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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 06-06-2023

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid I
  • Order: Rosales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Urticaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe: Lecantheae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • Wind Pollination (anemophily)
  • Floriculture CDE Plant List
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China South-Central / Vietnam

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, 21 December, 2018.
  2. Pilea cadierei at ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Friday, 21 December, 2018.
  3. Pilea cadierei at Flora of China. Last accessed Friday, 21 December, 2018.

data regenerated on Tue, 06 Jun 2023 08:33:03 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Pilea cadierei

Additional images for this accession:

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Current Accessions in the Urticaceae

Subfamily
Tribe Boehmerieae

  • Boehmeria nivea

Subfamily
Tribe Cecropieae

  • Cecropia peltata

Subfamily
Tribe Lecantheae

  • Pellionia repens
  • Pilea cadierei
  • Pilea depressa
  • Pilea nummulariifolia
  • Pilea peperomioides
  • Procris unidentified

Subfamily
Tribe Parietarieae

  • Soleirolia soleirolii

Subfamily
Tribe Urticeae

  • Urera baccifera
  • Urtica dioica
W/C = Wild Collected
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