Glochidion puber

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Family:PHYLLANTHACEAE
Species:Glochidion puber (L.) Hutch.
Common Name:Needlebush; Cheesetree
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Growth Habit:Shrub
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:Needlebush is an introduced deciduous, thicket-forming shrub in the Leaf Flower family (Phyllanthaceae). It is native to China and Japan, It Alabama it is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental and occasionally becomes naturalized. It occurs around old home sites, on stream banks, along urban forest margins, and on roadsides. Needlebush is an erect shrub or small tree reaching 12-20 feet in height. It forms thickets from root sprouts. The bark on larger stems and the trunk is dark brown with narrow furrows. The younger stems are green and pubescent. There are two types of leaves produced-small scale-like leaves arranged spirally on the main branches and well-developed leaves on short, deciduous phyllanthoid branchs that appear like pinnately compound leaves. These leaves are alternate, distichous, petiolate, oblong to lanceolate in outline, glabrous above and densely pubescent below, with entire margins. Flowers are produced in axillary unisexual or bisexual fascicles of 2-5 flowers. The individual flowers have 6 greenish sepals and no petals. Male flowers have 3 stamens that are fused into a cylindric column. Female flowers have a 5-10-locular ovary. The fruit is a flattened, rounded, pubescent capsule with 10 segments each containing 2 seed. The seed are orange-red in color. In China various extracts of Needlebush are used to treat dysentery, diarrhea, coughs, and other ailments. The seeds are crushed to obtain an oil that is used as a lubricant and for making soap.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyPHYLLANTHACEAE - Leaf Flower family
Genus Glochidion
Species Glochidion puber (L.) Hutch. - Needlebush; Cheesetree

Citation

Citation Glochidion puber (Linnaeus) Hutchinson, Pl. Wilson. 2(3): 518. 1916.
Basionym: Agyneia puber L. 1771.
Type: Without data (lectotype: LINN 1145.2). Lectotypified by Radcliffe-Smith, in C.E. Jarvis et al., Regnum Veg. 127: 16. 1993.

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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Agyneia puber Agyneia puber L., Mant. Pl. 2: 296. 1771. Without data (lectotype: LINN 1145.2). Lectotypified by Radcliffe-Smith, in C.E. Jarvis et al., Regnum Veg. 127: 16. 1993.
Bradleia puber Bradleia puber (L.) Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 698. 1832.Agyneia puber L. 1771. 
Phyllanthus puber Phyllanthus puber (L.) Müll. Arg., Flora 48: 387. 1865.Agyneia puber L. 1771. 

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Chambers, Mobile

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, SAMF, TROY, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
SAMF0006949 Chambers 30 Jul 2013 Loewenstein, Nancy J.
s.n.		 SAMF
Glochidion puberum (Linnaeus) Hutchinson
UWAL0013640 Mobile 23 Jun 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2284		 UWAL
Glochidion puberum (linnaeus)Hutchinson
JSU140233 Mobile 14 Apr 2013 Barger, T. Wayne
SP997		 JSU
Glochidion puberum (Linnaeus) Hutchinson
UWAL0014116 Chambers 30 Jul 2013 Loewenstein, Nancy J.
s.n		 UWAL
Glochidion puberum (Linnaeus) Hutchinson
AUA_ACC_72952 Mobile 11 Jun 2014 Horne, Howard E.
2574		 AUA
Glochidion Puberum (L.) Hutch
UWAL0012310 Mobile 05 May 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2151		 UWAL
Glochidion puberum (Linnaeus) Hutchinson
TROY000043452 Mobile 05 May 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2151		 TROY
Glochidion puberum (Linnaeus) Hutchinson
TROY000039935 Chambers 30 Jul 2013 Loewenstein, Nancy J.
s.n.		 TROY
Glochidion puberum (Linnaeus) Hutchinson
AUA_ACC_59947 Mobile 19 Jul 2000 Fearn, Mimi
SN		 AUA
Glochidion Puberum (L.) Hutch
TROY000037332 Mobile 23 Jun 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2284		 TROY
Glochidion puberum (Linnaeus) Hutchinson
ALNHS00003055 Chambers 14 Aug 2013 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#1191		 ALNHS
Glochidion puberum (L.) Hutchinson
UWAL0012533 Mobile 14 May 2013 Barger, T. Wayne
997		 UWAL
Glochidion puberum (Linnaeus) Hutchinson
ALNHS00001965 Mobile 14 May 2013 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#997		 ALNHS
Glochidion puberum (L.) Hutchinson
AUA_ACC_71015 Chambers 30 Jul 2013 Loewenstein, Nancy J.
 AUA
Glochidion Puberum (L.) Hutch
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