Pilea

1. (n) pilea
   A genus of apetalous herbs of the order Urticaceæ, tribe Urticeæ, and subtribe Procrideæ, distinguished by the equilateral opposite leaves and loosely branched or somewhat condensed greenish cymes. There are about 175 species, for the most part small weedy plants, widely dispersed throughout the tropics except in Australia, with one, P. pumila, the clear-weed or richweed, with translucent watery stem, common in rich woodlands of the United States. Many species have the peculiarity of developing one leaf of a pair very much larger than that opposite. See artillery-plant, burning-bush, 2 , clearweed, coolweed, and dwarf elder (under elder), the last peculiar in this genus (mainly of weeds) from having a woody stem.
2. (n) pilea
   [lowercase] Plural of pileum.

genus pilea

dicot genus magnoliopsid genus

clearweed dead nettle Pilea pumilla richweed Urtica

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