Pilea microphylla (L.) Liebm.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Urticaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Annual or biennial, slender, glabrous. Stems erect or ascending, or sometimes creeping at the base, 5-30 cm. long, fleshy, simple or mostly branched; leaves elliptic or oblanceolate, 410 mm. long, acute or acutish at the apex, entire, acuminate at the base, transversely wrinkled; petioles filiform, shorter than the blades; flower-clusters very small, shorter than the petioles; sepals ovate, very thin, acutish; achenes oblong, lenticular.
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Distribution
On walls and in waste rocky places, New Providence, Eleuthera, Great Exuma : Bermuda ; Florida ; West Indies ; continental tropical America. Laceplant.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Central Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|