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Old 30-08-2006, 09:56 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
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The M001-M1004 look like Phyllanthus in the Euphorbiaceae. Simple
leaves, no petals, little capsular fruit. You can compare to photos at:

http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/dcs4...dw251098rs.jpg
http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic03/DSCN1815.JPG

The species vary in number of sepals, but the females will usually have
the styles.

Monique Reed
Texas A&M

Raphanus wrote:
See M001 - M004 at http://www.flickr.com/photos/raphanus97/

I'm pretty sure it is in the Mimosa or "Bird-of-Paradise" subfamily of
the pea family. Alternate leaves length about 7mm. The plant is about
a meter high. The fruit is a small sphere (1mm diameter) that could be
divided into three parts. The flower is also very small (1mm across)
and probably consists only of 5 green sepals. I'm in the piedmont area
of South Carolina but that may be irrelevant because I've only seen one
specimen of the plant and I think it hitched a ride on the "plant-ball"
of a liriope that was transplanted from a nursery in a recent
landscaping.

Thanks in advance.