| Phyllis nobla | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Genus: | Phyllis |
| Species: | P. nobla |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllis nobla | |
Phyllis nobla is a small, glabrous or pubescent subshrub in the family Rubiaceae.
Leaves are entire, lanceolate to ovate, acute. Flowers are whitish, small in lax terminal and axillary panicles. Fruiting pedicels are pendulous. [1]
Cliffs, rocky banks and levada walls from sea level to 1800 m; widespread in Madeira but rarer in Porto Santo where it occurs on the northern coast near Fonte d'Areia and on Pico do Facho and Ilheu de Baiyo; also on Deserta Grande Island and the eastern side of Bugio. [2]
Tenerife: Laurel forest cliffs and banks, Sierra Anaga, Las Mercedes to Vueltas de de Taganana, Aguamansa etc. locally very common, 600–1200 m; La Palma: Cumbre Nueva, El Paso, Barlovento etc.; La Gomera: Monte del Cedro, Arure, Chorros de Epina; El Hierro: Forest regions of El Golfo and Valverde (Ventejís); Gran Canaria: Pinar de Tamadaba, pine forest cliffs, 1000 m, Presa de los Pérez, rare. [3]
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