Laportea bulbifera (Siebold & Zucc.) Wedd.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae > Laportea

Characteristics

Herbs monoecious, rarely dioecious. Stems often caespitose, slightly woody at base, 50-150 cm tall, upper stems often zigzagged, 5-angled, rarely branched, axils often with 1-3 woody bulbils, 3-6 mm in diam.; upper stems and petioles pubescent and sparsely armed with stinging hairs, particularly at nodes and apically, glabrescent. Leaves whorled at stem apex or not; stipules early caducous, oblong-lanceolate, 5-10 mm, apex 2-cleft 1/2 of length; petiole 1.5-10 cm; leaf blade light green abaxially, lanceolate to ovate or cordate, sometimes orbicular, 6-16 × 2.5-8 cm, papery, 3-veined, lateral basal pair reaching middle margin, lateral veins 4-6 each side of midvein, reaching teeth or anastomosing before margin, abaxial surface pubescent, veins sparsely armed with stinging hairs, particularly at base, adaxial surface appressed hirtellous and with sparse, stinging hairs, base broadly cuneate, rounded, rarely shallowly cordate, margin crenate, dentate or serrate, apex acuminate; cystoliths minutely punctiform, adaxially conspicuous. Male inflorescences in proximal axils, paniculate, 3-10 cm; female inflorescences terminal or in subterminal axils, 10-25 cm, peduncle 3-10 cm, often with flowers along 1 side. Male flowers pedicellate or subsessile, in bud ca. 1 mm; perianth lobes 5, oblong-ovate, puberulent, apex not corniculate; stamens 5; rudimentary ovary obpyramidal, 0.5 mm. Female flowers: pedicel 2-4 mm, strongly laterally winged; perianth lobes 4, almost free, strongly unequal, dorsal lobe concave, ca. 0.5 mm, 2 lateral larger, enclosing the ovary, oblong-ovate, 1/3-1 × as long as achene, abaxially setulose with stinging hairs, ventral lobe smallest, triangular-ovate, ca. 0.3 mm. Ovary stipitate, asymmetrically ovoid; stigma reflexed, filiform, 2-4 mm. Achene minutely purplish spotted, broadly obovoid or semiorbicular, strongly compressed, 1.5-3 mm in diam., smooth, rarely rugose-striate; pedicel winged, spatulate to obovate, stipe ca. 0.5 mm, strongly reflexed; persistent lateral perianth lobes slightly enlarged, ca. 1.5 mm, investing ca. 1/2 of achene. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Aug-Dec.
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A herb. It grows 50-150 cm tall. The base is slightly woody. The leaves vary in shape from sword shaped to heart shaped and are 6-16 cm long by 3-8 cm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality monoecy
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Mature height (meter) 0.6
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Environment

Woods in mountains all over Japan. Forest margins, thickets, roadsides, often partly shady, moist places at elevations of 700-3500 metres in China.
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It is a tropical plant. In China it grows in partly shaded moist places between 700-3,500 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

The shoots are eaten after boiling.
Uses fiber medicinal
Edible leaves
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Images

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Distribution

Laportea bulbifera world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:854234-1
WFO ID wfo-0001143616
COL ID 3S9J8
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Synonyms

Boehmeria bodinieri Urticastrum oleraceum Laportea evitata Urticastrum evitatum Urticastrum bulbiferum Fleurya bulbifera Laportea terminalis Laportea bulbifera Laportea elevata Laportea dielsii Laportea sinensis Urtica bulbifera Laportea oleracea Laportea bulbifera subsp. latiuscula Laportea bulbifera subsp. rugosa Laportea bulbifera var. sinensis Laportea bulbifera subsp. dielsii