Pouzolzia

Gaudichaud Beaupré

Voy. Uranie 12: 503. 1830.

Etymology: For P. C. M. de Pouzolz, botanist and collector in Corsica, France, and the Pyrénées
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA03 P77 Parietaria Pilea Pouzolzia pg 410.jpegPouzolzia zeylanica
Pilea microphylla
Parietaria floridana
Parietaria pensylvanica
Pilea pumila
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Herbs or subshrubs [and shrubs], perennial, with nonstinging hairs. Stems simple, erect. Leaves alternate, less often opposite; stipules present. blades elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate, margins entire; cystoliths rounded. Inflorescences axillary. Flowers unisexual, staminate and pistillate flowers in sessile or subsessile clusters in same inflorescences; bracts oblanceolate, lacking hooked hairs. Staminate flowers: tepals 4, equal; stamens 4; pistillode present. Pistillate flowers: tepals 4, connate, appressed to and tightly enclosing ovary; staminodes absent; style deciduous, elongate. Achenes ovoid, acute, not mucronate, tightly enclosed by persistent tepals. x = 13.

Distribution

Mostly in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide

Discussion

Species ca. 50 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

... more about "Pouzolzia"
not mucronate +, acute +  and ovoid +
David E. Boufford +
Gaudichaud Beaupré +
ovate +, lanceolate +  and elliptic +
oblanceolate +
Mostly in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide +
For P. C. M. de Pouzolz, botanist and collector in Corsica, France, and the Pyrénées +
reflexing +  and inflexed +
pistillate +, staminate +, subsessile +  and sessile +
loosely +  and free +
opposite +  and alternate +
rounded +  and linear +
accrescent +
Voy. Uranie +
deciduous +
elongate +
Pouzolzia +
Urticaceae +
reddish +, greenish +, green +  and white +
persistent +
hypogynous +
subshrub +  and herb +