Phyllanthus lacunarius

Monoecious annual herb or subshrub to c. 0.3 m high; branchlets ellipsoid to flattened in section. At least some leaves subtending branches reduced to stipule-like scales; normal leaves elliptic or obovate, 6–17 mm long, 2.5–6 mm wide, rounded to c. truncate, sometimes mucronate, glabrous; petioles to 1.5 mm long; stipules triangular, 0.7–2.3 mm long, cream to yellow-brown. Inflorescences with sexes mixed. Male flowers 1–6 per axil; pedicels 0.6–2.3 mm long; sepals 0.4–0.9 mm long, red; disc 0.4–0.6 mm wide; anthers subsessile. Female flowers 1–2 per axil; pedicels at anthesis 0.2–1 mm long, in fruit 1–3 mm long; sepals 0.4–1.1 mm long, white or green; disc 0.5–1 mm wide; styles variously divided, 0.2–0.4 mm long. Capsule transversely ellipsoid, apically depressed, 1.2–2 mm long, 2.5–4.5 mm wide; seeds yellow-brown, orange, pallid-brown or red-brown, 0.9–1.7 mm long, striate, flat-sided. Flowers Dec.–Aug.