Click for help
Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Parietaria L.

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Parietaria L., Sp. Pl. 1052 (1753)
Parietaria L.
Names_Fungi record source Parietaria

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

L.
L.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
1753
1052
ICN
Parietaria L.
genus
Parietaria

Click to collapse Classification Info

Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Urticaceae
Parietaria

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Parietaria L.

Fls in congested cymes, perfect and protogynous to unisexual; ♂ and perfect fls with deeply 3-4-partite per., segs valvate, stamens 3-4, inflexed in bud. ♀ with tubular per., 3-4-lobed; ovary free, ovule solitary, erect; stigma penicillate. Achene invested by enlarged per. Annual or perennial herbs with alt., petiolate, entire lvs; stipules minute. Genus of some 10 spp. of temperate and tropical regions. The N.Z. sp. is apparently widespread elsewhere, but critical comparisons are necessary.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Parietaria L.

Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes woody at base, without stinging hairs. Lvs alternate, entire, exstipulate. Cymes axillary. Fls inconspicuous, ☿ or unisexual, bracteolate. Perianth green or variously tinged; perianth of ♀ fls 4-partite; perianth of ☿ fls 4-partite, connate at base at flowering, becoming tubular and 4-toothed at fruiting; ☿ fls strongly protogynous. Achenes enclosed in perianth and sometimes in bracteoles.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Parietaria L.
Parietaria L.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Parietaria L.
Parietaria L.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Urticaceae
Parietaria L.
Parietaria
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Parietaria L.
Urticaceae
Parietaria L.
Parietaria L.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

Click to collapse Collections Info

Parietaria L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
2 Link to an external page
Parietaria L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
2 Link to an external page

Click to collapse Metadata Info

a94797d9-7e47-4288-b6ed-697a93a65e10
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 February 2014
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top