Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 035.jpg
Native to Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.
Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO
Location
Kenya (Sue Brown's private garden)
Location Remarks
Town of Limuru, about 30 miles northwest of Nairobi.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Urticaceae
Genus
Urtica
Specific Epithet
massaica
Authorship
Mildbr.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.6
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#285,188 of 335,497
Top 86%
Extinction probability
9%
