Family: Urticaceae

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Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Rosales Status: Valid

Common Names:

  • Urticaceae - English, United States of America

Vegetative Morphology

Habit: Small trees, shrubs, herbs, or lianas; one genus of epiphytes.

Leaves: Leaves simple, alternate, sometimes with one small leaf opposite the normal one, the lamina entire or weakly lobed, 3-veined from the base, the margins usually serrate.

Stipules: Stipules small.

Reproductive Morphology

Fruit: Fruit an achene or a drupe.

Infructescence: Infructescence axillary.

Other

Ecology: Majority of common species of disturbed areas, needing full sunlight.

Notes: Plants often with urticating hairs.