There is a plant in Lu Fengxian and Luhe County, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, which is called "fire mother" in Hakka. It is used to make soup. What is its scientific name?

Urtica is a perennial herb with a height of 100 cm, quadrangular shape and few branches. Leaf blade nearly membranous, broadly ovoid, elliptic, pentagonal or nearly circular in outline. Lobes gradually increase from bottom to top, triangular or rectangular, green or dark green at the top and light green at the bottom. Petiole densely setose and puberulent.

Urtica in China is distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, southwestern Shaanxi, southeastern Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou and central Yunnan. It is also distributed in northern Vietnam. Born at an altitude of about 100 m or 500-2000 m on slopes, roadsides or semi-humid places near houses.

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Urtica dioecious, rare, male inflorescence nearly spike-shaped, slender, born in the upper part of leaf axils, up to 8 cm long; The female inflorescence is nearly spike-shaped, born in the axils of lower leaves, short and slender, sparsely shortened into clusters, and small umbrella-shaped flower clusters are sparsely born on the sequence axis. Male flowers are sessile or short-stalked, with a diameter of about 65438±0mm when budding and about 2 mm after opening.

Achene is ovoid, biconvex, nearly 65438 0 mm long, slightly blunt at the top, grayish brown when mature, with some warts, and the upper part of the fruit stalk has nodes; Persistent tepals 4, united at the base, sparse and rough on the outside, with two elliptical ovoids on the inner surface, almost as big as the fruit, and two narrow ovoids or inverted ovoids on the outer surface, reaching the middle and lower parts of the inner tepals. The flowering period is from June to August, and the fruiting period is from August to September.

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