Droguetia iners(Forssk.) Schweinf.

WFO wfo-0000656823 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Droguetia iners, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-11-09 / obs. 105169071
Droguetia iners, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 105171724
Droguetia iners, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58337325
Droguetia iners, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15198838
Droguetia iners, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. e Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 106539072
Droguetia iners, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 105169048
Droguetia iners, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15198841
Droguetia iners, photographed by Christina
fig. h Christina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131874309

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Droguetia iners is native: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, China South-Central, Taiwan, Yemen, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Jawa AngolaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesDR CongoEthiopiaGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMalawiRwandaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZimbabweChina South-CentralTaiwanYemenAssamEast HimalayaIndiaJawa
Native distribution of Droguetia iners, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
DR Congo ZAI
Ethiopia ETH
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Rwanda RWA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI
Yemen YEM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Boehmeria capensis (Thunb.) Spreng.
  • Boehmeria parvifolia Wedd.
  • Boehmeria pauciflora (Hochst. ex Steud.) Blume
  • Didymogyne abyssinica Wedd.
  • Droguetia burchellii N.E.Br.
  • Droguetia diffusa Wedd.
  • Droguetia pauciflora (Hochst. ex Steud.) Wedd.
  • Droguetia thunbergii N.E.Br.
  • Droguetia urticoides (Wight) Wedd.
  • Droguetia woodii N.E.Br.
  • Forsskaolea urticoides Wight
  • Parietaria capensis Thunb.
  • Pouzolzia pauciflora (Hochst. ex Steud.) A.Rich.
  • Urtica iners Forssk.
  • Urtica pauciflora Hochst. ex Steud.
  • Urtica rivularis Schltdl. ex Wedd.
  • Urtica urens f. iners (Forssk.) Batt.
  • Urtica urens var. iners (Forssk.) Wedd.
  • Urtica verticillata Vahl

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.