Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Annual or perennial herbs, shrubs
or small trees, monoecious or dioecious, sometimes with stinging hairs. Stipules usually present. Leaves alternate or
opposite, simple or lobed, usually strongly 3-veined from the base. Cystoliths generally present. Inflorescences usually
cymose, densely clustered. Flowers minute, unisexual, with 1
whorl of tepals. Ovary superior with 1 erect basal ovule.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Urticaceae Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=227
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
