Laportea Gaudich.

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Urticaceae

• Scientific Name

  Laportea Gaudich.

• Description

  Genus Description - Monoecious, erect herbs with straight and stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, serrate, long-petiolate; stipules free or connate. Flowers in axillary panicles; staminate flowers 4-5-merous, with a rudimentary ovary; pistillate flowers 4-merous, with oblique, 1- locular ovary with erect ovule, the stigma papillose; tepals imbricate. Fruit an oblique achene.