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Bushweed
Flueggea leucopyrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Phyllanthaceae
Tribe:	Phyllantheae
Subtribe:	Flueggeinae
Genus:	Flueggea Willd.
Species
See text

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.

Synonymy

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.

Selected species

• Flueggea anatolica
• Flueggea capillipes
• Flueggea elliptica
• Flueggea flexuosa
• Flueggea leucopyrus
• Flueggea microcarpa
• Flueggea neowawraea W.J.Hayden - Mēhamehame (Hawaiʻi)
• Flueggea nicrocarpa
• Flueggea sinensis
• Flueggea spicata
• Flueggea suffruticosa - Hitotsuba hagi
• Flueggea tinctoria - Tamujo
• Flueggea ussuriensis
• Flueggea virosa - Simpleleaf bushweed, Snowberry
• Flueggea wallichiana
• Flueggea xerocarpa

From Wikispecies

Taxonavigation

Classification System: APG II (down to family level)

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiospermae
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Malpighiales
Familia: Phyllanthaceae
Tribus: Phyllantheae
Subtribus: Flueggeinae
Genus: Flueggea
Species: F. flexuosa - F. leucopyrus - F. neowawraea - F. samoana - F. suffruticosa - F. tinctoria - F. virosa

Name

Flueggea Willd.

Synonym

Securinega spp. Comm. ex Juss. (obsolete)

Vernacular names