Compilation
Boehmeria interrupta
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Name
Identification
Boehmeria interrupta (L.) Willd. [family URTICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Boehmeria interrupta (L.) Willd. [family URTICACEAE ] Verified by Smith, Sir James Edward, Fleurya not on sheet Not on sheet [family URTICACEAE ] Verified by Weddell, H.A.,
Related name
- Fleurya not on sheet
- Boehmeria interrupta
Flora
Entry for Laportea interrupta L. Chew [family URTICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 6, page 79, (1991) Author: I. Friis
Names
Urtica interrupta L. [family URTICACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 985 (1753). Type as above.
Boehmeria interrupta L. Willd. [family URTICACEAE], Sp. Pl. 4, 1: 342 (1805). Type as above.
Fleurya interrupta L. Gaudich. [family URTICACEAE], in Freyc., Voy. Monde, Bot.: 497 (1830). —Rendle in F.T.A. 6, 2: 248 (1917). —Hauman in F.C.B. 1: 190 (1948). —Agnew, Upland Kenya Wild Fl.: 321 (1974). Type as above.
Urtica lomatocarpa Steud. [family URTICACEAE], in Flora 33: 260 (1850). —A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 261 (1851). Type from Ethiopia.
Laportea interrupta L. Chew [family URTICACEAE], in Gard. Bull., Singapore 21: 200 (1965). —Letouzey in Fl. Cameroun 8: 125 (1968). —Chew in Gard. Bull., Singapore 25: 145 (1969). TAB. 26, fig. 1. Type from India.
Information
Annual herbs up to c. 1 m. tall, monoecious; stems sparsely branching. Stinging hairs few, up to c. 1.5 mm. long, mostly restricted to upper part of the stem. Leaves crowded towards stem apex, 8–12 x 5–7 cm., ovate; apex acuminate; base rounded to truncate; margin finely serrate with 12–15(30) teeth per side; lamina glabrous or puberulent on both sides, with few stinging hairs, lateral nerves 3–6 pairs. Petiole 5–8 cm. long, pilose to glabrescent, stinging hairs occasional. Stipules 3–5 mm. long, linear. Inflorescences usually bisexual, in axils of upper leaves, or in axils of fallen leaves just above soil level, paniculate, but apparently interrupted-spicate due to reduction of side branches, up to c. 30 cm. long, flowers in cymose clusters c. 10 mm. in diam. Male flowers appearing first, pedicels c. 1 mm. long, perianth 1–2 mm. in diam., (3)4-merous, tepals corniculate. Female flowers pedicellate, pedicels c. 0.5 mm. long, unwinged; ovary compressed, stigma sessile 3-branched. Achenes c. 1.75 mm. long, ovoid, laterally compressed, with a circular ridge surrounding a rugose central part, not stipitate, shed without the perianth.
Habitat
Evergreen rainforest and riverine forest at low altitudes; weed of cultivation in partial shade, or along roadsides in forest.
Range
Almost pantropical
Altitude range
at low altitudes
800
0
inferred from low
Distribution
Mozambique MS Inhamitanga, female fl. 7.v.1942, Torre 4085 (LISC).
Notes
The cited specimen represents the only record from the Flora Zambesiaca area so far.