Urena

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Urena (from Uren, the Malabar name). Malvaceae. Herbs or subshrubs of little horticultural interest: plants more or less covered with rigid stellate hairs: lvs. angled or lobed: fls. clustered; calyx 5-cleft; petals 5, often tomentose at the back, free above, connate below; staminal tube truncate or minutely toothed, anthers nearly sessile; ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled: ripe carpels covered with hooked bristles or smooth, indehiscent.—About 8 or 9 species, natives of the tropics and subtropics. U. lobata, Linn. Herbaceous, more or less hairy: lvs. rounded, angled, not divided beyond the middle, cordate, 5-7-lobed, lobes acute or obtuse, about 1-2 x 2-3 in.: fls. pink: carpels densely pubescent, spiny. Tropics of both hemispheres. Very variable. U. stellipila, Lem. Shrubby with a few elongated, fulvous-pilose branches: lvs. distant, rather short-petioled, cuneately ovate-lanceolate, base somewhat cordate, stellate, hairy, coarsely crenulate-dentate: fls. rather large, 1 1/2 in. across, white, in axillary clusters; calyx-segms. lanceolate, acute; petals spatulate. Brazil. J.F. 3:281. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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