Citation: Airy Shaw, Kew Bull. 35:682 (1980).

Synonymy: Synostemon ramosissimus F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:33 (1858); Phyllanthus ramosissimus (F. Muell.)Muell.-Arg., Linnaea 34:70 (1865); P. thesioides sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 2:510 (1948), non Benth. (1864).

Common name: None

Description:
Slender glabrous much-branched undershrub, stems erect, to 30 cm or more high, virgate, angled, leafless or almost so; leaves subsessile, linear or cuneate-oblanceolate, 2-12 x 1-2 mm, subacute, glabrous; stipules minute, subulate, reddish-brown.

Flowers 1 or 2 in axillary fascicles; male very shortly pedicellate, calyx segments narrow-ovate, 1-4 mm long; anthers connate in an elongate oblong mass; female flowers on pedicels 4-10 mm long, calyx segments linear, 2-2.5 mm long, acute; styles free, thick, dilated and shortly 2-lobed.

Capsule ovoid, 6-8 mm long; seed strongly and irregularly transversally nodulose-rugose.

	Sauropus ramosissimus twig and female flower.
Image source: fig 411 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    N.T.; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Both male and female flowers are borne on slender peduncles which may exceed 1 cm in the fruiting stage. The erect very narrowly oblong calyx segments, especially of the males, confer a narrowly cylindrical outline on the flower in the bud stage.

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