Urticaceae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Urticaceae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Urticaceae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Urticaceae
The Urticaceae are a family, the nettle family, of flowering plants. The family name comes from the genus Urtica. The Urticaceae include a number of well-known and useful plants, including nettles in the genus Urtica, ramie (Boehmeria nivea), māmaki (Pipturus albidus), and ajlai (Debregeasia saeneb).
The family includes about 2,625 species, grouped into 53 genera according to the database of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Christenhusz and Byng (2016). The largest genera are Pilea (500 to 715 species), Elatostema (300 species), Urtica (80 species), and Cecropia (75 species). Cecropia contains many myrmecophytes.
Urticaceae species can be found worldwide, apart from the polar regions.
...Urticaceae in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Brandnetel-familie
- Bokmål
- neslefamilien
- Bulgarian
- Копривови
- Catalan
- Urticàcies
- Chinese
- 蕁麻科
- Czech
- kopřivovité
- Danish
- Nældefamilien
- Dutch
- Brandnetels
- Dutch
- Brandnetelfamilie
- English
- nettles and allies
- English
- cecropia family
- English
- nettle family
- English
- Stinging nettle family
- Estonian
- nõgeselised
- Finnish
- nokkoskasvit
- German
- Brennnesselgewächse
- Hebrew
- סרפדיים
- Hungarian
- Csalánfélék
- Japanese
- イラクサ科
- Korean
- 쐐기풀과
- Modern Greek
- Κνιδοειδή
- Polish
- Pokrzywowate
- Portuguese
- urtigas e afins
- Russian
- Крапивные
- Russian
- Крапіўныя
- Swedish
- nässelväxter
- Thai
- วงศ์กะลังตังช้าง
- Thai
- วงศ์ กะลังตังช้าง
- Turkish
- Isırgangiller
- Ukrainian
- Кропивові
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Ambaiba
- Archiboehmeria
- Astrothalamus
- Australina
- Boehmeria
- Cecropia
- Chamabainia
- Coussapoa
- Cypholophus
- Debregeasia
- Dendrocnide
- Didymodoxa
- Discocnide
- Droguetia
- Elatostema
- Elatostematoides
- Forsskaolea
- Gesnouinia
- Gibbsia
- Girardinia
- Gonostegia
- Gyrotaenia
- Haroldiella
- Hemistylus
- Hesperocnide
- Laportea
- Lecanthus
- Leucosyke
- Maoutia
- Metapilea
- Metatrophis
- Musanga
- Myrianthus
- Myriocarpa
- Nanocnide
- Neodistemon
- Neraudia
- Nothocnide
- Obetia
- Oreocnide
- Parietaria
- Parsana
- Pellionia
- Petelotiella
- Phenax
- Pilea
- Pipturus
- Poikilospermum
- Pourouma
- Pouzolzia
- Procris
- Rousselia
- Sarcochlamys
- Scepocarpus
- Soleirolia
- Touchardia
- Urera
- Urtica
- Zhengyia
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