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Pohpohan (Pilea melastomoides)

Dlium Pohpohan (Pilea melastomoides)

Pohpohan (Pilea melastomoides) is a species of plant in the Urticaceae, herbaceous perennial, erect stems, up to 100 cm tall, succulent, square or cylindrical, enlarged in the middle of the internodes, bright green in color and forming colonies in the shade.

P. melastomoides has stipules that are immediately deciduous or subpersistent, green or brownish and oblong. The stalk is 2-9 cm long. The leaf blade is ovate or ovate-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate.



The surface is wavy, pale green on the underside, dark green on the top. The three main veins are central and linear. Rounded base, tapered ends and serrated edges. The inflorescences are paired, the male is a dense cyme paniculata.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Urticaceae
Genus: Pilea Lindl. in Coll. Bot.: t. 4 (1821)
Species: Pilea melastomoides (Poir.) Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 1: 186 (1854)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Adicea melastomodes (Poir.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 622 (1891)
Dubrueilia melastomoides (Poir.) Gaudich. in Voy. Uranie: 495 (1830)
Urtica melastomoides Poir. in Encycl., Suppl. 4: 223 (1816)
Urtica poiretii F.Dietr. in Neu. Nachtr. Vollst. Lex. Gärtn. 9: 137 (1838)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Boehmeria cavaleriei H.Lév. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 550 (1913)
Pilea elongata Miq. in H.Zollinger, Syst. Verz. Ind. Archip. 2: 102 (1854)
Pilea oreophila Blume in Mus. Bot. 2: 54 (1856)
Pilea ovatinucula Hayata in Icon. Pl. Formosan. 6: 48 (1916)
Pilea pellucida Blume in Mus. Bot. 2: 54 (1856)
Pilea trinervia (Roxb.) Wight in Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 6: t. 1973 (1853)
Urtica cataractae Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2. 2: 734 (1841)
Urtica elongata Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 494 (1826)
Urtica gibbosa Zipp. ex Blume in Mus. Bot. 2: 54 (1856)
Urtica oreophila Miq. in Pl. Jungh.: 27 (1851)
Urtica peduncularis Sm. in A.Rees, Cycl. 37: n.° 6 (1818)
Urtica trinervia Roxb. in Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 582 (1832)

PUBLICATIONS

Dassanayake (ed.) (1999). A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon 13: 1-284. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. PVT. LTD., New Delhi, Calcutta.

Lê, T.C. (2003). Danh lục các loài thực vật Việt Nam 2: 1-1203. Hà Nội : Nhà xuất bản Nông nghiệp.

Mao, A.A., Odyuo, N., Verma, D. & Singh, P. (2017). Checklist of Flora of Nagaland: 1-196. Botanical Survey of India.

Pasha, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Pusalkar, P.K., Mao, A.A. & Inge, P. (eds.) (2022). Flora of India 24: 1-688. Botanical Survey of India.

Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2003). Flora of China 5: 1-505. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (simplified): 长序冷水花
Chinese (traditional): 大冷水麻 - 牡丹葉冷水麻
English: Pohpohan, Three-vein Clearweed
Indonesian: Pohpohan
Japanese: ノボタンミズ
Java: Pohpohan

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