Afroswartziani Ralim. & Petra Hoffm. section Callidisci (Jean F.Brunel) R.W.Bouman, 2018

Bouman, R. W., Keβler, P. J. A., Telford, I. R. H., Bruhl, J. J. & Welzen, P. C. van, 2018, Subgeneric delimitation of the plant genus Phyllanthus (Phyllanthaceae), Blumea 63 (2), pp. 167-198 : 169

Phyllanthus L. subgenus Afroswartziani Ralim. & Petra Hoffm. section Callidisci (Jean F.Brunel) R.W.Bouman , stat. nov.

Phyllanthus L. subgenus Afroswartziani Ralim. & Petra Hoffm.section Callidisci (Jean F.Brunel) R.W.Bouman. — Phyllanthus L. subsect. Callidisci Jean F.Brunel,Gen. Phyllanthus Afr. Intertrop.Madag.(1987) 334. — Type: Phyllanthus callidiscus Jean F.Brunel.

Note — Species of section Callidisci were originally placed by Brunel (1987) in subgenus Phyllanthus section Anthophyllus together with other palaeotropical subsections and recognized by the fringed disc in the pistillate flowers. As this group has recently been shown to be polyphyletic ( Kathriarachchi et al. 2006) and after revision were split into a few new subgenera ( Ralimanana et al. 2013), it seems necessary also to transfer Brunel’s subsections. All other palaeotropical species of subgenus Phyllanthus were placed in subgenus Afroswartziani and were distinguished from the neotropical subgenus Swartziani by their unisexual inflorescences ( Ralimanana et al. 2013). This is in agreement with species of subsection Callidisci , which is transferred here and raised to sectional level to accommodate the separation from section Anthophyllus .