Phyllis is a genus of plants in the Rubiaceae. There are two known species, both native to islands in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Description Glabrous evergreen sub-shrubs. Stems rounded, smooth. Leaves in whorls of 3, with small linear stipules in between, or with petiole indistinct. Inflorescence of axillary and terminal compound panicle-like dichasia, each many-flowered and bracteates. Calyx absent. Corolla (4-)5 lobed, the lobes spreading to strongly recurved, white to green. Fruit dry, of 2 mericarps, glabrous except on inner faces.Press, J. R. and M. J. Short. Flora of Madeira. Natural History Museum, UK. 1994. .
Species Phyllis nobla L. - Madeira, Canary Islands Phyllis viscosa Webb ex Christ - Canary Islands
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Flora Vascular de las Canarias, Phyllis nobla Madeira Flora Czech Botany, Phyllis nobla