Poranthera microphylla
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| Small poranthera | |
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| Growing in Baluk Willam Nature Conservation Reserve, Belgrave South, Victoria. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Phyllanthaceae |
| Genus: | Poranthera |
| Species: | P. microphylla |
| Binomial name | |
| Poranthera microphylla | |
Poranthera microphylla, commonly known as small poranthera,[2] is a flowering plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is a small, widespread Australian herb with blue-grey leaves and white flowers.
Poranthera microphylla is a decumbent or more or less upright, slender, densely branched, annual herb up to 30 cm (12 in) high. It has soft, smooth branches, egg to spoon-shaped blue-grey leaves, thin, usually 4–15 mm (0.16–0.59 in) long, 8–15 cm (3.1–5.9 in) wide, margins more or less flat or slightly recurved, petiole 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long, apex blunt or rounded and mostly with a short, triangular point. The flowers are in a corymb about 0.3–0.8 cm (0.12–0.31 in) across, petals white or pink, bracts narrowly egg-shaped, up to about 4 mm (0.16 in) long and on a pedicels to 1.5 mm (0.059 in). Flowering occurs mostly from September to April and the fruit is a 3-lobed capsule 1.5–2 cm (0.59–0.79 in) in diameter, white and warty.[2][3]