Slender annual or perennial herbs, occasionally subshrubs, with erect or prostrate stems, ± scabrid-pubescent, without stinging hairs; plants monoecious or sometimes dioecious
Leaves alternate or opposite, ovate, crenate-serrate, 3-nerved, petiolate, with dot-like cystoliths; stipules lateral, free
Inflorescences broadly campanulate with many crowded flowers, surrounded by a dentate involucre
Male flowers many at margin of inflorescence, subsessile, shortly pubescent; perianth clavate in bud, split along one side, unequally 3-toothed; stamen 1; rudimentary ovary 0
Female flowers 1 or few, in middle of inflorescence, naked, pedicellate; ovary straight, covered with a woolly tomentum; stigma sessile, filiform, shortly papillose on one side, persistent during ripening; staminodes 0
Achene enclosed in persistent involucre, brown, shiny, woolly or smooth, ovoid, compressed, often crowned by persistent stigma
Seed with thin coat
x = 12 (1 report)
Nomenclature:
Droguetia Gaudich.
Gaudichaud-Beaupré: 505 (1830)
Gaudichaud-Beaupré: t. 114 (1844)
Weddell: 538 (1857)
Weddell: 23557 (1869)
Bentham: 394 (1880)
Engler: 117 (1888)
Brown: 558 (1925)
Friis: 209 (1985)
Friis et al.: 126 (1987)
Friis & Wilmot-Dear: 36 (1988)
Friis: 56 (1989)
Friis: 112 (1991)
Friis: 628 (1993)
Didymogyne Wedd.
Weddell: 207 (1854)
Droguetia section Didymogyne (Wedd.) Benth.
Bentham: 394 (1880)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 7, in the mountains of east tropical Africa, Madagascar, Mascarenes, South India, Java
Southern Africa: Species 2, Northern Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Western and Eastern Cape
References:
BENTHAM, G. 1880. Tribus Urticeae. In G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera plantarum 3. Lovell Reeve & Co., London
BROWN, N.E. 1925. Urticaceae. Flora capensis 5,2
ENGLER, A. 1888. Urticaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3,1
FRIIS, I. 1985. Two new taxa and a new combination in the Urticaceae for the Flora zambesiaca. Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana, Sér. 2, 58
FRIIS, I. 1989. Flora of tropical East Africa. Urticaceae
FRIIS, I. 1991. Urticaceae. Flora zambesiaca 9,6
FRIIS, I. 1993. Urticaceae. In K. Kubitzki, J.G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich, The families and genera of vascular plants - dicotyledons 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
FRIIS, I., IMMELMAN, K. & WILMOT-DEAR, C.M. 1987. New taxa and combinations in Old World Urticaceae. Nordic Journal of Botany 7
FRIIS, I. & WILMOT-DEAR, C.M. 1988. A revision of the tribe Forsskaoleae (Urticaceae). Nordic Journal Botany 8
GAUDICHAUD-BEAUPRÉ, C. 1830. In M.L. de Freycinet, Voyage autour du monde ... exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne. Botanique. Pillet-ainé, Paris
GAUDICHAUD-BEAUPRÉ, C. 1844. Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les annales 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite. Botanique, Atlas. Arthus Bertrand, Paris
WEDDELL, H.A. 1854. Revue de la famille des Urticacées. Annales des sciences naturelles; botanique, sér. 4,1
WEDDELL, H.A. 1857. Monographie de la famille des Urticacées. Gide & J. Baudry, Paris. Reprinted in Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 9
WEDDELL, H.A. 1869. Urticaceae. In A. de Candolle, Prodromus 16,1. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
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