Literature for Antidesma platyphyllum Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Antidesma platyphyllum var. hillebrandii Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Antidesma platyphyllum var. platyphyllum Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Phyllanthaceae	Bibliography
Antidesma platyphyllum

General Information
Distribution
Habit	Trees (3-)4-10(-15) m tall.
Leaves	Leaves thick, chartaceous to coriaceous, ovate to obovate or sometimes orbicular, (6-)8-14(-19) cm long, (3-)4-10 cm wide, glabrous, upper surface often glossy, rarely puberulent evenly over lower surface, but especially along veins and toward midrib, base cuneate to truncate, rarely subcordate, petioles curved, 1-7(-9) mm long, glabrous, stipules linear-lanceolate, ca. 5-6 mm long, quickly deciduous.
Flowers	Staminate flowers in axillary panicles 4-8 cm long, pedicels ca. 0.7-0.8 mm long, bracts 0.8-1.2 mm long, calyx 4-5-lobed, 1.3-1.6 mm long, puberulent, petals vestigial, nectary disk lobed, glabrous, stamens 4-5, exserted, filaments ca. 3.5-4 mm long, ovary vestigial; pistillate flowers in axillary panicles 5-14 cm long, pedicels 0.5-1.6 mm long, bracts ca. 1 mm long, calyx 5-8-lobed, ca. 1 mm long, puberulent, nectary disk small, annular, stamens absent, ovary glabrous to puberulent, style terminal.
Fruit	Fruit reddish to dark purple, fleshy, compressed, (8-)9-12 mm long, 3-8 mm thick.