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Lady Susan's orchid ( Pecteilis susannae ) is a plant species in the Orchidaceae, a large to giant terrestrial orchid, growing upright, white flowers and large in karst to limestone landscapes and flowering December-January. P. susannae has an erect, thick, leafy stem with a basal sheath and is oval in shape with a pointed tip and has no stalk. Large flowers, stalks and ovaries 4-6 cm, shallow wings and hairless. Dorsal sepals erect, ovate to globose, 2.5-3 x 2-2.8 cm, blunt end rounded. Lateral sepals spread, broadly ovoid, slightly oblique, 2.5-4 x 1.2-2.2 cm, usually slightly longer than the dorsal sepals and blunt apex. Calyx linear lance-shaped, 7-12 x 2.5 mm, lip irregularly ovate and 2.5-4.0 x 2.5-4.4 cm. Lateral lobes broad, subflabellate, 1.6-2.2 x 1.8-2.4 cm, entire lateral margin, apical margins frayed torn, Mid-lobe linear-oblong, 18-30 x 4-6 mm, moderately fleshy and intact. Straight to gradually curved forward, 6-13 cm x 3-5 mm and pointed end. TAXON Kingdom: Pl...

Giri pea ( Chamaecrista pratensis ) is a species of plant in the Fabaceae, perennial, shrub, erect, up to 50 cm tall, branched, cylindrical stems, brown or green, hairy or hairless, grows in forests, agricultural fields, roadsides and wastelands of elevation of about 1000 meters. C. pratensis has leaves with short petioles, seated alternately, dark green and hairy. The strands have units, paired on straight bones and are cylindrical in shape. Leaf units are elongated, base and tip rounded or sharp. The flowers are disc-shaped, tend to close and have a bright yellow color. Pod-shaped fruit, elongated, straight or slightly curved, flat and hairy. The seeds are arranged along the length of the pod. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae Tribe: Cassieae Subtribe: Cassiinae Genus: Chamaecrista (L.) Moench in Methodus: 272 (1794) Species: Chamaecrista pratensis (R.Vig.) Du Puy in...

Walking maidenhair fern ( Adiantum philippense ) is a species in the Pteridaceae, suplir with tendrils tend to be unbranched, arising from a spreading rhizome, dangling or slightly erect, stalks are black and smooth. The leaves are bright green, slightly round in shape when they are small, but become half-moon-shaped when they are large. Flat surface. Sori at the edges and protected by leaf edge folds. Walking maidenhair fern grows to form colonies, easy to grow in lowlands to highlands, damp places, banks of ditches or rivers, cliffs, rock fractures or walls. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Class: Polypodiopsida Subclass: Polypodiidae Order: Polypodiales Suborder: Pteridineae Family: Pteridaceae Subfamily: Vittarioideae Genus: Adiantum Species: Adiantum philippense Subspecies: Adiantum philippense ssp. intermedium, Adiantum philippense ssp. philippense, Adiantum philippense ssp. teestae

Java plum ( Syzygium cumini ) is a species in Myrtaceae, a small or medium sized tree, sturdy, leaves grow all year round, woody stem, 10-30 meters in diameter, white, crooked, up to 20 meters high, reverberant up to 90 cm, low branched and titled round or irregular. S. cumini has thick leaves, seated opposite and stalks 1-3.5 cm long. Strands oval to oval, 5-25 cm long, 2-10 cm wide. Wide base to round, blunt to tapered end and flat edge. Dark green color, shiny on the upper side, slightly smells of turpentine when crushed and young leaves are bright red. Inflorescences in panicles, appear on the branches, tenuous, have 1-3 branches. Small flowers, sitting tightly, 3-8 buds at each end of the stalk and fragrant. Calyx broad bell-shaped, 4-6 mm high, yellow to purplish. Crown is round and loose, 3 mm, white-gray to bright red and falls easily. Stamens 4-7 mm and pistils 6-7 mm. The fruit is oval to ovoid in shape, often bent and 1-5 cm long. The skin is thin, smooth, shiny, dark ...

Native bryony ( Diplocyclos palmatus ) is a species of plant in the Cucurbitaceae, seasonal herb, climbing, cylindrical stems, green, tender, branching, soft, stem ends threaded to attach to supports, grows in bushes, forests and agricultural land. D. palmatus has finger-shaped leaves, up to 14 cm wide, 5-7 lobes, each has a main vein with several small veins, sharp tip, toothed margins and dark green color. Leaves have stalks up to 7 cm long. Star-shaped flowers, white with yellow center, 1 cm wide. The fruit is round, up to 2 cm wide, green when young and red when old, white linear stripes and very short stalks. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Cucurbitales Family: Cucurbitaceae Tribe: Benincaseae Genus: Diplocyclos (Endl.) T.Post & Kuntze in Lex. Gen. Phan.: 178 (1903) Species: Diplocyclos palmatus (L.) C.Jeffrey in Kew Bull. 15: 352 (1962) Subspecies: Diplocyclos palmatus subsp. affinis (Endl.) P.S.Green, Dipl...

Climbing bridelia ( Bridelia stipularis ) is a species of plant in the Phyllanthaceae, evergreen, growing climbing on large trees or shrubs or fences, stems cylindrical, woody and stiff, bark brown, bare and branching. B. stipularis has leaves that sit alternate and opposite, oval in shape, a major vein in the middle, minor veins laterally, green on top, pale underside. Leaves have short stalks. Inflorescences grow in the axils of the leaves, star-shaped and green or red. The fruits grow in the axils of the leaves, clustered, round or slightly oval in shape, smooth surface, green in color and change to red and black. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Malpighiales Family: Phyllanthaceae Subfamily: Phyllanthoideae Tribe: Bridelieae Genus: Bridelia Willd. in Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 4: 978 (1806) Species: Bridelia stipularis (L.) Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 597 (1826) HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS Clutia stipularis L. in Mant. Pl.: 127 (177...

Creeping coldenia ( Coldenia procumbens ) is a species of plant in the Boraginaceae, perennial herb, lying and creeping on the ground, radiating stems with many branches and up to 40 cm long. C. procumbens has leaves that are arranged alternately along the stem, oval to almost round, about 2.5 cm long, covered with dense hairs and toothed to almost lobed margins. Flowers solitary, small, white, mostly hidden between the leaves. Fruit ovoid, 4-5 mm in diameter, lobed 4, beak with irregular protrusions. This species grows in floodplains and riverbanks that are seasonally inundated, mostly on sandy or silty soil at elevations up to 750 meters. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Boraginales Family: Boraginaceae Subfamily: Cordioideae Genus: Coldenia L. in Sp. Pl.: 125 (1753) Species: Coldenia procumbens L. in Sp. Pl.: 125 (1753) HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS Coldenia angolensis Welw. in Ann. Cons. Ultramar. (Portugal), Parte Nâo Off. ...

Menjing ( Alchornea rugosa ) is a species of plant in the Euphorbiaceae, shrub or small tree, cylindrical stem, 1.5-5 meters high, petiole 0.5-3 cm long. leaf length 10-21 cm, leaf width 4-10 cm, thin, blunt base and jagged edges. A. rugosa has flowers in terminal, branched, 7-25 cm long. Flowers are yellow or white or green. Fruits are round with linear indentations like crystals. Menjing grows in dense forests or open forests with elevations up to 600 meters and adapts well to dry soils, red soils and flooded soils. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Malpighiales Family: Euphorbiaceae Subfamily: Acalyphoideae Tribe: Alchorneeae Subtribe: Alchorneinae Genus: Alchornea Sw. in Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occid.: 98 (1788) Species: Alchornea rugosa (Lour.) Müll.Arg. in Linnaea 34: 170 (1865) HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS Cladodes rugosa Lour. in Fl. Cochinch.: 574 (1790) HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS Adelia glandulosa Blanco in Fl. Filip.: 814 (1837) Alc...

Canar or white dotted greenbrier ( Smilax leucophylla ) is a species of plant in the Smilacaceae, climbing plants, stems have tendrils, dark green stems, cylindrical stems and red or brown stiff spines. S. leucophylla has oval-shaped leaves extending to oval wide, sitting alternately, 10-32 cm long and 4-22 cm wide. Leaves have 3-5 veins. The upper side surface is dark green, glossy and white spots. Flowers appear in the leaf axils. Male flowers are pale white or greenish yellow or brown. The fruit is round, red and black when ripe and stemmed. Seeds are round, located in the middle of the fruit and 1-6 seeds. This species grows in dry to moist soil in jungles, river banks to ravines and adapts to a pH of 4-6.2. The plant is used as rheumatism, syphilis, ulcers, menstrual disorders, hemorrhoids, swelling due to sprains, antiseptic, antibacterial, stomachache and antidote. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Liliopsida Order: Liliales Famil...

Giga grass ( Cymbopogon rectus ) is a species of plant in the Poaceae, perennial, growing in clumps, up to 3 meters high, having many large fibrous roots, erect or sloping stems, clustered, hollow, green to yellow in color. C. rectus has ribbon-shaped leaves, like paper, curved, increasingly pointed towards the end, green, a large linear bone in the middle and a rough surface. Flowers in panicles and grows at the tips. Giga grass grows wild in colonies on forest slopes, roadsides, abandoned land and elevations up to 1000 meters. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Panicoideae Tribe: Andropogoneae Genus: Cymbopogon Spreng. in Pl. Min. Cogn. Pug. 2: 14 (1815) Species: Cymbopogon rectus (Steud.) A.Camus in Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Colon. 1: 270 (1921) HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS Andropogon nardus var. rectus (Steud.) Hack. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 6: 607 (1889) Andropog...

Temu putih or white tumeric or zedoary ( Curcuma zedoaria ) is a species of plant in the Zingiberaceae, herbaceous perennial, up to 50 cm high, leaves lanceolate elongated, green and purple along the midrib. Flowers come out of the side rhizome, towering upwards to form a large flower head. The corolla is white or green with red or yellow at the top and edges. The rhizome is white or bright yellow. Zedoary grows wild at elevations up to 1000 meters and has been commercialized for its rhizome medicinal and medicinal uses. Natural products are widely used in the perfume industry, dyes for the food and drug industries or drug mixtures. The rhizome is used as a cure for scurvy, skin inflammation, blood washing, flatulence and other disorders of the digestive tract. Research shows antitumor, hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity. The essential oil components of the rhizomes consist of Guaian derivatives (kurkumol, kurkumenol, Isokurkumenol, Prokurkumenol, Kurkurnad...

Purple yam ( Dioscorea alata ) is a species of plant in the Dioscoreaceae, climbing shrub up to 10 meters, fibrous root system, tubers round or flat long and branched. The skin of the tuber is brown to blackish-brown and coarsely grooved. The inner tubers are white or purple or yellow and slimy. Male flowers are yellow or greenish and female flowers are yellow. Compound inflorescence, in the axils of the leaves, the male grains are tightly packed, 12-50 cm long, green crown and 2 mm long. Stem has 4 corners with fins, climbing to the right, not spiny but sometimes rough or speckled at the base and green or purplish in color. Leaves are ovate or heart or arrow-shaped or lance-shaped, single, alternate at the base, opposite at the top, bright green or often slightly purplish, 15-20 cm long and 10-15 cm wide. Tubers and young leaves are cooked in various ways as food ingredients. The tubers can be processed as flour or thin pieces or for the manufacture of alcohol. Cultivars with purpl...

Blood lily ( Scadoxus multiflorus ) is a species of plant in the Amaryllidaceae, a bulbous shrub that produces rhizomes. Leaves and flowers may appear together or leaves may be produced later. The base of the leaves and stems are tightly wrapped to form a pseudo-stem or false stem, 5-60 cm long. Flowers in umbels at the top of the stem, leafless, 12-75 cm long. Pseudostems and scapes are often covered with reddish brown to dark purple spots. The flower umbel is in the shape of a globe with 10-200 individual flowers. Each flower has a stalk, 15-45 mm long. The tepals and filaments of the stamens are red. The base of the tepals is fused to form a cylindrical tube, 4-26 mm long, the free end of the tepals 12-32 mm long, narrow and spreading. The fruit is a berry having a diameter of 5-10 mm. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Liliopsida Order: Asparagales Family: Amaryllidaceae Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae Tribe: Haemantheae Genus: Scadoxus Raf. ...

Chinese swimming scorpion ( Lychas mucronatus ) is a species of animal in the Buthidae, total length 21-90 mm, yellow-brown in color with blackish patterns on the body, legs and the last segment of the metasoma. The upper side surface has a pattern of yellow spots. The tail consists of large, rounded segments with black tips. Males are distinguished from females in that the proximal pedipalp finger is curved and the edges do not meet. L. mucronatus lives in grasslands, shrubs, moor and surrounding habitats tree. These scorpions occupy four characteristic types of microhabitats including leaf litter, weathered wood, in the soil, and under rocks. Most commonly found in grassland and shrub habitat with sloping contours with microhabitat under rocks. TAXON Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Scorpiones Suborder: Neoscorpionina Infraorder: Orthosterni Parvorder: Buthida Superfamily: Buthoidea Family: Buthidae Genus: Lychas Koch (1845) Spec...

Awned panick grass ( Oplismenus compositus ) is a species of plant in the Poaceae, 15-150 cm long, leaves lanceolate or ovate, 2-16 cm long, 8-35 mm wide, strands veined and have transverse veins, pointed or slightly pointed ends. O. compositus has racema composed of inflorescences, grows on the side of the central axis, unilateral and 2.5-11 cm long. The middle inflorescence axis is 5-25 cm long with angular rachis and pilose at the bottom. The spikelets are arranged in 2 rows, namely fertile, pedicelled and sessile. Stem oblong. The spikelet also has one basal sterile floret and one fertile floret. 2.5-4 mm long and lanceolate. Glumes are shorter than spikelets and thinner than fertile lemmas. The bottom is ovoid with a tent length of 3-10 mm. The upper glume is ovoid, obtuse and 0-4 mm long. The flower buds are 2-2.5 mm long, pubescent, emarginate and mucronate. The florets and glumes have a keel. Glume is 5 items and florets are 7-11 items. Fruit linear and 0.5 mm long. TAXON K...

Srengseng ( Benstonea kurzii ) is a species of plant in the Pandanaceae, shrub, 1-2 meters high, short stems or no trunks, 2 cm in diameter at the lower end, brownish, without spines, mostly or completely lying on the ground or climbing on the stems other plants and without root. B. kurzii has ribbon-shaped leaves, narrow, 92-150 cm long, 2.5-4.0 cm wide, chartaceous, two linear folds, cross section forming the letter M and a prominent vein on the underside. Thorns along the margins and veins of the lower side. Compound fruit, almost round to broadly oval, 5.5-8 cm long, 3.5-4.3 cm wide and composed of 168-308 drupe. The fruit is brown, single and erect at the end of the stem. Srengseng grows at an elevation of 20-1000 meters, in tropical rain forests. The leaves are traditionally woven to make a kind of mat, hood or wrapper for brown sugar. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Liliopsida Order: Pandanales Family: Pandanaceae Genus: Benstonea C...

Northern wattle ( Acacia crassicarpa ) is a species of plant in the Fabaceae, small or medium tree, up to 25 meters tall, upright trunk, up to 50 cm in diameter, bark brown or gray or dark red, hard, linearly fissured fibrous . A. crassicarpa has crescent-shaped leaves, 8-27 cm long, 1-4.5 cm wide, grayish green or silvery green, pointed at the tip, has three main veins and is yellowish in color. The inflorescences are grain-shaped, bright yellow and 4-7 cm long. The flower stalks are thick, 5-10 mm long, five-strand corolla 1.3-1.6 mm long and bisexual. The pods are flat and wide. Seeds are round, flat and black. This tree easily adapts to the environment, tolerant of pH 3.5-6, grows at elevations of 200-700 meters and rainfall of 1000-2500 mm/year. Salt tolerant in soil, sandy, silt, poorly drained soil and near the sea. It grows in dry areas such as savanna and monsoon forests. Wood is used as raw material for making pulp and paper, building construction, furniture and raw m...