5006.000 Urena L.

Description of the genus

Suffrutices. Leaves palmately-nerved, entire to 3-5-palmately lobed, with a conspicuous gland at the base of the central vein. Flowers axillary, solitary or fasciculate. Epicalyx bracts 5, connate at the base and adnate to the calyx. Calyx cup-shaped, deeply 5-fid. Petals pink or mauve. Style-branches twice the number of carpels. Fruit composed of 5 indehiscent mericarps, bearing glochidiate spines on the back.

Worldwide: 6 species in tropical and warm regions

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

Insects associated with this genus:

Botyodes asialis Larval foodplant

Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	FZ divisions	Content
lobata L.	N,Z,T,MS,GI,M	Description, Image

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