Talk:Phyllanthus

Why does "Xylophylla" redirect here?
"Xylophylla" presently redirects here to "Phyllanthus". There's no mention of the term in the article and I don't know how it connects. There's also a genus of moth with the same name, Xylophylla (moth). If "xylophylla" has something to do with the plant genus, then "Xylophylla" should be a disambig page. Jason Quinn (talk) 10:23, 21 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I've added a mention, although since that name hasn't much been used as a genus name since 1866 (as far as I can tell from the source), I'm not sure what to do about the redirects. If the moth name is still in use, maybe just change the redirect to the moth page and don't bother with the disambig. Might depend on whether the moth is equally obscure. (Oh, and it would presumably just be a WP:HATNOTE rather than a full disambig, if we did want it). Kingdon (talk) 00:09, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Added rext removed
I've reverted a series of recent edits that added a section called "Ecology". Please see discussion at Theaceae. Nadiatalent (talk) 12:58, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Phyllanthus needs to be bigger
this article is very small, please someone must add information of its biodiversity and the influence of these plants in the habitats where they are present. This articles says characteristics only. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.42.105.207 (talk) 03:09, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The first task is to find good reliable sources and add carefully formatted citations that are not subject to link rot. Once those sources are available to anyone who reads the page, good information can be added here. Please see Talk:Theaceae for more discussion of the disasters that have occurred when people add indiscriminately. Actually, I doubt that "the influence of these plants in the habitats where they are present" has been the subject of sufficient ecological studies that anything could be said with certainty. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 13:10, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Inadequate sourcing and context for fossil record
added this edit to the Phyllanthus article under "Fossil record" and the same content and source to some 22 other plant articles to date. The edit sources to a 1979 publication of preliminary analysis of soil samples from the Miocene as discovered in a small region of southern Poland. The report identified different plant taxa specimens - in the case of Phyllanthus, only 2 specimens were found - as shown here in Table 2. The "fossil record" section is based on this single report, is not supported by a WP:SCIRS review, and the Acta Palaeobotanica report clearly provides a limited discussion from few specimens found in a limited geographic region, so falls under WP:UNDUE as a topic. It's difficult to see this addition of primary research with such limited context as encyclopedic. If a high-quality review with interpretation by an authoritative source was available, better context for including discussion of the fossil record would exist, and it may then be justified. --Zefr (talk) 17:34, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Please delete
....the Hungarian link because it is wrong, refers to a bird species. Mazarin07 (talk) 20:14, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ (at Wikidata) Peter coxhead (talk) 21:58, 30 June 2024 (UTC)