Acalypha L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Euphorbiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Herbs or shrubs. Stems mostly erect. Leaves alternate, stipulate. Flowers in spikes or spike-like racemes; staminate cluster often peduncled, each flower in the axil of a minute bractlet, with a 4-parted calyx and 8-16 stamens united at their bases. Pistillate flowers subtended by a foliaceous bract, which often equals or overtops the staminate, the calyx 3-5-parted; petals wanting in both kinds of flowers; capsule usually of 3, 2-valved carpels, each 1-seeded. [Greek, nettle.] About 250 species, mostly tropical and subtropical. Type species: Acalypha virginica L.