''Eucnide'' (stingbush) is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomencla ...
of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
s in the
family
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Loasaceae
Loasaceae is a family of 15–20 genera and about 200–260 species of flowering plants in the order Cornales, native to the Americas and Africa. Members of the family include annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants, and a few shrubs a ...
.
Species include:
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Eucnide aurea'' (A. Gray) H.J. Thomps. & W.R. Ernst
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Eucnide bartonioides'' Zucc. - Yellow stingbush
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Eucnide rupestris'' (Baill.) H.J. Thompson & Ernst - Rock nettle, rock stingbush
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Eucnide urens'' (Parry ex Gray) Parry - Desert rock nettle, desert stingbush, stingbush
References
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS): ''Eucnide''
Loasaceae
Flora of North America
Cornales genera
Taxa named by Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
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