Urticaceae

This list of genera was made in October 2026 according to World Flora Online, Plants of the World Online, Stevens 2001 onwards (APWeb), Fu et al. 2022, Huang et al. 2019, Monro et al. 2026, Wells et al. 2021, and Wu et al. 2013. This list includes only genera present in our herbaria: M and MSB.

All genera (accepted genera in bold)	Stored under	Synonyms included
Achudemia Blume
Astrothalamus C.B.Rob. (prev. under Maoutia Wedd.)
Australina Gaudich.
Boehmeria Jacq.
Cecropia Loefl.
Chamabainia Wight
Coussapoa Aubl.
Cypholophus Wedd.
Debregeasia Gaudich.
Dendrocnide Miq. (prev. under Laportea Gaudich.)
Didymodoxa E.Mey. ex Wedd.
Droguetia Gaudich.
Elatostema J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.		Pellionia Gaudich.
Elatostematoides C.B.Rob. (prev. under Elatostema J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.)
Fleurya Gaudich.	Laportea Gaudich.
Forsskaolea L.
Gesnouinia Gaudich.
Girardinia Gaudich.
Gonostegia Turcz.		Memorialis (Benn.) Buch.-Ham. ex Wedd.
Gyrotaenia Griseb.
Hemistylus Benth.
Hesperocnide Torr.	Urtica L.
Laportea Gaudich.		Fleurya Gaudich.
Lecanthus Wedd.
Leucosyke Zoll. & Moritzi
Maoutia Wedd.
Memorialis (Benn.) Buch.-Ham. ex Wedd.	Gonostegia Turcz.
Musanga C.Sm. ex R.Br.
Myrianthus P.Beauv.
Myriocarpa Benth.
Nanocnide Blume
Neraudia Gaudich.
Nothocnide Blume (prev. under Pipturus Wedd.)
Obetia Gaudich.
Oreocnide Miq. (prev. under Villebrunea Gaudich., Procris Comm. ex Juss.)		Villebrunea Gaudich.
Parietaria L.
Pellionia Gaudich.	Elatostema J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Phenax Wedd.
Pilea Lindl.
Pipturus Wedd.
Poikilospermum Zipp. ex Miq.
Pourouma Aubl.
Pouzolzia Gaudich.
Procris Comm. ex Juss.
Rousselia Gaudich.
Sarcochlamys Gaudich.
Scepocarpus Wedd. (prev. under Urera Gaudich.)
Soleirolia Gaudich.
Touchardia Gaudich.
Urera Gaudich.
Urtica L.		Hesperocnide Torr.
Villebrunea Gaudich.	Oreocnide Miquel

References

Fu, L. F., Wen, F., Maurin, O., Rodda, M., Gardner, E. M., Xin, Z. B., Wei, Y. G., & Monro, A. K. (2022). A revised delimitation of the species-rich genus Pilea (Urticaceae) supports the resurrection of Achudemia and a new infrageneric classification. TAXON, 71(4), 796-813. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12711
Huang, X., Deng, T., Moore, M. J., Wang, H., Li, Z., Lin, N., Yusupov, Z., Tojibaev, K. S., Wang, Y., & Sun, H. (2019). Tropical Asian Origin, boreotropical migration and long-distance dispersal in Nettles (Urticeae, Urticaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 137, 190-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.05.007
Monro, A. K., Maurin, O., Fu, L. F., Wells, T., Sauquet, H., Wilmot-Dear, M., Beentje, J., Hind, D. J., Nan, S., Friis, I., Wei, Y. G., Brewer, G., Cowan, R., Dodsworth, S., Dong, J., Epitawalage, N., Kikuchi, I. A., Moore, A., Ujetz, J., Wu, Z. Y., Larridon, I., Forest, F., Baker, W. J. Gardner, E. (2026). Classification of Urticaceae based on morphology and phylogenetic inference. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boag073
Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since].
Wells, T., Maurin, O., Dodsworth, S., Friis, I., Cowan, R., Epitawalage, N., Brewer, G., Forest, F., Baker, W. J., & Monro, A. K. (2021). Combination of Sanger and target-enrichment markers supports revised generic delimitation in the problematic ‘Urera clade’ of the nettle family (Urticaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 158, 107008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107008
Wu, Z., Monro, A. K., Milne, R. I., Wang, H., Yi, T., Liu, J., & Li, D. (2013). Molecular phylogeny of the nettle family (Urticaceae) inferred from multiple loci of three genomes and extensive generic sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69(3), 814-827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.022