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n. - Mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettle.

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  • Pisonia grandis forest up to 25 m tall dominates sheltered areas with low numbers of Laportea aestuans, Canavalia cathartica, and Erythrina variegata.
  • In the upper Assam areas of the ecoregion, the forests are made up of Duabanga-Pterospermum-Terminalia in association with Bombax ceiba, Pterspermum acerifolium,...
  • Nettle, Wood Laportea canadensis 105, 177
  • Urticaceæ -- Artocarpus integrifolia, Laportea gaudichaudiana 223-225
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