UPSC 2026 prelims botany: Urena lobata economic plant notes
Dear IAS/CSE Aspirants, 🔖 this details for your prelims 2026 🌿 UPSC 2026 Botany–Economic Plants Focus: Urena lobata ➡️ Urena lobata is a fibrous plant of the Malvaceae family, related to cotton and hibiscus. ➡️ Native to tropical regions of the Americas, including Brazil, but now widely distributed in Asia and Africa. ➡️ It produces strong bast fibres used for making ropes, cordage, sacks and coarse textiles, similar to jute-like fibres. ➡️ The plant is also used in traditional medicine and sometimes as fodder, though it can behave as an invasive weed in agricultural lands.