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Pepper elder ( Peperomia pellucida ) is a species of plant in the Piperaceae, annual herb, shallow roots, succulent stems, cylindrical, bright green or reddish, glossy, up to 15-45 cm tall, grows in shady places on the forest floor and cliffs. P. pellucida has heart-shaped leaves, fleshy, flat margins, green and glossy upper side, pale underside and radial veins. Fruit in panicles with long spike-like stalks, erect. The fruit is round like a point, green and turns black. Flowering all year round, this plant is found in a variety of shady and humid habitats. The species grows in clumps in loose, moist soil and tropical to subtropical climates. Rainfall up to 3000 mm/year, elevation 50-1200 meters, andosol and latosol soil with organic matter content up to 5% and no shade. Plants contain calcium oxalate, essential oils, alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides, phenols, saponins, steroids, terpenoids, tannins, patuloside A, dillapiole, inulin, terpenes, phytosterols. All parts are edible....

Laba-laba embun or lawn wolf spider ( Hippasa holmerae ) is a species of animal in the Lycosidae, small, brown, white, cotton-like knitted nests that clump on the grass above the ground. H. holmerae has an oval head segment, brown or greenish in color with white striped margins and white hairs. The upper surface is flat, the front is blackish with white lines. The abdominal segment is oval in shape and is brown or blackish or greenish in color. The top surface is decorated with black and white stripes. The legs are brown, white and black which alternately form rings. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Suborder: Araneomorphae Infraorder: Entelegynae Superfamily: Lycosoidea Family: Lycosidae Subfamily: Hippasinae Genus: Hippasa Species: Hippasa holmerae Subspecies: Hippasa holmerae ssp. sundaica

Kaktus giwang or crown of thorns ( Euphorbia milii ) is a species of plant in the Euphorbiaceae, a sub-shrub or shrub, woody succulent, erect, up to 1.8 meters high, thorny stems dense, straight and slender, up to 3 cm long to help creep over the plant other. E. milii has leaves at the tips of new shoots, oval in shape, green, thick and fleshy. Flowers have a pair of conspicuous petal-like bracts, red or pink or white, up to 12 mm wide. Crown of thorns grows at 4-40C in open, sunny but tolerant of little shade and low rainfall. It is widely used as an ornamental and medicinal plant. Flowers are used to treat uterine bleeding, stem shoots for hepatitis, leaves for burns and stems for ulcers. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Malpighiales Family: Euphorbiaceae Subfamily: Euphorbioideae Tribe: Euphorbieae Subtribe: Euphorbiinae Genus: Euphorbia Subgenus: Euphorbia Section: Goniostema Species: Euphorbia milii Subspecies: Euphorbi...

Monkey bush ( Abutilon guineense ) is a species of plant in the Malvaceae, shrub, erect, cylindrical stem, erect, sturdy, branched, green or reddish in color, grows in forests, agricultural land and roadsides. A. guineense has large, heart-shaped leaves, pointed tip, radial veins, toothed margin or can be flat, bright green above, pale underside. The leaves have long stalks, grow at different points or alternate along the stem and are green or reddish in color. The flowers are fan-shaped, yellow and have long stalks. The fruit is a pod-like capsule. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Malvales Family: Malvaceae Subfamily: Malvoideae Tribe: Malveae Genus: Abutilon Mill. First published in Gard. Dict. Abr., ed. 4.: [s.p.] (1754) Species: Abutilon guineense (Schumach.) Baker f. & Exell First published in J. Bot. 74(Suppl.): 22 (1936) Variety: Abutilon guineense var. forrestii (S.Y.Hu) Y.Tang, Abutilon guineense var. guine...

Landep or porcupine flower ( Barleria prionitis ) is a species of plant in the Acanthaceae, shrub, branched, up to 1.8 meters high, lower leaf axils have spines 1-2 cm long, stems and branches terete, smooth, lenticels and glabrous. B. prionitis has elliptical to ovate leaves, up to 20 cm long, 8 cm wide, both surfaces pubescent when young but soon become glabrous. Flowers are golden yellow, clustered in the axils of the upper leaves or in the bracts. Apical spinous calyx lobes and crown are yellowish to orange in color. Porcupine flower grows on forest floors, meadows, plantations, roadsides, shrubs and dry places with elevations up to 600 meters. This plant is used in traditional medicine to treat whooping cough and tuberculosis, infected wounds, toothache, ulcers and swollen glands, rheumatism and prevent maceration. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Lamiales Family: Acanthaceae Subfamily: Acanthoideae Tribe: Barler...

Glandur ( Mycetia cauliflora ) is a plant species in the Rubiaceae, perennial shrub, erect, up to 2 meters high, cylindrical stem, woody, branched, bark dark brown and rough, grows on shady forest floors, plantations and roadsides. M. cauliflora has leaves oblong-lanceolate to obovate, 5-24 cm long, 1.5-8 cm wide, dark green, glabrous upper surface, pinnate base, pointed tip, a main vein in the middle with many small pinnate veins. Inflorescence terminal, 2-10 cm long, puberulent, bract and bracteole are lanceolate, pedicle 10-27 mm long, petal lobe 2-3.5 mm long, corolla tube length 8-20 mm, corolla indument glabrous externally. The fruit is round to elongated oval, plain white. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Gentianales Family: Rubiaceae Subfamily: Rubioideae Tribe: Argostemmateae Genus: Mycetia Species: Mycetia cauliflora

Gold dust weevil ( Hypomeces pulviger ) is a species of animal in the Curculionidae, the adult beetle is 14 mm long, green or blue or black in color and the whole body is covered with green or yellowish green dust-like scales. H. pulviger has a head with a wide, long snout and a chewing mouth. A pair of big, black eyes. A pair of blunt antennas. Cylindrical legs. The larvae are legless maggots and pupate in the soil, feeding on the roots of living plants. Adult beetles are long-lived, eating leaves. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Class: Insecta Subclass: Pterygota Order: Coleoptera Suborder: Polyphaga Infraorder: Cucujiformia Superfamily: Curculionoidea Family: Curculionidae Subfamily: Entiminae Tribe: Tanymecini Genus: Hypomeces Species: Hypomeces pulviger