taxonID	type	description	language	source
DB864E66CAA752B18D275B3CBE305192.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs, 1 - 2.5 m high, deciduous. Stems many branched, branches alternate, diverging into an obtuse angle and arranged in two rows, usually with lateral and terminal spines; branchlets of current year's growth copiously hirtellous, angulate, yellow-brown, gray-brown, glabrate and nitid when old. Leaves alternate, distichous, or 1 - 3 fascicled on upper part of a branchlet; stipules reddish-brown, lanceolate, 0.7 - 2 mm long, margins ciliate, apex caudate-acuminate, persistent; petioles 1 - 5 mm long, copiously hirtellous when young, later glabrate; leaf blade oblong-obovate to obovate, 0.5 - 2 cm long, 0.4 - 1.5 cm wide, thickly papery in texture, glabrous except young midrib base, base cuneate, margin entire, flat or narrowly revolute when dry, apex retuse, obtuse or rounded, mucronulate, adaxially green, slightly lustrous, abaxially pale green, midrib extending to apex, lateral veins 4 - 6 on each side of midrib, alternate, rarely opposite, connected near margin, midrib and lateral veins slightly raised on both surfaces, veinlets reticulate. Plants dioecious. Male inflorescence with solitary staminate flower, axillary; bracts inconspicuous; pedicel 2 - 5 (- 7) mm long; sepals 6, ovate-oblong or elliptic, 1.2 - 1.6 mm long, 0.4 - 1.3 mm wide, apex rounded, margin erose or fimbriate, membranous, imbricate, slightly recurved, disk glands 6, angled, coherent, 0.4 - 0.5 mm across; petals absent; stamens 6, free, filaments green-yellow, 1.5 - 2 mm long, anthers yellow, 0.6 - 1 mm long, theca parallel, longitudinally dehiscent, anther connectives not protruding; pistillode with 3 (rarely 2) branches fused to the middle or beyond, the fused portion 0.8 - 1.5 mm high, the sharply recurved tips 0.4 - 1 mm long. Female inflorescence 1 - rarely 2 - flowered, arising in leaf axil; bracts inconspicuous. Pistillate flower: sepals 6, ovate-oblong or oblong, 1.5 - 1.8 mm long, 0.6 - 0.7 mm wide, apex acute, margin membranous, fimbriate; persistent and reflexed after anthesis; pedicels 5 - 8 (- 10) mm long that elongate to 16 mm in fruit, pendulous; disk angular, 0.8 - 1.3 mm across; petals absent; ovary globose, 3 - locules, each with 2 ovules; styles 3, patent, flattened, each 2 - lobed to middle, stigmas rounded at apex, styles and stigmas yellow-green. Capsules oblate, somewhat triangular in cross section, glabrous, ca. 5 mm in diam., green, brown when dry with persistent and nigrescent styles and stigmas, dehiscing through the locules when mature, valves and seeds falling off after dehiscing, columella persistent, 2 - 2.2 mm long. Seeds ovoid-trigonous, brown, 2.3 - 2.8 mm long, 1.6 - 1.7 mm broad at back, ca. 1.5 mm thick, glabrous, with raised pigmented minute rectangular testa cells (Figs 2, 3).	en	Xu, Songzhi, Gan, Qiliang, Fu, Lianzhong, Jiang, Mingxi, Li, Zhenyu (2021): Flueggea acicularis (Phyllanthaceae), a narrow endemic species rediscovered in central China. PhytoKeys 172: 57-66, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.172.57217, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.172.57217
DB864E66CAA752B18D275B3CBE305192.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China: Hubei province (Badong county); Chongqing municipality (Wushan county and Wuxi county), alt. (formerly 30 - 300 m) 175 - 300 m.	en	Xu, Songzhi, Gan, Qiliang, Fu, Lianzhong, Jiang, Mingxi, Li, Zhenyu (2021): Flueggea acicularis (Phyllanthaceae), a narrow endemic species rediscovered in central China. PhytoKeys 172: 57-66, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.172.57217, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.172.57217
