Aporosa villosa
Aporosa villosa is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is found in Southeast Asia, including the Nicobar, Andaman and Paracel Islands. There are some traditional medicinal uses for plant, particularly around care after childbirth. The shrub is often a pioneer species, tolerant of full sun, but intolerant of frequent fires. Description This grows as a shrub, or small tree, up to 15m tall and 15 cm in diameter, sometimes deciduous. Black to light-brown bark with vertical cracks or grooves. Densely tomentose young branches. Ovate to elliptic leaves some 8.5-30 x 6–12.5 cm in size, with a slightly cordate to rounded base, small hairy basal glands, (lowly) glandular-crenate to lowly glandular-serrate margin with regular distinct blackish marginal glands. The leaves have an acute to acuminate apex, the sometimes brittle, thickish blade which when dry is corrugate-reticulate on the upper surface while the lower surface is smooth. The upper surface of the leaves dry to a greyish- to greenish-brown, occasionally bluish-green, while the lower surface dries to reddish brown. Distinguishing traits include: the branchlets often have thick scars of fallen leaves; the leaf shape, margins and base. However Schot warns that only the extreme forms of