Laportea

Laportea
Laportea cuspidata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Urticaceae
Genus:	Laportea Gaudich. (1830)

Laportea is a genus of plants in the family Urticaceae.

They are herbaceous, either annual or perennial. Like many plants of the Urticaceae, they have stinging hairs, and have stinging and non-stinging hairs on the same plant.

The genus contains 22 species, including:

The genus was named after the French naturalist François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau.

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