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Taxon

Urtica massaica Mildbr.

Protologue Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem viii. 275 (1923).BHLIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 035.jpg

Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 035.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 039.jpg

Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 039.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 036.jpg

Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 036.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 034.jpg

Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 034.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 041.jpg

Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 041.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 040.jpg

Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 040.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 037.jpg

Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 037.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 038.jpg

Urtica massaica--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 July 04. 038.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Native to Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

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

Occurrences

No collection number

July 10, 2004

Location

Kenya (Sue Brown's private garden)

Location Remarks

Town of Limuru, about 30 miles northwest of Nairobi.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Urticaceae

Genus

Urtica

Specific Epithet

massaica

Authorship

Mildbr.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

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

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.1

Global rank

#285,188 of 335,497

Top 86%

Extinction probability

9%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →