(Can we date this quote?), “phobo-, phob-, -phobia, -phobias, -phobe, -phobiac, -phobist, -phobic, -phobism, -phobous”, in English-Word Information (wordinfo.info)[1]:
phyllophobia… An excessive fear of leaves: Each time Virginia saw the excessive amount of leafage on the ground in the fall, she had phyllophobia because it was the time of year to do the raking which took many days to complete!
(Can we date this quote?), “Phobias: Types of Phobias”, in Science Encyclopedia (science.jrank.org)[2]:
An enormous number of specific phobias exist. Some of these, such as claustrophobia, may be familiar to you. Others… are probably unfamiliar. … Fear of leaves—phyllophobia
2002 September, Teresa Doran, “Chewproof (review)”, in Books Ireland[3], number 251, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 215:
However it might be useful this autumn to know that phyllophobia is a fear of leaves….
2003, John G. Robertson, An Excess of Phobias and Manias: A Compilation of Anxieties, Obsessions, and Compulsions That Push Many Over the Edge of Sanity[4], →ISBN, page 146:
phyllophobia: An excessive fear of leaves.
2016 October 22, Ron Wolfe, “Jump in, if you’re not phyllophobic”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette[5], →ISSN:
Phyllophobia, the fear of leaves, might not be as much in the news this autumn as coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. But anywhere that crinkly, dead leaves are, some people are scared of them.