Laportea bulbifera(Siebold & Zucc.) Wedd.

WFO wfo-0001143616 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Laportea bulbifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2014-10-22 / obs. 52041862
Laportea bulbifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52041888
Laportea bulbifera, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. c WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101879466
Laportea bulbifera, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. d WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101879482
Laportea bulbifera, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. e WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101879496

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Laportea bulbifera is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanManchuriaPrimoryeTibetAssamEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MyanmarNepalSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Korea
Native distribution of Laportea bulbifera, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR
Manchuria CHM
Primorye PRM
Tibet CHT

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 17 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 bodinieri H.Lév.
  • Fleurya bulbifera (Siebold & Zucc.) Blume ex Miq.
  • Laportea bulbifera subsp. dielsii (Pamp.) C.J.Chen
  • Laportea bulbifera subsp. latiuscula C.J.Chen
  • Laportea bulbifera subsp. rugosa C.J.Chen
  • Laportea bulbifera var. sinensis S.S.Chien
  • Laportea dielsii Pamp.
  • Laportea elevata C.J.Chen
  • Laportea evitata Wedd.
  • Laportea oleracea Wedd.
  • Laportea sinensis C.H.Wright
  • Laportea terminalis Wight
  • Urtica bulbifera Siebold & Zucc.
  • Urtica evitata Wall.
  • Urticastrum bulbiferum (Siebold & Zucc.) Kuntze
  • Urticastrum evitatum (Wedd.) Kuntze
  • Urticastrum oleraceum (Wedd.) Kuntze

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.

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