Pilea Lindl.

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Urticaceae

• Scientific Name

  Pilea Lindl.

• Description

  Genus Description - Monoecious or dioecious, erect or prostrate, succulent herbs, lacking stinging hairs. Leaves opposite, simple, petiolate, those of a pair equal or unequal; stipules free or connate. Flowers unisexual, in the same or in separate simple or compound axillary inflorescences; staminate flowers with 4, nearly equal sepals and a rudimentary ovary; pistillate flowers with 3 unequal sepals and a nearly ovoid ovary, the stigma penicillate. Fruit a compressed-ovate achene.