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Pilea muscosa Lindl. |
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Common names: | Artillery plant (English) Gunpowder plant (English) | |
Description: | Erect or procumbent, usually mat-forming, annual or short-lived perennial, herb, up to 30 cm. Stems slightly fleshy. Stipules up to 1 mm. Leaves of a pair very unequal in size: petiole 0.5-6 mm; lamina 1-15 × 0.5-4 mm, usually obovate, smooth and glabrous; apex rounded; margin entire. Inflorescence a small pedunculate to subsessile cymose cluster, 1-2 together in the leaf axils. Achene 0.5-0.8 mm, obovoid, brown, smooth. | |
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Derivation of specific name: | microphylla: small-leaved | |
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Worldwide distribution: | Probably native in tropical Central America, widely naturalised in subtropical and tropical areas of the world. | |
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