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|accepted_name=Laportea
|accepted_authority=Gaudichaud Beaupré
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Voy. Uranie
|place=12: 498. 1830, name conserved
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Urticastrum
|authority=Heister ex Fabricius
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Urticaceae;Laportea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Urticaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Laportea]]</div></div>
|etymology=For F.L. de Laporte de Castelnau, leader of expeditions to South America
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, with stinging and nonstinging hairs on same plant. <b>Stems</b> simple, erect. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; stipules present. <b>Leaf</b> blades narrowly ovate to orbiculate, margins dentate or serrate; cystoliths rounded. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary and terminal, of paniculately arranged cymes. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, proximal panicles staminate and distal pistillate, or staminate and pistillate flowers in same panicle; bracts absent. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: tepals 4-5, distinct, equal; stamens 4-5; pistillode knoblike. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: tepals 2-4, distinct, outer pair minute or absent, without hooked hairs; staminodes absent; style persistent even in fruit, hooklike or elongate; stigma extended along style. <b>Achenes</b> stipitate, laterally compressed, ±orbicular, free from and not enclosed by perianth. <b>x</b>=13.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p>Species 22 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Most species of <i>Laportea</i> occur in Africa and Madagascar.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=chew1969a
|text=Chew, W.L. 1969. A monograph of Laportea (Urticaceae). Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 25: 111-178.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants with stinging hairs and stipitate-glandular hairs; base of leaf blade rounded or abruptly attenuate, auriculate; achenes less than 1.5mm.
|[[Laportea aestuans|Laportea aestuans]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants with stinging hairs but without stipitate-glandular hairs; base of leaf blade rounded, truncate, or broadly cuneate, not auriculate; achenes 2mm or more.
|[[Laportea canadensis|Laportea canadensis]]
|}
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name=Laportea
|authority=Gaudichaud Beaupré
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Urticastrum
|basionyms=
|family=Urticaceae
|distribution=North America;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|reference=chew1969a
|publication title=Voy. Uranie
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Laportea
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