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Laportea aestuans

Plant photographs and field observations.

Tropical rainforest vegetation at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 4.0

Species notes

About Laportea aestuans

Laportea aestuans (also recorded as Stinging Nettle) is an accepted species in the family Urticaceae, within the order Rosales. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Alabama, Aldabra, Angola, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, and Bolivia. The photographs can be compared for visible features such as growth habit, leaf arrangement, stems, flowers and fruit.

Common name
Stinging Nettle
Family
Urticaceae
Order
Rosales
Identification rank
Species
Recorded distribution
Alabama, Aldabra, Angola, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia

Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy