Poranthera microphylla, commonly known as small poranthera,[1] is a flowering plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is a small, widespread Australian herb with blue-grey leaves and white flowers.
Poranthera microphylla is a decumbent or more or less upright, slender, densely branched, annual herb up to high. It has soft, smooth branches, egg to spoon-shaped blue-grey leaves, thin, usually long, wide, margins more or less flat or slightly recurved, petiole long, apex blunt or rounded and mostly with a short, triangular point. The flowers are in a corymb about across, petals white or pink, bracts narrowly egg-shaped, up to about long and on a pedicels to . Flowering occurs mostly from September to April and the fruit is a 3-lobed capsule in diameter, white and warty.[1] [2]
Poranthera microphylla was first formally described in 1833 by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart and the description was published in Annales des Sciences Naturelles.[3] The specific epithet (microphylla) means "small leaved".[4]
Small poranthera is a widespread species and grows in dry, montane forest, woodland and grassland in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.[2]