Pilea swinglei Merr.

Species

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Characteristics

Herbs weak, glabrous, monoecious. Stems simple or branched, 7-30 cm tall, 1-3 mm in diam., succulent. Stipules soon deciduous, triangular, minute, ca. 1 mm, membranous; petiole subequal in length, 0.5-3 mm; leaf blade abaxially pale green with dense purplish dots, adaxially greenish, broadly ovate or trianglular-ovate, subequal in size, 1-5.5 × 0.8-3 mm, succulent, thinly papery when dry, lateral veins 2 or 3 each side, indistinct, sunken adaxially, prominent abaxially, abaxial surface honeycombed, cystoliths linear, often conspicuously along margin adaxially, base cordate or subtruncate, margin often serrate or crenate, sometimes proximal ones entire, apex acute, sometimes acuminate or obtuse. Inflorescence male simple or few-branched; often longer than the subtending leaf; glomerules 2-4, 2-5 mm in diam., remote; female spike shorter than leaves; bracts oblong-lanceolate, ca. 0.4 mm. Male flowers yellow-green, pedicellate or sessile, in bud ca. 1 mm; perianth lobes oblong-obovate, connate at base, subapically 2-corniculate; stamens 4; rudimentary ovary minute. Female flowers light green, pedicellate; perianth lobes 2(or 3), very unequal, abaxial lobe cymbiform, slightly shorter than achene, adaxial lobe ovate, 1/5 as long as abaxial lobe, membranous; staminodes oblong, 1/2 of length of fruit. Achene light brownish, sometimes with indistinctly dotted colored ring by margin, ovoid, ca. 0.5 mm, slightly compressed, oblique, smooth. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Aug-Nov.
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality monoecy
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Mature height (meter) 0.07 - 0.3
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Germination duration (days) 14 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
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Distribution

Pilea swinglei world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:855825-1
WFO ID wfo-0001143698
COL ID 4HT84
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Synonyms

Pilea swinglei Pilea henryana Pilea crateriforma Pilea peploides var. minutissima