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Parietaria

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Parietaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae, native to temperate and tropical regions across the world.

Species

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Genus

  1. PhylumTracheophyta
  2. ClassMagnoliopsida
  3. OrderRosales
  4. FamilyUrticaceae
Native toAfghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas
Observations26,208

Common Name: caapique

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
608
With media
373
Family
Urticaceae
Collections
VT, IBUNAM, IEA-UAT, CICY, DERN-IMECBIO-CUCSUR-UDG, INECOL
Recorded in
United States, Mexico, Romania, Tunisia, South Africa

Research

631 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

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Parietaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae, native to temperate and tropical regions across the world.

They are annual or perennial herbaceous plants growing to 20–80 cm tall, with green or pink stems. The leaves are alternate, simple, entire, often with a cluster of small leaves in their axils. Individual flowers are bisexual or unisexual, produced in clusters of three to many together in the leaf axils. Plants have either bisexual flowers or both staminate ("male") and carpellate ("female") flowers. The fruit is a small dry achene.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parietaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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