URTICAL. - NETTLE
Scientific Description:
Annual or perennial herbs, furnished with stinging hairs. Leaves opposite, dentate, stipulate. Inflorescences of axillary false spikes, racemose or rarely globose heads of clustered cymes. Flowers green, monoecious or dioecious. Male flowers 4-merous, with 4 equal perianth segments and 4 stamens set regularly round a rudimentary ovary. Female flowers also 4-merous but perianth segments in two pairs, the inner pair ± membranous-accrescent in fruit and enclosing the achene.
Reference:
Townsend CC (1982). Urtica L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 633.
Public Description:
Urtica, commonly known as “nettle” or “stinging nettles”, is a genus of annual or perennial herbs. It is native to Asia, Europe and Caribbean. There are approximately 53 species in the world and 5 species (8 taxa) in Türkiye. Nettle species have been used in folk medicine, herbal tea, food and fiber production since ancient times.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtica/Accessed date: 24.11.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016) http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Urticaceae/Urtica//Accessed date: 24.11.2016.
Ekim T (2012) Urtica L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 881–882.
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