Urtica haussknechtii Boiss.

First published in Fl. Orient. 4: 1146 (1879)
This name is a synonym of Urtica dioica subsp. dioica

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

  • Grosse-Veldmann, B. & Weigend, M. (2015). Weeding the nettles III: names nonsense versus names morphotypes in European Urtica dioica L. (Urticaceae). Phytotaxa 208(4): 239-260. [Cited as Urtica dioica.]
  • Humphreys, A.M., Govaerts, R., Ficinski, S.Z., Nic Lughadha, E. & Vorontsova, M.S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. [Cited as Urtica dioica.]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

  • Kandemir, A. (2009). The rediscovery of some taxa thought to have been extinct in Turkey. Turkish Journal of Botany 33: 113-122. [Cited as Urtica haussknechtii.]

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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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