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Magnoliopsida
Laportea Gaudich.
EOL Text
Dioecious or monoecious, annual or perennial herbs, not climbing, bearing stinging hairs, these less than 5 mm long. Stipules fused, intrapetiolar. Cystoliths present. Leaves alternate, simple, serrate. Inflorescences usually unisexual panicles, sometimes appearing spicate or as interrupted spikes. Male flowers: actinomorphic, 4-5-merous with the same number of stamens as tepals. Female flowers with 4 free, very unequal, tepals; ovary ovoid. Achene flattened, rugose.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:33
Specimens with Sequences:51
Specimens with Barcodes:36
Species:10
Species With Barcodes:9
Public Records:26
Public Species:7
Public BINs:0
Laportea is a genus of plants in the family Urticaceae.
They are herbaceous, either annual or perennial. Like many plants of the Urticaceae, they have stinging hairs, and have stinging and non-stinging hairs on the same plant.[1]
The genus contains 22[1] species, including:
- Laportea aestuans (L.) Chew. - West Indian woodnettle
- Laportea canadensis (L.) Weddell. - Canadian woodnettle
- Laportea cuneata (A. Rich.) Chew. - Weedy woodnettle
- Laportea cuspidata
- Laportea interrupta (L.) Chew. - Hawaiian woodnettle
- Laportea pterostigma Weddell. - Poisonous woodnettle
- Laportea urentissima Gagnep.
The genus was named after the French naturalist François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau[citation needed].
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Laportea". Flora of North America.
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