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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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Species
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PILEA INVOLUCRATA (Sims) Urban
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PlaceOfPublication
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Symb. Antill. 1:298. 1899.
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Synonym
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Urtica involucrata Sims, Bot. Mag. 51: pI. 248i. 1824. Pilea chrysosplenioides Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 18:231. 1852. Pilea pubescens var. involucrata Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 161:153. 1869.
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Description
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Stem repent at base, the branches ascending, up to 30 cm. high, appressed- hirsute above; leaves massed at end of branches, obovate or rotund-ovate, up to 5 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide, rounded at apex, rounded or subauriculate at base, short-petioled, finely crenate, ciliate, strigillose with appressed hyaline hairs (rarely glabrate) above, sparingly to densely pubescent beneath, especially on the nerves, the cystoliths on the upper surface linear or fusiform and confined to the margin; plants monoecious or dioecious, the cymes generally unisexual, sessile or subsessile, shorter than the leaves; achenes minute, less than 0.5 mm. long.
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Distribution
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Panama and the West Indies to Colombia and Venezuela, usually below 1000 m. alt.; cultivated in the United States.
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Elevation
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below 1000 m.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Empire, Crawford 574; Salamanca Hydrographic Station, Rio Pequeni, Woodson, Allen & Seibert I600.
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