Global InformationPilea fairchildiana information
| Pilea fairchildiana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Urticaceae |
| Genus: | Pilea |
| Species: | P. fairchildiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Pilea fairchildiana Jestrow & Jiménez Rodr.
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Pilea fairchildiana, which was previously known as Sarcopilea domingensis, is a succulent plant endemic to the Constanza Mountains of the Dominican Republic.[1] It was thought to be under a monospecific genus (Sarcopilea), but with new phylogenetic information is now placed under the genus Pilea.[2]
- ^ Brett Jestrow, James J. Valdés, Francisco Jiménez Rodríguez and Javier Francisco-Ortega (Winter 2013). "Pilea fairchildiana: An unusual, re-classified, succulent earns a new name honoring Dr. David Fairchild" (PDF). The Tropical Garden. Vol. 68, no. 1. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. pp. 34–35. ISSN 2156-0501.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Jestrow, Brett; Valdés, James J.; Rodríguez, Francisco Jiménez; Francisco-Ortega, Javier (2012). "Phylogenetic placement of the Dominican Republic endemic genus Sarcopilea (Urticaceae)". Taxon. 61 (3): 592–600. doi:10.1002/tax.613008. ISSN 1996-8175.