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Dendrocnide moroides
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gympie gympie, mulberry-leaved stinger, stinging tree
species of plant in the family Urticaceae
Species
Gympie Stinging Tree
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRosales
- FamilyUrticaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 50
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Urticaceae
- Collections
- MEL, RSA, MNHN, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Australia, Vanuatu, Indonesia, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dendrocnide
- Image
- Dendrocnide moroides small plant SF21168.jpg
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- Dendrocnide moroides
- Commons category
- Dendrocnide moroides
- short name
- D. moroides
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Encyclopedic overview
Dendrocnide moroides, commonly known in Australia as the stinging tree, stinging bush, or gympie-gympie, is a plant in the nettle family Urticaceae found in rainforest areas of Malaysia and Australia. It is notorious for its extremely painful and long-lasting sting. The common name gympie-gympie comes from the language of the indigenous Gubbi Gubbi people of south-eastern Queensland.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dendrocnide moroides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.