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Entada phaseoloides, commonly known in English as the matchbox bean or St. Thomas' bean, is a large twining vine or liana in the pea and bean family Fabaceae, native to a broad area of Asia-Pacific, from China to northern Australia and the southwestern Pacific.
Pseuderanthemum carruthersii, the Carruthers' falseface, [2] is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is native from the Solomon Islands to Vanuatu. [3] Pseuderanthemum carruthersii is popularly grown as an ornamental outside of its native range. [4] It has been introduced in many tropical countries.
Utricularia heterosepala is a small carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia.. Formerly regarded as endemic to the Philippines, where it can be found on the islands of Palawan, Luzon, and Sibuyan, this species is now known from the Western Ghats in India, and Hualien in Taiwan. [1]
Spermacoce remota, the woodland false buttonweed, [3] is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae. [4] It is native to the southeastern United States (Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama), West Indies (Bermuda, Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad, Lesser Antilles, etc.), Mexico, Central America and South America.
This plant is a big tree that grows to about 8–15 m high. Its leaves are thick, smooth and oval in shape, about 8–12 cm long and 4–5 cm wide, with reddish petioles about 0.5–1.0 cm long. The plant has drooping raceme of up to 50 cm long, with numerous large, white flowers. Its fruit is oval-shaped and about 3 cm long, with 1 seed inside.
The plant is extensively used in Indian traditional medicine. Studies on the root wood of P. serattifolia led to the isolation of acteoside, a glucoside derivative. [5] The root bark of the plant which showed biological activities have also shown to contain a potent cytotoxic and antioxidant diterpene, 11,12,16-trihydroxy-2-oxo-5-methyl-10-demethyl-abieta-1[10],6, 8,11,13-pentene.
Boerhavia erecta plants can survive considerable damage from grazing and fire because their stems produce perennating buds near the ground surface. Stems of B. erecta typically grow to about 60 centimetres (24 in) tall and 3–5 millimetres (0.12–0.20 in) across. They generally are cylindrical without furrows or ridges.
Cordia alliodora is one of several Cordia trees called bocote in Spanish and its wood, which has very little figure, is usually called freijo or jennywood along with that of Cordia goeldiana.