Taxon:
Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich.
Summary
Place of publication:
Voy. Uranie 499. 1830
Verified:
03/09/2004
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
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- FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. URL: http://floranorthamerica.org/
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- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR. Note: cult.
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Common names
English
China-grass – Chinese silkplant – ramie – French
ramie de Chine – Japanese Rōmaji
nanban-kara-mushi – Portuguese
rami – Spanish
ortiga blanca – ramio – Swedish
rami – Transcribed Chinese
zhu ma – Transcribed Korean
mosipul –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Anhui Sheng | s. |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Fujian Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Gansu Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangdong Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guizhou Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hainan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hubei Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hunan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jiangxi Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Shaanxi Sheng | s. |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Sichuan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Yunnan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Zhejiang Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Korea | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bhutan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Nepal | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Cambodia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Laos | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | natzd. elsewhere |
Native
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China [Anhui Sheng (s.), Zhejiang Sheng, Fujian Sheng, Hunan Sheng, Hubei Sheng, Gansu Sheng, Jiangxi Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guizhou Sheng, Shaanxi Sheng (s.), Sichuan Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, Hainan Sheng]
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EASTERN ASIA:
Korea, Japan, Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bhutan, India, Nepal
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INDO-CHINA:
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
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MALESIA:
Indonesia
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Naturalized
(natzd. elsewhere)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Materials | fiber | | FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. URL: http://floranorthamerica.org/ |
Materials | fiber | | Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). URL: http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2 |
Materials | fiber | | Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 |