Loasaceae

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Caiophora is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loasaceae.

Loasa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Loasaceae. The genus contains about 100 species native to Central and South America. of which Loasa vulcanica is perhaps the best known. Species of Loasa are prickly herbs or shrubs that have nettle-like stinging hairs. Some species of Loasa are grown as ornamental plants and are known as Chile nettle. Its flowers have five yellow petals covering united stamens and distinctive large coloured nectaries. Caiophora is a closely related genus that also has stinging hairs and is found on rocky slopes of the Andes.

Eucnide (stingbush) is a genus of plants in the family Loasaceae.

Kissenia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loasaceae.

Blumenbachia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loasaceae.

Klaprothia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loasaceae.

Plakothira is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loasaceae.

Fuertesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Loasaceae. It has only one currently accepted species, Fuertesia domingensis, native to Hispaniola. It is a woody climbing liana.

Huidobria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loasaceae.

Gronovia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Loasaceae, native to Mexico, Central America and northwest South America. They are annual climbing herbs with irritating stinging hairs.

thumb | right | alt=Aosa rupestris in the Botanical Garden, Dresden. | Aosa rupestris in the Botanical Garden, Dresden. Aosa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loasaceae.

Presliophytum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loasaceae.

Petalonyx is a small genus of flowering plants native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. They are known commonly as sandpaper plants, and are most often found in warm, dry desert regions. Sandpaper plants are subshrubs that get their common name from their rough foliage, which is covered in tiny, stiffly curved hairs. They bear racemes of claw-shaped flowers with long stamens extending well beyond the corolla, and unusual in that they emerge from outside the corolla.

Schismocarpus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loasaceae.

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Scyphanthus is a genus of ornamental plants in the family Loasaceae. It includes two species endemic to Central Chile. Scyphanthus elegans Scyphanthus stenocarpus

Cevallia sinuata or stinging serpent is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Loasaceae. It is a perennial or subshrub native to northern Mexico and the southern central United States from Arizona to Oklahoma. It is the sole species in genus Cevallia.