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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Urtica linearifolia (Hook.f.) Cockayne

U. linearifolia (Hook. f.) Cockayne, Trans. Proc. N.Z. Inst.  47:   111  (1915)

Scrambling or climbing, monoecious herb, with few very shortly stalked stinging hairs, otherwise glabrous. Lvs narrowly ovate to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, obtuse at base, coarsely serrate, (2)-3-7 cm long. Stipules 2 per node and 2-fid, or 4 per node and entire. Most racemes unisexual; ♀ racemes below ♂ on the stem.

N.: Wellington Province; S.: Local in lowland swamps.

Endemic.

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