Phyllanthus brevipes Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 297. 1887; Kanjilal et al., Fl. Assam 4: 154. 1940.

Undershrubs, ca 45 cm high, entirely glabrous; branches terete, up to 20 cm long, densely leafy. Leaves arising on all branches, obovate-oblong to obovate-elliptic or elliptic, acute, subacute or rounded at base, obtuse to rounded or subacute at apex, 8 - 25 x 5 - 12 mm, firmly chartaceous, pale greyish and glaucescent beneath; lateral nerves 5 - 8 pairs, raised on both surfaces; petioles 1 - 2 mm long; stipules broadly ovate, ca 0.8 mm long, fimbriate, membranous. Inflorescences arising in all leaf axils; cymules unisexual or bisexual with 1 male and 1 female flower, subtended by tufts of bracts; bracts sub-flabellate, ca 0.5 x 1 mm, fimbriate, scarious. Male flowers: pedicels ca 1.5 mm long; sepals 3 + 3, flabellate-obovate, ca 1 x 0.8 mm, entire; disc glands distinct, orbicular; stamens 3, ca 1.2 mm long; filaments united below into a column (about half way), free above; anthers orbicular, vertically dehiscent. Female flowers: pedicels 3 - 4 mm long; sepals 3 + 3, obovate or ovate, ca 1 x 0.5 mm, entire; disc deeply 6-lobed; ovary subglobose, ca 0.6 x 1 mm; styles 3, ca 0.5 mm long, free, bifid, recurved. Fruits subglobose, often depressed or ovoid, ca 2 x 3 mm, 3-lobed, smooth.

Fl. Dec.

Distrib. India: Arunachal Pradesh.

Endemic