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POUZOLZIA RUGULOSA TRANSFERRED FROM BOEHMERIA, AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN BOEHMERIA AND POUZOLZIA (URTICACEAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2009

C. M. Wilmot-Dear ,
N. Acharya ,
T. I. Kravtsova  and
I. Friis
C. M. Wilmot-Dear
Affiliation:
The Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, England, UK.
N. Acharya
Affiliation:
Formerly at the Botanical Garden, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-0862 Japan, and later at the Department of Plant Resources, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal.
T. I. Kravtsova
Affiliation:
Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2 Prof. Popova St., St Petersburg 197376, Russia.
I. Friis
Affiliation:
Botanical Garden and Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Gothersgade 130, DK-1123 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
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Abstract

Pouzolzia rugulosa (Wedd.) Acharya & Kravtsova, comb. nov., is transferred from the genus Boehmeria on the grounds of the anatomy and morphology of the fruit, correlated with molecular data. A revised set of anatomical and morphological characters is provided to distinguish between Boehmeria and Pouzolzia. Pouzolzia rugulosa shares morphological similarities with a group of serrate-leaved taxa in that genus known from Asia and Oceania. It is a shrub or small tree and is found along the southern slopes of the Himalayas from Himachal Pradesh in northern India to the mountains of northern Burma. It occurs in forest at elevations of up to 1900 m, mainly at forest edges and in clearings. A full description of Pouzolzia rugulosa, including drawings and SEM images of the fruit, is provided, together with a key.

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BoehmeriafruitITS2perianthpericarpphylogenyPouzolziaPouzolzia rugulosaSEMtaxonomyUrticaceae
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 51 - 64
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Copyright © Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 2009

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