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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Urena
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 692. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 309. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Urena
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Urena]]</div></div>
|etymology=Malayalam ooren, to loosen or soak, alluding to retting process to extract fibers from stem tissues of U. lobata
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 215, 218
|treatment_page=page 373
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, subshrubs, or shrubs, stellate-hairy or glabrate. <b>Stems</b> erect. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules early-deciduous, subulate; blade variable, sometimes ovate, [oblong or lanceolate], often 3–5-angled, -lobed, or –parted, base truncate to cordate, margins crenate [serrate], surfaces minutely stellate-hairy, with 1+ prominent, foliar nectaries (glands) on abaxial side at base of central vein. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary solitary flowers or fascicles, [terminal racemes]; involucel present, bractlets persistent, 5, basally connate. <b>Pedicels</b> 1.5–7 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes keeled, 1-veined, lanceolate, elliptic to ovate, usually acute, usually obscured by involucel; corolla shallowly campanulate to rotate, rose-pink, drying lavender; staminal column included; ovary 5-carpellate; ovules 1 per cell; style 10-branched, 2 per carpel; stigmas capitellate. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, erect, not inflated, oblate, unwinged, slightly indurate; mericarps 5, 1-celled, without dorsal spur, apex rounded, dorsal surface prominently glochidiate [smooth], otherwise hirtellous or glabrous, flat lateral surfaces striate, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per mericarp, obovoid or reniform, glabrous. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=nearly worldwide in tropical and warm regions.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Urena
|author=Steven R. Hill
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=nearly worldwide in tropical and warm regions.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_692.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Urena
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