Boehmeria

Boehmeria
Boehmeria grandis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Urticaceae
Tribe: Boehmerieae
Genus: Boehmeria
Jacq.
Type species
Boehmeria ramiflora
Jacq. 1760
Species

47 species, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Duretia Gaudich. 1830 nom. nud.
  • Ramium Kuntze 1891 nom. illeg.
  • Splitbergera Miq. 1840

Boehmeria is a genus of 47 species of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae. Of the species, 33 are indigenous to the Old World and 14 to the New World; no species is indigenous to both the Old and New Worlds. The species include herbaceous perennials, shrubs and small trees. Although related to the similar-looking species of the stinging nettles of genus Urtica, species of Boehmeria do not have stinging hairs. Because of the similarity in appearance, some species are commonly called "false nettles".

This genus is named in honor of the German botanist, Georg Rudolf Boehmer.

Cultivation and uses

One species, ramie (Boehmeria nivea) is an important fibre crop. Some are also used as ornamental plants.

Boehmeria species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bedellia boehmeriella, which feeds exclusively on B. grandis.

Species

New World Species

The following species are found in the New World:[1]

Old World Species

The following species are found in the Old World:[2][3][4]

Synonyms

The following names have been synonymized:[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Wilmot-Dear CM, Friis I. (1996). The New World species of Boehmeria and Pouzolzia (Urticaceae, tribus Boehmerieae). A taxonomic revision (PDF). Opera Botanica. 129. Copenhagen, Denmark: Council for Nordic Publications in Botany. pp. 1–103. ISBN 87-88702-37-5.
  2. ↑ Wilmot-Dear, C.M.; Friis, I (2013). "The Old World species of Boehmeria (Urticaceae, tribus Boehmerieae). A taxonomic revision". Blumea. 58 (2): 85–216. doi:10.3767/000651913X674116.
  3. 1 2 Wilmot-Dear, C.M.; Friis, I; Govaerts, R.H.A. (2014). "Nomenclatural corrections to the taxonomic revision of The Old World species of Boehmeria (Urticaceae, tribus Boehmerieae) by Wilmot-Dear & Friis (2013)". Blumea. 59 (2): 95–97. doi:10.3767/000651914X684691.
  4. ↑ Wilmot-Dear CM, Friis I, Thomas Z. (2010). "New Species in Old World Boehmeria (Urticaceae)". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 67 (3): 431–450. doi:10.1017/S0960428610000144.
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