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Myriocarpa
''Myriocarpa'' is a genus woody plant which ranges in size from shrubs to small trees and is endemic to Central and South America. Within the Urticaceae, ''Myriocarpa'' is characterized by long pendulous string-like female inflorescences of apparently naked flowers and stems which release a watery latex when cut. Estimates for the diversity of the genus range from five to eighteen species.〔Burger, W. 1977. Myriocarpa, Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Botany 40: 237-240.〕〔Friis, I. 1989. The Urticaceae: a systematic review. In P. R. Crane and S. Blackmore (), Evolution, systematics, and fossil history of the Hamamelidae, vol. 2, Systematics Association Special Volume 40B, 285–308. Oxford Science Publications, Oxford, UK〕 Research for Flora Mesoamericana indicates that there are probably fifteen to twenty species.
The genus was described by George Bentham in 1846〔Bentham, G. 1846. The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur 168, t. 55.〕 based on Colombian specimens of ''Myriocarpa stipitata'' collected by Mss. Barclay. Weddell placed ''Myriocarpa'' in the Urticaceae tribe Boehmerieae〔Weddell, H. A. 1856. Urera. In G. Baudry and J. Baudry (), Monographie de la famille des Urticacées. 484–490. G. and J. Baudry, Paris, France.〕〔Weddell, H. A. 1869. Myriocarpa. In A. De Candolle (), Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 16, 23533–23536. Paris, France.〕 despite its anomalous pubescence, cystolith morphology and wood anatomy. In his review of the Urticaceae,〔 Friis retained its position within the Boehmerieae, presumably because its position in any other Urticaceae tribe would be equally ambiguous. The position of ''Myriocarpa'' within the Boehmerieae is not supported by recent phylogenetic analyses of trnL-F sequence data〔Monro, A.K. 2006. The revision of species-rich genera: a phylogenetic framework for the strategic revision of Pilea (Urticaceae) based on cpDNA, nrDNA, and morphology Am. J. Botany 93: 426-441〕 that recovered ''Myriocarpa'' within a strongly supported clade including both the Urticeae and Lecantheae tribes.
Its position within either one of these tribes however, is unresolved. Based on hair, leaf and flower morphology, Myriocarpa could equally well be placed in the Lecantheae (absence of hooked hairs) or the Urticeae (alternate leaves, pistillodes not ejecting the achene) and further research, both molecular and morphological, is warranted.
The last major revision of the genus, at which time six species were recognized, was that of Hugh Algernon Weddell.〔 Since this revision ''Myriocarpa'' has attracted little taxonomic interest outside of floristic treatments,〔〔Standley, P. C., & J. A. Steyermark. 1952. Pilea, Flora of Guatemala.Fieldiana, Botany 3: 404–406.〕 despite its unusual female inflorescence morphology and ambiguous position within the Urticaceae and currently a total of 24 species names have been published.〔International Plant Names Index. 2006. Available at website http://www.ipni.org (1 July 2006 ).〕
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