Cissus verticillata

Climbing plant, glabrous with tendrils; articulated branches. Alternate, simple, oblong to ovate leaves, up to 15 cm, densely pilose to glabrous, with a slightly serrated margin. Pedunculate cymes, yellow, highly ramified; small, green or yellow-green flowers. Ovoid or globose berries, purple to black, 8 to 10 mm, with a single seed.

Cissampelos pareira

Herbaceous climbing plant, pubescent to tomentose. Suborbicular or ovate leaves, 3.5 to 10 cm, rounded to emarginated, often peltate. Staminate inflorescence in corymbs up to 7 cm born in the axils of the leaves; green female flowers in racemes of up to 8 cm. Subglobose drupe (fruit), reddish from 3.5 to 4.5 mm in diameter.

Cinnamomum verum

8-15 m tree, very aromatic bark. Opposite and subopposite leaves, up to 15 cm, markedly trinerved from the base to near the apex, shiny in the beam, hairless, ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, rounded at the base. White-yellowish flowers in loose panicles. Fruits of 1.7 cm with a point.

Dysphania ambrosioides 

Annual or perennial herb, upright, up to 1.5 m, very aromatic. Lanceolate to elliptic, sinuate-dentate, acute, up to 13 cm, glandular leaves. Flowers in dense clusters or in spikes; 3 to 5 sepals, ovate; petals absent. Small fruit inside the calyx with black seeds.

Chamissoa altissima

Woody climbing plant. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, acuminate or acute, from 6 to 18 cm. Axillary or terminal inflorescences of up to 20 cm; flowers 3 to 4 mm; white or greenish sepals, oval to
oblong. 4 to 5 mm long globular to ovoid utricle; black lenticular or reniform seeds.

 

 

Euphorbia hirta

Herbaceous annual, stems 30 cm high, tomentose and with abundant yellowish hairs. Opposite leaves with short petioles, ovate to lanceolate laminae, almost always rhombiform, 1 to 3 cm long, rounded base, acute apex, serrated margins, almost always with red or purple spots. Terminal and axillary inflorescences, pedunculate, with small purple glands. Capsules from 1 to 1.2 mm long, pubescent-strigose.

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