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Urtica africana

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Identification
Urtica africana L. ex B.D.Jacks. [family URTICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Urtica capensis L.f. [family URTICACEAE ] Verified by Smith, Sir James Edward,
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  • Urtica capensis
  • Urtica africana

Flora

Entry for ACALYPHA decumbens Müll. Arg. var. β, villosa [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
ACALYPHA decumbens Müll. Arg. var. β, villosa [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 864
Urtica capensis Linn. f. [family URTICACEAE], Suppl. 417.
Urtica africana Linn. mss. ex Jackson [family URTICACEAE], in Ind. Linn. Herb. 148.
Tragia villosa Thunb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Prodr. 14, and in Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 37; not Acalypha villosa, Jacq.
Acalypha kraussiana Buching. ex Meisn. apud Krauss [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 84; Müll. Arg. in Linnæa, xxxiv. 39.
Acalypha lamiifolia Scheele [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxv. 587; Baill. Adansonia, iii. 158.
Acalypha grandidentata Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 823.
Acalypha capensis Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 15.
Information
twigs, petioles and leaves beneath densely softly velvety with longish grey hairs; leaves above sparingly adpressed white-pubescent; female bracts softly strigose with spreading white hairs; leaves larger, up to 2 in. long, 1 1/2 in. wide, more uniformly cordate at the base; male spikes as in the type. null

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