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Umbrella Cheese Tree
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Umbrella Cheese Tree

Glochidion zeylanicum

Phyllanthus obliquus is a species of flowering plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is a shrub or tree which ranges from the Indian subcontinent through Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Japan, Malesia, and Papuasia to northern Australia and Vanuatu.

The species was first described as Agyneia obliqua by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1805. In 1865 Johannes Müller Argoviensis placed it in genus Phyllanthus as Phyllanthus obliquus.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 340543.