Flueggea, the Bushweeds, is a genus of plants in the family

Family

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 Phyllanthaceae

Phyllanthaceae

Phyllanthaceae is a family of flowering plants in the eudicot order Malpighiales. It is most closely related to the family Picrodendraceae. The Phyllanthaceae are most numerous in the tropics, with many in the south temperate zone, and a few ranging as far north as the middle of the north temperate...

, comprising several much-ramified shrub

Shrub

A shrub or bush is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 5–6 m tall. A large number of plants may become either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...

s to large tree

Tree

A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...

s distributed throughout the Eastern Hemisphere

Eastern Hemisphere

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's tropical zones

Tropics

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. The genus is named after John Fluegge

Johannes Flüggé

Johannes Flüggé was a German botanist and physician who was a native of Hamburg.He studied medicine and natural history at the Universities of Jena, Vienna and Göttingen, and in 1800 received his doctorate at the University of Erlangen...

, a German

Germany

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 cryptogamic botanist.

Members of this genus all have entire ovate leaves and minute green flower

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs...

s that form at the leaf axils

Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant, as defined in botanical terms, and in particular in plant morphology. Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves as a feature of plants....

 in the form of fascicle

Fascicle (botany)

In botany, a fascicle is a bundle of leaves or flowers, or of the vascular tissues that supply these organs with nutrients...

s or cyme

Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...

s. The fruits are berries

Berry

The botanical definition of a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary. Grapes are an example. The berry is the most common type of fleshy fruit in which the entire ovary wall ripens into an edible pericarp. They may have one or more carpels with a thin covering and fleshy interiors....

, of the size of pea

Pea

A pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas. Peapods are botanically a fruit, since they contain seeds developed from the ovary of a flower. However, peas are considered to be a vegetable in cooking...

s.

Members of the genus were formerly labeled under the genus Securinega

Securinega

Securinega was a genus of plant under the family Phyllanthaceae and the sole genus in the subtribe Securineginae. It consisted of several species, all of which are now synonyms for species under the genus Flueggea:...

.

Synonymy

The genus Fluggea is also known under several names:

• Bessera Spreng.
• Colmeiroa Reut.
• Geblera Fisch.
  Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer
  Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer was a Russian botanist, born in Germany. He was director of the St Petersburg botanical garden from 1823 to 1850....
  
   & C.A.Mey.
• Neowawraea Rock
  Joseph Rock
  Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist.-Life:He was born in Vienna, Austria, but emigrated to the United States in 1905 and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he eventually became an authority on the flora there...
  
  
• Pleiostemon Sond.
  Otto Wilhelm Sonder
  Otto Wilhelm Sonder was a German botanist and pharmacist who was a native of Holstein. From 1841 to 1878 he was the proprietor of a pharmacy in Hamburg. In 1846 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg.He was the author, with William Henry Harvey , of the Flora Capensis...
  
  
• Villanova Pourr. ex Cutanda, nom. inval.

Selected species

• Flueggea anatolica
  Flueggea anatolica
  Flueggea anatolica is a species of plant in the Phyllanthaceae family. It is endemic to Turkey.-Source:* Güner, A. & Zielinski, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....
  
  
• Flueggea capillipes
• Flueggea elliptica
  Flueggea elliptica
  Flueggea elliptica is a species of plant in the Phyllanthaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.-Source:...
  
  
• Flueggea flexuosa
• Flueggea leucopyrus
• Flueggea microcarpa
• Flueggea neowawraea
  Flueggea neowawraea
  Flueggea neowawraea, Mēhamehame, is a species of flowering tree in the Bignay family, Phyllanthaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It can be found in dry, coastal mesic, and mixed mesic forests at elevations of...
  
  W.J.Hayden - Mēhamehame (Hawaii
  Hawaii
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• Flueggea nicrocarpa
• Flueggea sinensis
• Flueggea spicata
• Flueggea suffruticosa
  Flueggea suffruticosa
  Flueggea suffruticosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it has the name yī yè qiū ....
  
  - Hitotsuba hagi
• Flueggea tinctoria - Tamujo
• Flueggea ussuriensis
• Flueggea virosa - Simpleleaf bushweed, Snowberry
• Flueggea wallichiana
• Flueggea xerocarpa