1980.000 Laportea
FLEURYA Gaudich.
Description of the genus
Dioecious or monoecious, annual or perennial herbs, not climbing, bearing stinging hairs, these less than 5 mm long. Stipules fused, intrapetiolar. Cystoliths present. Leaves alternate, simple, serrate. Inflorescences usually unisexual panicles, sometimes appearing spicate or as interrupted spikes. Male flowers: actinomorphic, 4-5-merous with the same number of stamens as tepals. Female flowers with 4 free, very unequal, tepals; ovary ovoid. Achene flattened, rugose. Worldwide: c. 21 species in warm and tropical regions of the world, extending to temperate E Asia and N America Mozambique: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| aestuans (L.) Chew | N,T,MS | Description, Image |
| alatipes Hook. f. | MS | Description, Image |
| interrupta (L.) Chew | MS | Description, Image |
| mooreana (Hiern) Chew | N,Z,T | Description, Image |
| peduncularis (Wedd.) Chew subsp. latidens Friis | GI,M | |
| peduncularis (Wedd.) Chew subsp. peduncularis | MS,GI | Description, Image |
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