Boehmeria puya Wall. ex Hook.

, Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1: 26 (-27) (1849). BHL
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:850725-1
Publication
Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. London
Collation
1: 26 (-27)
Family as entered in IPNI
Urticaceae

Type Information

Collector Team
Wallich s.n.
Locality
Hetundah [?Hataura]
Type Herbaria
lectotype K Herb. Hook. 1854
isolectotype K
isolectotype K-W
isolectotype OXF
Chosen By
den Baaker & Mabb. Mabberley's Pl.-Book 1021. 2008 [1 May 2008]
Distribution Of Types
Nepal (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)
Type Remarks
Herb. E India Co. 4605B

Remarks

Protologue: Boehmeria Puya, Wall. Cat. (Urtica frutescens, Roxb. not Thunb.). Although Hooker did not provide a validating description or diagnosis, his preceding reference [= Urtica frutescens sensu Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 589. 1832, non Thunb. 1784] provides the validating description.

Links

Basionym of
Leucosyke puya (Wall. ex Hook.) den Baaker & Mabb., Mabberley's Pl.-Book 1021 (2008).
Basionym of
Maoutia puya (Wall. ex Hook.) Wedd., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 1: 194 (1854).