Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Rosales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Urticaceae
Genus
Urtica L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Urtica incisa Poir. (1816)
Synonymy:
Lectotype (Grosse-Veldmann et al. 2016):—[AUSTRALIA. Nouvelle Hollande]. Urtica incisa (n), nov. holl., labill. [J. J. H. de Labillardière s.n.] (P-DESF 00601927!). Syntype:—[AUSTRALIA. Nouvelle Hollande]. n. holl., bill. [J. J. H. de Labillardière s.n.] (FI-WEBB 169977!)
  • = Urtica lucifuga Hook.f., London Journal of Botany 6: 285 (1847) var. lucifuga
  • = Urtica lucifuga var. linearifolia Hook.f. in Hooker, London J. Bot. 6: 225 (1847)
  • ≡ Urtica incisa var. linearifolia (Hook.f.) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 636 (1906)
  • ≡ Urtica linearifolia (Hook.f.) Cockayne, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 47: 111 (1914 [1915])
Vernacular Name(s):
Ongaonga; Scrub nettle
 Description

Slender, erect or decumbent, monoecious herb, sparsely to moderately clothed in very shortly stalked stinging hairs, otherwise sparsely hairy or ± glabrous. Lvs ovate to deltoid, acute to acuminate, truncate at base, coarsely serrate to dentate, 4–10–(12) cm long. Stipules 4 per node, entire. Most racemes unisexual; ♀ racemes above ♂ on the stem.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Phenology

Flowering: Sep.–Feb.; Fruiting: Oct.–Mar.

 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
Cockayne, L. 1915: Some New Species of New Zealand Flowering-plants. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 111–118.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [as Urtica linearifolia (Hook.f.) Cockayne] [Declining]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76. [as Urtica linearifolia (Hook.f.) Cockayne]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Declining; Not Threatened]
Grosse-Veldmann, B.; Conn, B.J.; Weigend, M. 2016: Weeding the nettles IV: A redefinition of Urtica incisa and allies in New Zealand and Australia, including the segregation of two new species Urtica sykesii and U. perconfusa. Phytotaxa 245(4): 251–261.
Hooker, J.D. 1847: Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium; or Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 106–125, 265–286, 461–479.