Poranthera microphylla

Poranthera microphylla, commonly known as small poranthera, is a flowering plant in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is a small, widespread Australian herb with blue-grey leaves and white flowers.

Description
Poranthera microphylla is a decumbent or more or less upright, slender, densely branched, annual herb up to 30 cm high. It has soft, smooth branches, egg to spoon-shaped blue-grey leaves, thin, usually 4-15 mm long, 8-15 cm wide, margins more or less flat or slightly recurved, petiole 2-5 mm long, apex blunt or rounded and mostly with a short, triangular point. The flowers are in a corymb about 0.3-0.8 cm across, petals white or pink, bracts narrowly egg-shaped, up to about 4 mm long and on a pedicels to 1.5 mm. Flowering occurs mostly from September to April and the fruit is a 3-lobed capsule 1.5-2 cm in diameter, white and warty.

Taxonomy and naming
Poranthera microphylla was first formally described in 1833 by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart and the description was published in Annales des Sciences Naturelles. The specific epithet (microphylla) means "small leaved".

Distribution and habitat
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.