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Pilea rivularis Wedd.

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & zhouyd @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6886 - 0662
  • 2. East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 45166, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya & gmwachala @ museums. or. ke; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5334 - 0744
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & guangwanhu @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7728 - 7976
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & qfwang @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9143 - 8849 Authors for correspondence

Description

Pilea rivularis Wedd.

Habit: Herb.

Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ; up to 3 100 m. Distribution: II.

Voucher: Castle Forest Reserve, Alt. 1 950–2 130 m, 12 Nov. 1987, Seki JKCAT-1384 (EA).

References: Fries (1923b), Friis (1989), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a).

Notes

Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464

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Biodiversity

Family
Urticaceae
Genus
Pilea
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Rosales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Wedd.
Species
rivularis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Fries, T. C. E. (1923 b) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Flora des Kenia, Mt. Aberdare und Mt. Elgon. III. Notizblatt des Koniglichen Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin 8 (78): 547 - 573. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3994426
  • Friis, I. (1989) Urticaceae. In: Polhill, R. M. (Ed.) Flora of Tropical East Africa. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 64 pp.
  • Bussmann, R. W. (1993) The forest of Mt. Kenya (Kenya): A phytosociological approach with special reference to ecological problems. Ph. D. Thesis, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, 119 pp.
  • Bussmann, R. W. (1994) The forest of Mt. Kenya (Kenya): Vegetation, ecology, destruction and management of a tropical mountain forest ecosystem. Ph. D. dissertation, Universitat Bayreuth Startseite, Bayreuth, 252 pp.
  • Bussmann, R. W. & Beck, E. (1995 a) The forests of Mt. Kenya (Kenya), a phytosociological synopsis. Phytocoenologia 25 (4): 467 - 560. https: // doi. org / 10.1127 / phyto / 25 / 1995 / 467