitude: 95.540000 W   Altitude: 5