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The genus Urtica is in the family Urticaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Urtica

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Urtica angustifolia Fisch. ex Hornem.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica ardens Link	Accepted		TRO
Urtica atrichocaulis (Hand.-Mazz.) C.J. Chen	Accepted		TRO
Urtica atrovirens Req. ex Loisel.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica ballotifolia Wedd.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica berteroana Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica buchtienii Ross	Accepted		TRO
Urtica cannabina L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica chamaedryoides Pursh	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica circularis Sorarú	Accepted		TRO
Urtica dioica L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica echinata Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica fissa E. Pritz.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica flabellata Kunth	Accepted		TRO
Urtica galeopsifolia J.Jacq. ex Blume	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica glomeruliflora Steud.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica haussknechtii Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica hyperborea Jacq. ex Wedd.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica kioviensis Rogow.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica laetevirens Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica leptophylla Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica lilloi (Hauman) Geltman	Accepted		TRO
Urtica longispica Killip	Accepted		TRO
Urtica macbridei Killip	Accepted		TRO
Urtica magellanica Juss. ex Poir.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica mairei H. Lév.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica masafuerae Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica membranacea Poir. ex Savigny	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica mexicana Liebm.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica mollis Steud.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica morifolia Poir.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica orizabae Liebm.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica parviflora Roxb.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica pilulifera L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica platyphylla Wedd.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica praetermissa V.W. Steinm.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica pubescens Ledeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica rupestris Guss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica sondenii (Simmons) Avrorin ex Geltman	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Urtica spiralis Blume	Accepted		TRO
Urtica stachyoides Webb & Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica taiwaniana S.S. Ying	Accepted		TRO
Urtica thunbergiana Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica triangularis Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		TRO
Urtica trichantha (Wedd.) Acevedo & NAVAS	Accepted		TRO
Urtica urens L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 563 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Urtica. Of these 46 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 47 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Urtica. 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 563 species names for the genus Urtica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	46	8.2%
◕	Synonym	180	32.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	337	59.9%

All names

The status of the 610 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Urtica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	55	9.0%
◕	Synonym	217	35.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	338	55.4%

Of these names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 5 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 563 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Urtica, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	46	166	0	0	212	37.7%
	Low confidence	0	14	0	337	351	62.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Urtica, are as follows: