Hesperocnide
tenella #
Annual
or perennial herbs with stinging hairs and opposite petioled leaved with 3-7
nerves, stipitate. Our species dioecious or monoecious, the flowers clustered in
geminate racemes or heads. Staminate calyx deeply 4-parted and with 4 stamens.
Pistillate calyx with unequal sepals, the longer inner ones enclosing the
flattened achene. Stigma sessile,
tufted. (Munz, Flora So. Calif. 847).
Upwards of 40 genera and about 500 species are recognized in many parts of the world, chiefly trop.; a very few are grown for ornament and fibre. (Bailey 342).
Upper Newport Bay species within the family:
Parietaria
hespera var. hespera #
Urtica dioica ssp.
holosericea #
Soleirolia
soleirolii
Urtica urens