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Urtica dioica L. Urticaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

Part of the book series: European Ethnobotany ((EUROETH))

Synonyms

Urtica tibetica W.T. Wang; Urtica galeopsifolia Wierzb. ex Opiz.

Local Names

Armenia: (yeghinj erktun); Azerbaijan: İкievli gicitкan; Georgia: – jinch’ari, – dinch’k’iji (Chanetian), – dinch’q’iji (Chanetian), – merkhel (Svanetian), – zhinch’ar (Ingiloian), – ch’akhiana (Meskhetian), – ch’uch’ele (Megrelian), – ch’uch’elia (Megrelian) (Makashvili 1991); English: Stinging nettle.

Botany and Ecology

Perennial. Rootstock creeping underground; stems erect, 60–100 cm long, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, with a dense coating of stinging hairs especially at the nodes. The leaves are ovate-cordate, coarsely serrate with incurved teeth, mostly cordate at base. Acuminate at apex. Stipules free, oblong, scarious, to 12 mm long. The plants are dioecious; the inflorescences are long; they are also branched and covered with simple hairs and scattered stinging hairs. The bracts of the flowers are small. The fruit is 1.25–1.5 mm long and extends beyond the kernel. The plant can be found...

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  1. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botanikuri St. 1, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  2. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba P. Mehdiyeva & Valida M. Alizade

  3. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave., 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  4. Instituto de EcologĂ­a-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  5. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  6. Institute of Botany of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

    George Fayvush & Alla Aleksanyan

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2017). Urtica dioica L. Urticaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_140

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