Accession Data:
Pilea cadierei Gagnep. & Guillaum.
sect. Tetrameris
- Common Name: Aluminum Plant
- Family: Urticaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: China & Vietnam
- Habitat: Shaded wet places in forests; 500-1500 m.
- Description: Herbs perennial or subshrubs, rhizomatous, glabrous, dioecious. Stems erect, 15-40 cm tall, somewhat succulent, woody at base; stems, stipules, petioles, and leaves densely covered with cystoliths. Stipules caducous, green, brownish when dry, oblong, 10-13 mm, papery, longitudinally 2-ribbed; petiole subequal in length, 0.7-1.5 cm; leaf blade ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">obovate, subequal in size, 2.5-6 × 1.5-3 cm, papery, 3-veined, lateral veins 3 each side, external secondary veins anastomosing by margin, adaxial surface with 2 interrupted white grooves, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin obscurely dentate or erose, apex mucronate. Inflorescences in pairs; male inflorescence a capitulum, peduncle 1.5-4 cm; glomerules 6-10 mm in diam.; bracts broadly ovate, ca. 3 mm. Male flowers: pedicel 2-3 mm, in bud pear-shaped, ca. 2.5 mm; calyx and corolla of a flower (generally used when the two are similar).">perianth lobes 4, cymbiform, connate 1/2 of length, subapically corniculate; stamens 4; rudimentary ovary conic. Female flowers subsessile; persistent perianth lobes 0.5-0.7 mm, 1/2 as long as achene; staminodes oblong. indehiscent fruit, e.g. in the genus Ranunculus">Achene ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm, compressed. Fl. Sep-Nov, fr. Nov-Dec.3
- Culture: Grow in full shade. Foliage prone to scorch in bright light.
- USDA Zone: 10a-11
Accession Data:
- Accession # 198500369
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1203 - AUS:Ground Bed 1 NW
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 02-17-2023
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid I
- Order: Rosales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Urticaceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe: Lecantheae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China South-Central / Vietnam
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, 21 December, 2018.
- Pilea cadierei at ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Friday, 21 December, 2018.
- Pilea cadierei at Flora of China. Last accessed Friday, 21 December, 2018.
data regenerated on Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:21:15 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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Current Accessions in the Urticaceae
Subfamily
Tribe Boehmerieae
Subfamily
Tribe Cecropieae
Subfamily
Tribe Lecantheae
- Pellionia repens
- Pilea cadierei
- Pilea depressa
- Pilea nummulariifolia
- Pilea peperomioides
- Procris unidentified
Subfamily
Tribe Parietarieae
Subfamily
Tribe Urticeae
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
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= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days