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Laportea aestuans (West Indian woodnettle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Laportea aestuans (Urtica aestuans), the West Indian woodnettle, is an annual herb of the Urticaceae or nettle family. It is possibly native to tropical Africa, although it now is widespread as an introduced species throughout both the western hemisphere and eastern hemisphere tropics and subtropics, including the USA (California, Florida, Puerto Rico), Central America, the West Indies, India, Sumatra and Java.
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Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual/Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Predators

Gorilla beringei beringei (Mountain Gorilla)[3]
Hypolimnas dinarcha[4]
Hypolimnas salmacis[4]
Maconellicoccus hirsutus (pink hibiscus mealybug)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Dietary Variability of Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda; Jessica Ganas, Martha M. Robbins, John Boscoe Nkurunungi, Beth A. Kaplin, and Alastair McNeilage; International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 25, No. 5, October 2004, p. 1043-1072
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0