Lecantheae

Artillery plant Pilea microphylla, photographed by Forest & Kim Starr.

Belongs within: Urticaceae.

The Lecantheae is a group within the Urticaceae, distinguished by the possession of a brush-like stigma. Though flowers are unisexual, female flowers retain the modified male organs as staminodes that function to eject the developing fruits upon maturity.

Characters (from Hadiah et al. 2003): Staminodes ejecting mature achenes; leaves opposite, anisophyllous to completely reduced; stipules intrapetiolar, fused; cystoliths uniformly linear.

<==Lecantheae [Procrideae]
    |--Lecanthus YY22
    |--Elatostema Forster & Forster 1776 HQC03, A61 [incl. E. subg. Pellionia HQC03]
    |    |  i. s.: E. rugosum Cunn. 1838 A61
    |    |--+--E. repens HQC03
    |    |  `--+--E. curtisii HQC03
    |    |     `--Procris HQC03
    |    |          |--P. frutescens HQC03
    |    |          `--P. insularis HQC03
    |    `--+--E. griffithianum HQC03
    |       |--E. (subg. Weddelia) parvum HQC03
    |       `--E. subg. Euelatostema HQC03
    |            |--E. acuminatum HQC03
    |            `--+--E. subg. Elatostematoides HQC03
    |               |    |--E. rostratum HQC03
    |               |    `--E. sesquifolium HQC03
    |               `--+--+--E. strigosum HQC03
    |                  |  `--E. velutinicaule HQC03
    |                  `--+--E. pedunculosum HQC03
    |                     `--+--+--E. macrophyllum HQC03
    |                        |  `--E. nigrescens HQC03
    |                        `--+--E. reticulatum HQC03
    |                           `--E. stipitatum HQC03
    `--Pilea HQC03
         |--P. baltenweckii J87
         |--P. cardiophylla J87
         |--P. cellulosa J87
         |--P. cephalantha J87
         |--P. diandra J87
         |--P. distantifolia J87
         |--P. domingensis J87
         |--P. elliptica D03
         |--P. formonensis J87
         |--P. franquervilleana J87
         |--P. godetiana J87
         |--P. hepatica J87
         |--P. lanceolata J87
         |--P. lapidincola J87
         |--P. leptocardia J87
         |--P. microphylla HQC03
         |--P. nummulariifolia HQC03
         |--P. parietaria J87
         |--P. propinqua J87
         |--P. psilogyne J87
         |--P. pumila HQC03
         |--P. serpyllacea J87
         |--P. stolonifera J87
         `--P. torbeciana J87

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A61] Allan, H. H. 1961. Flora of New Zealand vol. 1. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. R. E. Owen, Government Printer: Wellington (New Zealand).

[D03] Dusén, P. 1903. The vegetation of western Patagonia. In: Scott, W. B. (ed.) Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896–1899 vol. 8. Botany pp. 1–34. The University: Princeton (New Jersey).

[HQC03] Hadiah, J. T., C. J. Quinn & B. J. Conn. 2003. Phylogeny of Elatostema (Urticaceae) using chloroplast DNA data. Telopea 10 (1): 235–246.

[J87] Judd, W. S. 1987. Floristic study of Morne La Visite and Pic Macaya National Parks, Haiti. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum—Biological Sciences 32 (1): 1–136.

[YY22] Yampolsky, C., & H. Yampolsky. 1922. Distribution of sex forms in the phanerogamic flora. Bibliotheca Genetica 3: 1–62.

Last updated: 10 September 2020.