Bushweed

Taxobox
name = Bushweed

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Flueggea leucopyrus"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Malpighiales
familia = Phyllanthaceae
tribus = Phyllantheae
subtribus = Flueggeinae
genus = "Flueggea"
genus_authority = Willd.
subdivision_ranks = Species
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Bushweeds (genus "Flueggea") are a taxon of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae, comprising several much-ramified shrubs distributed throughout the Eastern Hemisphere's tropical zones. The genus is named after John Fluegge, a German cryptogamic botanist.

Members of this genus all have entire ovate leaves and minute green flowers that form at the leaf axils in the form of fascicles or cymes. The fruits are berries, of the size of peas.

Members of the genus were formerly labeled under the genus "Securinega".

ynonymy

The genus "Fluggea" is also known under several names:
*"Bessera" Spreng.
*"Colmeiroa" Reut.
*"Geblera" Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
*"Neowawraea" Rock
*"Pleiostemon" Sond.
*"Villanova" Pourr. ex Cutanda, nom. inval.

pecies include:

*"Flueggea anatolica"
*"Flueggea capillipes"
*"Flueggea elliptica"
*"Flueggea flexuosa"
*"Flueggea leucopyrus"
*"Flueggea microcarpa"
*"Flueggea neowawraea" - mehamehame
*"Flueggea nicrocarpa"
*"Flueggea sinensis"
*"Flueggea spicata"
*"Flueggea suffruticosa" - hitotsuba hagi
*"Flueggea tinctoria" - tamujo
*"Flueggea ussuriensis"
*"Flueggea virosa" - simpleleaf bushweed, snowberry
*"Flueggea wallichiana"
*"Flueggea xerocarpa"