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Pilea serpyllifolia (Poir.) Wedd.

Urticaceae · Dominican Republic, Haiti · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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Summary

Pilea serpyllifolia is a species of plant in the nettle family Urticaceae. It is native to Hispaniola.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pilea serpyllifolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Pilea

Pilea, with 600–715 species, is the largest genus of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pilea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Pilea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “subshrub”, “wet tropical”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Pilea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “subshrub”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 3 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 3 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeDominican Republic, Haiti · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker19.074, -69.457 · in the densest population, 3 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 17 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 3 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Other Pilea 27 in the reference

Pilea angulata Pilea angulata Urticaceae Photo: CC BY, 黃美滿Pilea aquarum Pilea aquarum Urticaceae Photo: CC BY, 如此甚好Pilea cadierei Pilea cadierei Aluminium Plant Photo: CC BY, Greg III EsperaPilea crassifolia Pilea crassifolia Urticaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael Wolf (Webseite)Pilea depressa Pilea depressa Depressed clearweed Photo: CC BY, Eileen Yayreth Pitti SammsPilea fontana Pilea fontana Lesser clearweed Photo: CC BY, Sam TurnerPilea grandifolia Pilea grandifolia Urticaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Salicyna Pilea hitchcockii Urticaceae Pilea inaequalis Pilea inaequalis West Indian clearweed Photo: CC BY, Matteo BellucciPilea involucrata Pilea involucrata Urticaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexander KlinkPilea libanensis Pilea libanensis Urticaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizPilea margarettae Pilea margarettae Margarett's clearweed Photo: CC BY, Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter all 28 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Adicea serpyllifolia; Dubrueilia serpyllifolia; Parietaria serpyllifolia; Pilea alsinifolia; Pilea callitrichioides and 4 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Urticaceae
Described by
(Poir.) Wedd.
Native to
Dominican Republic, Haiti
Wild records
3 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-223 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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