Plant Details

Accepted name:: Pilea pumila A.Gray [Urticaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: Pilea pumila var. obtusifolia C.J.Chen

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
canadian clearweed	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
clearweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
透茎冷水花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 10 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Urtica pumila L. Sp. Pl.: 984 (1753).
Adenia pumila (L.) Torr. Fl. New York 2: t. 122 (1843).
Adicea deamii Lunell Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 10 (1913).
Adicea glabra Raf. First Cat. Gard. Transylv. Univ.: 13 (1824).
Adicea pumila (L.) Raf. ex Torr. Fl. New York 2: 223 (1843).
Adicea trinervia Raf. ex Torr. Fl. New York 2: 223 (1843).
Adike pumila (L.) Raf. New Fl. 1: 63 (1836).
Dubrueilia pumila (L.) Gaudich. Voy. Uranie: 495 (1830), comb. not made.
Pilea pumila var. deamii (Lunell) Fernald Rhodora 38: 169 (1936).
Urtica fasciculata Savigny in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 4: 640 (1798).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Pilea pumila (L.) A. Cray	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Pilea pumila (L.) A. Gray	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Pilea pumila (L.) A.Cray	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Pilea pumila (L.) Gray	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Pilea pumila A. Gray	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Pilea pumila A.Gray	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Urtica pumila L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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