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Urticaceae FAMILY

Elatostema platyphyllum

Elatostema platyphyllum

Edibility
3/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

Unlike many other plants in the nettle family (Urticaceae), plants in this genus do not have stinging hairs[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitShrub
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Elatostema+platyphyllum>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Australian Rainforest Plants Volumes 1 - 6 — Nicholson N. & H. · Terania Rainforest Publishing; New South Wales. · 2007 · ISBN 9-78095894-3628 ↩︎Beautiful set of booklets with a terse description of over 600 species and their habitat, often including some of their uses and notes on their cultivation, plus at least one, excellent photograph.
  2. [2]Flora of China — Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. · 1994 · http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ ↩︎An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available.
  3. [3]Trace elements and antioxidant activity of six wild edible plants that are widely consumed by ethnic tribes of Aruna — Medak B. & Singha L.B. · 2018 · http://10.18805/IJARe.A-4755 · ISBN 0367-8245 ↩︎
  4. [4]Traditional Knowledge of Adi Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh on Plants. — Srivastava R.C. · Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge. · 2009 Vol. 8(2) ↩︎Basic information on the plants that the Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh use.
  5. [5]Ethnomedicinal Plants of North-East India — Choudhury S.; Bahadue B. & Pullaiah T. · Apple Academic Press; Oakville, Canada · ISBN 13: 978-1-77188-4 ↩︎