Laportea

Laportea
Laportea cuspidata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Urticaceae
Genus: Laportea
Gaudich. (1830)

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:

The genus was named after the French naturalist François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Laportea". Flora of North America.
  2. Weddell, H. A. Chloris Andina. 1857. Essai d'une flore de la region alpine des Cordilleres de l'Amerique du Sud. Vol. 1. Bertrand.
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