Pseudophyllanthus

Pseudophyllanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is one of the eight genera in the tribe Poranthereae. Its closest relative is Poranthera. Its sole species is Pseudophyllanthus ovalis.

Pseudophyllanthus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Phyllanthaceae
Subfamily:	Phyllanthoideae
Tribe:	Poranthereae
Genus:	Pseudophyllanthus (Müll. Arg.) Voronts. & Petra Hoffm.
Species:	P. ovalis
Binomial name
Pseudophyllanthus ovalis (E.Mey. ex Sond.) Voronts. & Petra Hoffm.
Synonyms
Andrachne ovalis (E.Mey. ex Sond.) Müll.Arg. Phyllanthus ovalis E.Mey. ex Sond.

It is a dioecious, or rarely monoecious, shrub or small tree, native to southern Africa. It had been included in the genus Andrachne, but in 2007 a molecular phylogenetic study of DNA sequences showed that it did not belong there.^[1] In 2008, the new genus Pseudophyllanthus was created for it.^[2]