Lunduk nettle (Boehmeria clidemioides)

Lunduk nettle (Boehmeria clidemioides) is a species of plant in the Urticaceae, shrub, erect, up to 1 meter high, stems cylindrical, green or red, grows in forests or wastelands.

B. clidemioides has leaves with opposite arrangement and long stalks that are green or red. The leaves are ovate, rough surface, pointed, serrated margins, a vein in the middle with many small pinnate veins.



The inflorescences resemble spikes. Flowers are green or greenish white. The small, oval-shaped seeds are covered with tiny hook-like hairs.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Urticaceae
Genus: Boehmeria Jacq. in Enum. Syst. Pl.: 9 (1760)
Species: Boehmeria clidemioides Miq. in Pl. Jungh.: 34 (1851)
Varieties: Boehmeria clidemioides var. clidemioides, Boehmeria clidemioides var. diffusa (Wedd.) Hand.-Mazz., Boehmeria clidemioides var. umbrosa Hand.-Mazz.

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Boehmeria platyphylla var. clidemioides (Miq.) Wedd. in Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 9: 366 (1856)

PUBLICATIONS

Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.

Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

Grierson, A.J.C. & Long, D.G. (1983). Flora of Bhutan 1(1): 1-186. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.

Lê, T.C. (2003). Danh lục các loài thực vật Việt Nam 2: 1-1203. Hà Nội : Nhà xuất bản Nông nghiệp.

Newman, M., Ketphanh, S., Svengsuksa, B., Thomas, P., Sengdala, K., Lamxay, V. & Armstrong, K. (2007). A checklist of the vascular plants of Lao PDR: 1-394. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.

Pusalkar, P.K., Mao, A.A. & Inge, P. (eds.) (2022). Flora of India 24: 1-688. Botanical Survey of India.

Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 2: 1-1060. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.

Turner, I.M. (1995 publ. 1997). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(2): 347-655.

Wilmot-Dear, C.M. & Friis, I. (2013). The Old World species of Boehmeria (Urticaceae), tribus Boehmerieae). A taxonomic revision. Blumea 58: 85-216.

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (simplified): 白面苎麻
Chinese (traditional): 序葉苧麻
English: Lunduk nettle
Indonesia: Lunduk nettle
Japanese: キダチヒメマオ
Java: Lunduk

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