Urera baccifera

Urera baccifera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rosales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Rosales

Familia: Urticaceae
Tribus: Urticeae
Genus: Urera
Species: Urera baccifera

Name

Urera baccifera (L.) Gaudich. ex Wedd., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 3, 18: 199. 1852.

Synonymy

• Basionym
  • Urtica baccifera L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1398. 1763.

• Homotypic
  • Urera baccifera (L.) Gaudich., Voy. Uranie, Bot.: (496–)497. 1826 [1830], comb. inval.

• Heterotypic
  • Urtica horrida Kunth in Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.) 2(5): 41. 1817. – Nov. Gen. Sp. (folio ed.) 2(5): 33. 1817.
  • Urtica armigera C.Presl, Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., ser. 5, 3: 540. 1845. – Bot. Bemerk.: 110. 1846.
  • Urtica grandidentata Liebm., Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., Naturvidensk. Math. Afd., ser. 5, 2: 296. 1851, nom. illeg. hom. – non Urtica grandidentata Moris, Stirp. Sard. Elench. 2: 9. 1828.
  • Urera armigera (C.Presl) Miq., Fl. Bras. (Martius) 4(1): 192(–193). 1853.
  • Urera horrida (Kunth) Miq., Fl. Bras. (Martius) 4(1): 192. 1853.
  • Urera baccifera var. horrida (Kunth) Wedd., Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 9(1–2): 151(–152). 1856.
  • Urera rugosa Rusby, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28(5): 310. 1901.
  • Urera viridisetosa Rusby, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 232. 1927.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Northern America Mexico Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest. Southern America Central America Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. Caribbean Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is. Northern South America French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela. Western South America Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. Brazil Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central. Southern South America Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Paraguay. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Kunth, C.S. 1817. Urticeae. Juss. Pp. 28–50, t. 103 in Humboldt, A., Bonpland, A. & Kunth, C.S., Nova genera et species plantarum, quas in peregrinatione ad plagam aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt, descripserunt, partim adumbraverunt Amat. Bonpland et Alex. de Humboldt, Tomus 2 (quarto ed.). Sumtibus Librariae Graeco-Latino-Germanicae, Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]. BHL Reference page. 
• Kunth, C.S. 1817. Urticeae. Juss. Pp. 23–40, t. 103 in Humboldt, A., Bonpland, A. & Kunth, C.S., Nova genera et species plantarum, quas in peregrinatione orbis novi collegerunt, descripserunt, partim adumbraverunt Amat. Bonpland et Alex. de Humboldt, Tomus 2 (folio ed.). Sumtibus Librariae Graeco-Latino-Germanicae, Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]. e-rara.ch Reference page. 
• Rusby, H.H. 1901. An enumeration of the plants collected by Dr. H. H. Rusby in South America, 1885–1886, XXXI. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 28: 301–313. DOI: 10.2307/2478639 BHL JSTOR Reference page. 
• Rusby, H.H. 1927. Descriptions of new genera and species of plants collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley, 1921–1922. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 7: 205–387. BHL Reference page. 
• Weddell, H.-A. 1852. Additions a la flore de l’Amérique du Sud. (Suite.) Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, série 3, 18: 193–232. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. 2012. Urticaceae. In Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 919–930. DOI: 10.5479/si.0081024X.98.1 BHL Reference page. 
• Killip, E.P. 1937. 49. Urticaceae. In Macbride, J.F. (ed.), Flora of Peru. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13(2/2): 331–367. BHL Reference page. 
• Killip, E.P. 1960. Urticaceae. In Woodson, R.E., Jr., Schery, R.W. & Collaborators, Flora of Panama, Part IV, Fascicle 2. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 47: 179–198. BHL Reference page. 
• Monro, A.K. & Rodríguez, A. 2009. Three new species and a nomenclatural synopsis of Urera (Urticaceae) from Mesoamerica. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96: 268–285. BHL Reference page. 
• Pool, A. 2005. Urticaceae. Pp. 391–402 in Steyermark, J.A. (†), Berry, P.E., Yatskievych, K. & Holst, B.K. (eds.), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Vol. 9, Rutaceae–Zygophyllaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. ISBN 1-930723-47-4. Reference page. 
• Rodríguez, A. 2015. Urticaceae. Pp. 464–537 in Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera, C. & Zamora, N. (eds.), Manual de plantas de Costa Rica, Vol. VIII, Dicotiledóneas (Sabiaceae–Zygophyllaceae). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. ISBN 978-1-935641-12-4. Reference page. 
• Villaseñor, J.L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559–902. DOI: 10.1016/j.rmb.2016.06.017 Online PDF Reference page. 

Links

• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Urera baccifera. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2018.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Urera baccifera.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Urera baccifera in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 2018-03-27.
• Hassler, M. 2018. Urera baccifera. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 June 22. Reference page. 

• Tropicos.org 2018. Urera baccifera. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2018.
• Tropicos.org: Flora Mesoamericana: Urera baccifera. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2018.
• Urera baccifera in Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Accessed: 14 April 2018.
• Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of the Department of Antioquia (Colombia): Urera baccifera. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2018.
• Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: Urera baccifera. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2018.
• Tropicos.org: Peru Checklist: Urera baccifera. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2018.
• Tropicos.org: Bolivia Catalogue: Urera baccifera. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2018.
• Urera baccifera in Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Accessed: 27 March 2018.
• Urera baccifera in Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. Accessed: 27 March 2018.

Vernacular names

English: Scratchbush

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