Index / Search / Phyllanthus tenellus
§1 Plant
Phyllanthus tenellus Roxb.
vernacular Mascarene Island leaf-flower — species · Euphorbiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Phyllanthus
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
County-level range
· 68 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 68 counties across 11 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 38 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHTE5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5381097 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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