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Touchardia
Sign in to saveTouchardia is a genus of flowering plants in the nettle family, Urticaceae. It includes two species native to the Hawaiian Islands. Touchardia latifolia Touchardia sandwicensis
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRosales
- FamilyUrticaceae
Native toHawaii
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 36
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Urticaceae
- Collections
- BPBM
- Recorded in
- United States, Hawaii (Usa)
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Urticaceae
- Image
- Olona.JPG
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- Touchardia
- taxon name
- Touchardia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- touchardia
- Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL
- naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/hawaiianflora/genusdescr.cfm?genus=Touchardia
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Touchardia is a genus of flowering plants in the nettle family, Urticaceae. It includes two species native to the Hawaiian Islands. Touchardia latifolia Touchardia sandwicensis
The name Touchardia is in honour of Philippe Victor Touchard (1810–1879), a French vice-admiral.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Touchardia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.