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Phyllanthaceae
Cicca

not marked as a favorite taxon *Cicca Linnaeus.

A genus of 40-50 species, trees (our introduced species) and shrubs (rarely herbs, of tropical Old World and South America. Previously included in Phyllanthus; see Bouman et al. (2021, 2022).

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References: Bouman et al. (2021); Bouman et al. (2022); Levin (2016c) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2016). Show full citations.

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