Emblica urinaria (Linnaeus) R.W. Bouman
Detail
- Family
- Phyllanthaceae
- Botanical Name
- Emblica urinaria (Linnaeus) R.W. Bouman
- Common Name
- Chamber Bitter
- Synonym(s)
- Phyllanthus urinaria L. ssp. urinaria
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Phyllanthus urinaria L. ssp. urinaria
- Comments
- Phyllanthus, as traditionally circumscribed, is an enormous, paraphyletic genus. To maintain monophyly, the choice here is to either include several traditionally recognized Asian, Australian, and North American genera in a broad monophyletic Phyllanthus, or split Phyllanthus up into numerous monophyletic genera. According to John Hayden, because Bouman et al. (2021, Taxon 70: 72-98 and 2022, Phytotaxa 540(1): 1-100) have executed such a comprehensive overhaul of the intimidatingly large genus, the super-splitting approach appears preferable to investing a huge amount of time and resources to align the older framework of subgenera and many sections with the new phylogeny. Our only native Phyllanthus caroliniensis ssp. caroliniensis remains in the newly paired down Phyllanthus sensu stricto. As followed here, Phyllanthus urinaria ssp. urinaria is transferred to the genus Emblica .
- Habitat
- A weed around greenhouses, gardens, mulched beds, parking lots, and waste ground.
- Native Status
- Introduced
To save this map, right-click (control-click for Mac users) on the map and choose "Save Image As...".