Nanocnide zhejiangensis X. F. Jin & Y. F. Lu

Aoki, Satoshi, Li, Pan, Matsuo, Ayumi, Suyama, Yoshihisa & Ito, Motomi, 2023, Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Nanocnide (Urticaceae) with particular attention to the Ryukyu Islands endemic N. lobata, Phytotaxa 607 (1), pp. 23-40 : 35-36

2. Nanocnide zhejiangensis X. F. Jin & Y. F. Lu , Nordic J. Bot. 37: e02339. 2019.

Type:— Mainland China. Zhejiang: Mt. Tongling, Meichang , 16 Apr. 2012, X. F. Jin 2806 (holotype, HTC; isotype, PE, ZM) .

Description:—Perennial herb. Stems erect, basally branched, diffuse, 15‒50 cm tall, glabrous. Leaves alternate; blades triangular-ovate, broadly ovate or flabellate, 0.8‒4.0 cm long, 1.0‒ 3.5 cm wide, obtuse at apex, cuneate or broadly cuneate or rarely truncate at base, with deeply 3‒9-crenate margin, adaxially green, sparsely hirsute, abaxially pale green or pale purple, glabrous, 3‒5-veined; cystoliths conspicuous on both surfaces, botuliform; petioles 0.7‒4.5 cm long, glabrous; stipules elliptic-oblong, ovate or broadly ovate, 1.0‒ 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Staminate inflorescences in distal axils, cymose dichotomously branched, longer than leaves, sparsely flowered; peduncles 3.6‒9.0 cm long, glabrous; pedicels 1‒5 mm long, glabrous. Pistillate inflorescences in clusters, in distal axils, shorter than leaves; peduncles 3‒25 mm long, glabrous, without pedicels. Staminate flowers purplish red, ca 2 mm in diam.; perianth lobes five, ovate, 1.2‒1.5 mm long, with green costa, glabrous; stamens five, shorter than perianths, with yellow anthers. Pistillate flowers green; perianth lobes four, unequal, outer two longer, ca 1.5 mm long, boat-shaped, with keeled costa, acuminate or solitary spinose—setaceous at apex, dorsally glabrous, inner two long-ovate, ca 1 mm long, glabrous. Achenes compressed-ovoid, pale yellow, ca 1 mm long, verrucose.

Distribution:—Endemic to Mainland China (Mt. Tongling in Zhejiang).