Laportea is a genus of plants in the family Urticaceae.

Like many plants of the Urticaceae, they have stinging hairs.

There are stinging and non-stinging hairs on the same plant.

[1] The genus was named after the French naturalist Francis de Laporte de Castelnau.

[2] As of August 2020[update], Kew's Plants of the World Online lists 36 species in the genus Laportea:[3]