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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Pilea

Hierarchical position of the Genus Pilea

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Urticanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 237. 1992.       Ordo  Urticales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 15. 1829.       Familia  Urticaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 400. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Nettles       Genus  Pilea Lindl. common name: clearweed

Named members of the Genus Pilea

1	Species  depressa (Sw.) Blume common name: depressed clearweed
2	Species  fontana (Lunell) Rydb. common name: lesser clearweed
3	Species  herniarioides (Sw.) Lindl. common name: Caribbean clearweed
4	Species  inaequalis (Juss. ex Poir.) Weddell common name: West Indian clearweed
5	Species  involucrata (Sims) Urban
6	Species  krugii Urban common name: Krug's clearweed
7	Species  leptophylla Urban common name: Puerto Rico clearweed
8	Species  margarettiae Britt. common name: Margarett's clearweed
9	Species  microphylla (L.) Liebm.
	10    Varietas  trianthemoides (Sw.) Griseb. syn. Pilea trianthemoides
11	Species  multicaulis Urban common name: Liquillo Mountain clearweed
12	Species  nummulariifolia (Sw.) Weddell common name: creeping charlie
13	Species  obtusata Liebm. syn. Pilea inaequalis
14	Species  opaca (Lunell) Rydb. syn. Pilea fontana
15	Species  parietaria (L.) Blume common name: verdolaguilla
16	Species  peploides (Gaud.) Hook. & Arn.
	17    Varietas  major Hbd. syn. Pilea peploides
18	Species  pumila (L.) Gray
	19    Varietas  deamii (Lunell) Fern. common name: Deam's clearweed 20    Varietas  pumila common name: Canadian clearweed
21	Species  repens (Sw.) Weddell syn. Pilea inaequalis
22	Species  richardii Urban common name: Richard's clearweed
23	Species  rivoriae Weddell
24	Species  sanctae-crucis Liebm. common name: Virgin Island clearweed
25	Species  semidentata (Juss. ex Poir.) Weddell common name: cliffside clearweed
26	Species  serpyllifolia (Poir.) Weddell syn. Pilea trianthemoides
27	Species  tenerrima Miq. common name: musgo
28	Species  trianthemoides (Sw.) Lindl. common name: artillery plant
29	Species  yunquensis (Urban) Britt. & Wilson common name: mountain clearweed

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.