Laportea

Accepted species 35 Documented here 8 Family Urticaceae

Accepted species 35 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Laportea canadensis (L.) Wedd. 1,360 documented
Laportea aestuans (L.) Chew 92 documented
Laportea interrupta (L.) Chew 22 documented
Laportea grossa (Wedd.) Chew 19 documented
Laportea oligoloba (Baker) Friis 7 documented
Laportea bulbifera (Siebold & Zucc.) Wedd. 5 documented
Laportea peduncularis (Wedd.) Chew 5 documented
Laportea ruderalis (G.Forst.) Chew 4 documented
Laportea alatipes Hook.f. 2 below the evidence gate
Laportea cuneata (A.Rich.) Chew 1 below the evidence gate
Laportea amberana (Baker) Leandri 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea americana Gaudich. 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea cuspidata (Wedd.) Friis 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea decumana (Roxb.) Wedd. 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea disepala (Gagnep.) Chew 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea floribunda (Baker) Leandri 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea fujianensis C.J.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea humblotii (Baill.) Friis 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea humilis Lauterb. 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea jinganensis W.T.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea lageensis W.T.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea lanceolata (Engl.) Chew 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea laxiflora Wedd. 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea medogensis C.J.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea mooreana (Hiern) Chew 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea ovalifolia (Schumach. & Thonn.) Chew 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea pedunculata K.Schum. & Lauterb. 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea perrieri Leandri 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea septentrionalis Leandri 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea stolonifera Bhellum & B.Singh 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea sumatrana Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea taiwanensis S.S.Ying 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea ventricosa Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea violacea Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Laportea weddellii Leandri 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.