Meineckia parvifolia (Wight) G.L.Webster in Acta Bot. Neerl. 14: 342., ff. 5, 11, 19. 1965; Sivar. & Manilal in J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 72: 237. 1975. Peltandra parvifolia Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1892. 1852. Phyllanthus peltandrus Müll.Arg. in Linnaea 32: 11. 1863. Neopeltandra parvifolia (Wight) Alston in Trimen Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6 (Suppl.): 256. 1931. Phyllanthus thwaitesianus Müll.Arg. l. c. 11. 1863; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 287. 1887. P. suberosus Wight ex Müll.Arg. l. c. 11. 1863; Hook.f., l. c. 287. 1887. Neopeltandra suberosa (Wight ex Müll.Arg.) Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1286. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 900. 1957).

Shrubs or perennial woody herbs up to 1 m high; branchlets minutely pubescent to glabrous. Leaves on stems up to twice larger than those on branches, narrowly ovate, ovate, ovate-elliptic, ovate-oblong, elliptic to suborbicular or oblong-elliptic, acute, obtuse, rounded or unequal at base, entire, acute, subacute, rounded or apiculate at apex, 1.6 - 8 x 1 - 4.5 cm, membranous, glabrous; lateral nerves 4 - 7 pairs; petioles slender, 2 – 5 (-25) mm long. Inflorescences axillary, very short racemes of both male and female flowers together. Male flowers: clustered on short peduncles or solitary at leaf-axils; pedicels filiform, 2 – 4 mm long; sepals 5, oblong-ovate, ca 1 x 0.8 mm; disc cupular or campanulate, 5-lobed; stamens 5, rarely 3, ca 9 mm long; filaments united below into ca 0.5 mm long column, trifid above; anthers up to 0.2 mm long. Female flowers: axillary, solitary; pedicels up to 2 cm long; sepals 5, ovate-orbicular, ca 1 x 1 mm; disc annular, ca 1 mm in diam.; ovary subglobose, ca 0.7 mm in diam., glabrous, 3- locular; styles 3, free, ca 0.6 mm long, bifid above. Fruits subglobose or depressed-globose, shallowly 3-lobed, ca 3 x 2 mm, glabrous.

Fl. & Fr. June - Jan.

Distrib. India: Subtropical evergreen forests at 1200 - 1800 m altitudes. Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala (Kozhikode Dist., Sivarajan & Manilal, l. c.).

Sri Lanka.