Nepenthes rigidifolia is a critically endangered tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sumatra, where it grows at elevations of 1000–1600 m above sea level.
Congea chinensis is a plant in the Lamiaceae family. In Chinese, it is known as 华绒苞藤.
Rhaphiolepis indica, the Indian hawthorn, India hawthorn, Hong Kong hawthorn or Snow Maiden, is an evergreen shrub in the family Rosaceae.
Yakima bird's-beak, also called clustered bird's-beak (Cordylanthus capitatus), is an uncommon plant of the Western U.S.
Pearsonia is an African plant genus of some 12 species belonging to the family Fabaceae and occurring south of the equator with 1 species found on Madagascar. The species are usually herbs or shrublets with woody rootstocks. Leaves are usually sessile and 3-foliolate. The inflorescence is a congested or lax terminal raceme. The name of this genus commemorates the South African botanist Henry Harold Welch Pearson.
Barbieria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.
Hydrangea stylosa is a species of Hydrangea, native to China.
Premna serratifolia is a small tree/shrub in the family Lamiaceae. It flowers and fruits between May and November. During flowering season, it attracts a large number of butterflies and bees. Synonyms of Premna serratifolia Linn. include P. corymbosa Merr., P. integrifolia L. and P. obtusifolia R. Br.).
Leucas aspera is a species within the genus Leucas and the family Lamiaceae. Although the species has many different common names depending on the region in which it is located, it is most commonly known as Thumbai. Found throughout India, it is known for its various uses in the fields of medicine and agriculture.
Acanthopale pubescens is a species of the genus Acanthopale of the Acanthaceae plant family. The species occurs in East and Southern Africa. Acanthopale pubescensis also known as Herayye in Ethiopia.
Aganosma cymosa is a liana that can grow up to 10 m (33 ft) in length, pale brownish tomentose. Leaf-stalks are 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in), leaf blade broadly ovate or orbicular, 5–16 cm (2.0–6.3 in) by 4–12 cm (1.6–4.7 in), base rounded or obtuse, apex acuminate or obtuse, rarely retuse, lateral veins eight to ten pairs. Flowers are borne in many-flowered clusters at branch ends, which are carried on stalks up to 6 cm (2.4 in). Bracts and bracteoles are very narrowly elliptic, about 1 cm (0.4 in) long. Flower-stalks are about 5 mm (0.2 in). Calyx with several glands inside margin of sepals; sepals very narrowly elliptic, about 1 cm (0.4 in), pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers are white, minutely tomentose outside, glabrous at throat; tube shorter than sepals, 6–7 mm (0.2–0.3 in); lobes oblong, as long as tube. Disc longer than ovary. Ovary pubescent at apex. Follicles 2, cylindric, to 30 cm (12 in) by 0.8–1.2 cm (0.3–0.5 in), yellow hirsute. Seeds oblong, 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) by about 5 mm (0.2 in), coma 2–4.5 cm (0.8–1.8 in). It is native to China, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Indochina.
Carlina salicifolia is a species of thistle found in Macaronesia.
Karomia speciosa is an African deciduous large shrub or bushy tree up to 7 m, and relocated to the family Lamiaceae from Verbenaceae. It is one of 9 species in the genus Karomia, a genus containing species previously classified in Holmskioldia, and is closely related to Clerodendrum. The only remaining species in the genus is Holmskioldia sanguinea, occurring in the foothills of the Himalayas.
Berkheya carlinopsis Welw. ex O.Hoffm. is a Southern African herb or subshrub belonging to the family Asteraceae (Compositae) and was first described in 1896 in Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana 13 34.
A perennial herb or subshrub up to c. 1.5 m. tall. Stems branched, whitish araneose-tomentose, or glabrescent, leafy. Leaves sessile, 3–6 cm. long, dentate to pinnatifid-dentate; lamina 2–3(4) mm. wide and linear or 5–15 mm. wide and lanceolate; teeth 3–8 on each side, each tooth 2–6(10) mm. long, triangular or linear and extended in a tawny spine 2–3 mm. long; margins of teeth and sinuses entire or armed with smaller spines; upper surface smooth or somewhat scabrous, slightly to densely araneose-tomentose or glabrescent; lower surface whitish felted-tomentose. Capitula radiate, solitary and terminal on the branches, or subcorymbosely arranged, 2.5–5(+?) cm. in diam. including the rays. Phyllaries spreading, felted-tomentose outside, subglabrous or glabrous inside, 10–20 x 1–3 mm., linear-lanceolate, spiny-acuminate, ciliate-spinescent on the margins with spines 1–3 mm. long; the outermost phyllaries ± leaf-like with small spine-tipped teeth; inner phyllaries smaller and less spinescent-ciliate. Margins of the receptacular alveolae extended into straw-coloured bristles 1–2 mm. long. Achenes 1.5–3.5 mm. long, turbinate, 8–10-ribbed, strigose-sericeous, glandular-viscid at the apex. Pappus scales 2-seriate, 1–1.5 mm. long, narrowly oblong, acute or subobtuse, denticulate towards the apex.
Cadaba aphylla is one of some 30 species in the genus Cadaba. It grows as a straggly, perennial shrub or small tree, virgate, much-branched, dark green, often with purple bloom, and usually leafless, and may reach 2 m in height. Its branches are somewhat succulent and frequently spine-tipped. Leaves of some 10 x 2 mm are found on seedlings and young branchlets. Its deep red flowers in axillary clusters have prominently exserted stamens, making this a colourful plant in summer. Fruits are some 90 mm in length, green at first, turning a rusty brown when mature, and covered in sticky hairs. A sticky orange pulp covers the small black seeds. This species may occur in dry bushveld or semidesert conditions from tropical Africa to Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa.
Leafless, twiggy shrub to 2 m. tall; branches rather virgate, stiff, smooth, green or glaucous with subspinous apices, glabrous, young branches with subulate leaf scales up to 2 mm. long. Flowers in short, corymbose, axillary racemes; rhachis 0.3–2.3 cm. long, glabrous or glandular-pubescent; bracts subulate, c. 1 mm. long; pedicels glabrous or glandular-pubescent, up to 1.3 cm. long. Sepals 4, yellow or reddish-purple, 1–1.7 x 0.7–1 cm., the lowest rather larger than the remainder, connate at the base into a very shallow receptacle c. 1 mm. in depth, broadly elliptic, obtuse at the apex, with capitate, glandular hairs densely or sparsely scattered on both sides. Petals 0. Androgynophore 2.5–3 mm. long, glabrous, shallowly declinate with a hooded nectary at its base c. 4 mm. broad. Stamens 8; filaments 1 cm. long; anthers 2.3 x 0.75 mm., oblong. Gynophore c. 1 cm. long, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Ovary narrowly cylindric, glabrous or glandular-pubescent; ovules numerous, on 2 placentas; stigma capitate, sessile. Fruit up to 8 x 0.4 cm., cylindric, subtorulose, glandular or minutely verrucose, many-seeded. Seeds brown, c. 0.3 cm. in diam., subglobose.
Cinnamomum kanehirae, also known as small-flowered camphor tree, or stout camphor tree, is a tree within the Lauraceae family and the Cinnamomum genus which is endemic to Taiwan.
Dorstenia barteri is a West African plant species belonging to the family Moraceae.
Hypericum cuisinii is a perennial herb in the genus Hypericum, in the section Adenosepalum. The herb has pale yellow flowers and occurs in Greece and Turkey.
Hypericum humboldtianum is a species of shrub or shrublet in the St. John's wort family native to Colombia and Venezuela.
Passiflora bogotensis is a climbing plant native to Colombia, in the genus Passiflora. It can also be found in Venezuela.
