Editing Cecropia (section)

==Taxonomic history==
''Cecropia'' was first recognized and accounted for by Marcgrave (1648) and Piso (1658), the latter including an illustration with characteristic features.<ref name="BRD"/> Loefling (1758) coined the generic name ''Cecropia''.<ref name="BRD"/> In 1759, [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] described ''[[Cecropia peltata]]'' which he applied to many species.<ref name="BRD"/> [[Carl Ludwig Willdenow|Willdenow]] (1806) created ''C. palmate'', which was also applied to a various species.<ref name="BRD"/> Over the next decade, additional species were added by Bertoloni (1840), [[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius|Martius]] (1841), and [[Frederik Liebmann|Liebmann]] (1851).<ref name="BRD"/> Mixing of specimens was very common and a problem arose, which continues today, with many collections of ''Cecropia''. Many species were also described by Hemsley (1883), Richter (1897), Donnell Smith (1899), Rusby (1907, 1910), Huber (1910), Robinson (1912), Pittier (1917), Bailey (1922), and the most extensive number by Snethlage (1923, 1924).<ref name="BRD"/> Additional species were recognized by Burret (1924), Mildbread (1925, 1933), Standly (1929, 1940), Macbride (1937), Diels (1941), Standley & Steyermark (1944), and Stadley & Williems (1952).<ref name="BRD"/>

Hans Melchior (1964) placed ''Cecropia'' in the Urticales and Moraceae (Concephaleideae) because of its woody bark.<ref name= "Engler">Engler 1964</ref>  Later based on the floral characters, most notably the basal ovule and gynoecium, which appears to be formed from a single carpel, Thorne (1976) moved it to the Malvanae- Urticales, family Urticaceae.<ref name= "Thorne">Thorne (1976)</ref> Berg (1978), however, placed it in its own family Cecropiaceae. When phylogenetic data became available, ''Cecropia'' was then moved back into the Urticaceae.<ref name= "Judd">Judd et al. (2002)</ref>