Biology:Laportea

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Laportea
Laportea macrostachya 2007.07.21 07.59.41-p7210062.jpg
Laportea cuspidata
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Urticaceae
Tribe: Urticeae
Genus: Laportea
Gaudich.

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. There are stinging and non-stinging hairs on the same plant.[1] The genus was named after the French naturalist Francis de Laporte de Castelnau.[2]

Species

Laportea canadensis

(As of August 2020), Kew's Plants of the World Online lists 36 species in the genus Laportea:[3]


References

Wikidata ☰ Q139118 entry