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- The Plant List
- Angiosperms
- Urticaceae
- Angiosperms
Urticaceae
The family Urticaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
Genera in Urticaceae
- Aboriella
- Achudemia
- Adicea
- Adike
- Archiboehmeria
- Astrothalamus
- Australina
- Balansaephytum
- Boehmeria
- Botrymorus
- Cecropia
- Chamabainia
- Chamaedryfolia
- Conocephalus
- Coussapoa
- Cypholophus
- Debregeasia
- Dendrocnide
- Didymodoxa
- Discocnide
- Distemon
- Droguetia
- Dubrueilia
- Dunniella
- Elatostema
- Elatostematoides
- Fleurya
- Forskohlea
- Forsskaolea
- Freirea
- Gesnouinia
- Gibbsia
- Girardinia
- Goethartia
- Gonostegia
- Gyrotaenia
- Haroldiella
- Helxine
- Hemistylus
- Hesperocnide
- Hyrtanandra
- Laportea
- Lecanocnide
- Lecanthus
- Leucococcus
- Leucosyke
- Maoutia
- Memorialis
- Meniscogyne
- Metatrophis
- Morocarpus
- Musanga
- Myrianthus
- Myriocarpa
- Nanocnide
- Neodistemon
- Neraudia
- Nesobium
- Nothocnide
- Obetia
- Oblixilis
- Oreocnide
- Parietaria
- Parsana
- Pellionia
- Perlarius
- Petelotia
- Phenax
- Pilea
- Pipturus
- Poikilospermum
- Polychroa
- Pourouma
- Pouzolzia
- Procris
- Pseudopipturus
- Ramium
- Robinsoniodendron
- Rousselia
- Sarcochlamys
- Sarcopilea
- Sclepsion
- Soleirolia
- Splitgerbera
- Touchardia
- Urera
- Urtica
- Urticastrum
- Villebrunea
A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Urticaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .
Statistics
Species of Urticaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 54 plant genera.
The Plant List includes 4,918 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Urticaceae. Of these 1,465 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 549 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Urticaceae. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.
Species names
The status of the 4,918 species names for the family Urticaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 1,465 | 29.8% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 1,491 | 30.3% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 1 | 0.0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 1,961 | 39.9% |
All names
The status of the 5,467 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Urticaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 1,540 | 28.2% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 1,956 | 35.8% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 1 | 0.0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 1,970 | 36.0% |
Of the species names,
- 28 are recorded as invalid
- 47 are recorded as illegitimate
The confidence with which the status of the 4,918 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Urticaceae, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
High confidence | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.1% |
 |
Medium confidence | 1,397 | 1,256 | 0 | 0 | 2,653 | 53.9% |
 |
Low confidence | 68 | 231 | 1 | 1,961 | 2,261 | 46.0% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Urticaceae is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 445 | 525 | 1 | 59 | 0 | 1,030 | 20.9% |
| WCSP | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.1% |
| WCSP (in review) | 1,020 | 962 | 0 | 1,902 | 0 | 3,884 | 79.0% |