Pilea ovalifolia Britton & P.Wilson
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Authority
Contributions from The New York Botanical Garden: Volume X 1921-1923.
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Family
Urticaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Stems creeping, rather stout, rooting at the nodes. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rather coarsely crenate, pinnately 3-nerved, glabrous, those of each pair often unequal in size; larger leaves up to 5.5 cm. long, 3.4 cm. wide, with petioles 1.5-3 cm- long; smaller leaves 2.5-4 cm long, 1.5-2.6 cm. wide, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; upper leaf surface densely covered with minute linear raphides, the lower surface papillose; pistillate inflorescence longer than the leaves, peduncled, its branches spreading; achenes ovate, about 0.9 mm. long.
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Distribution
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Leon 10767).
Cuba South America|