Literature for Neraudia angulata
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Neraudia angulata var. angulata Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Neraudia angulata var. dentata Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
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Urticaceae -- The Cecropia, Nettle Family | Bibliography |
Neraudia angulata |
General Information | |
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Distribution | |
Habit |
Erect shrubs 1.5-3 m tall; branches pubescent with erect and ± appressed hairs. |
Leaves |
Leaves grayish to greenish on lower surface, thin, elliptic, elliptic-ovate, or ovate, 7-15 cm long, 3-5.5 cm wide, upper surface sparsely silky pubescent, the hairs somewhat spreading or appressed, 0.2-0.4 mm long, lower surface moderately silky pubescent, the hairs appressed or somewhat spreading, 0.3-0.6 mm long, their tips primarily directed toward apex and margins, margins coarsely dentate above the middle or entire, apex long-acuminate or acute, base cuneate to rounded, petioles 0.8-3 cm long, pubescent with appressed and spreading hairs. |
Flowers |
Staminate flowers on pedicels 0-1 mm long, calyx silky pubescent, the hairs ascending, the lobes 2-3.5 mm long; pistillate flowers sessile, calyx conspicuously angled, silky pubescent, the hairs ascending to erect, also with some short, erect, uncinate hairs, apex 4-toothed, the teeth acuminate to long-acuminate, stigma 2-8 mm long, lacking receptive hairs on 1 surface. |
Fruit |
Achenes 1.5-2 mm long, angled, surrounded by the conspicuously angled and ridged, fleshy calyx, apical portion conical, not separated from basal portion by a constriction. |
Seeds |
Seed ovoid. |