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Deciduous tree, up to 10 m. Leaves simple, alternate and lanceolate, generally with uneven margins (crenate or slightly serrate) and up to 15 cm long by 3 cm wide, light green, but silvery and pubescent on the underside. Numerous flowers, ...
The archipelago of the Azores is located at some 1,380 km from Portugal and is made up of nine islands, arranged in three groups: the eastern isles of Santa Maria and São Miguel, the central isles of Terceira, São Jorge, Graciosa, Pico ...
The archipelago of Cape Verde, located at some 500 km to the west of Dakar (Senegal) and 1,300 km south of the Canary Islands, is composed of 10 islands and several islets, spread over 4,033 km2. From an administrative, and partly ...
The archipelago of Madeira is situated around 700 km off the coast of Northwest Africa and some 500 km from the Canaries. Madeira (736 km2) is the main island and the largest, followed by Porto Santo (42.2 km2) and a group of uninhabited ...
Small shrublet, herbaceous, highly branched, erect or ascending, glabrous, with latex, like other species of the genus Euphorbia. Leaves are more or less lanceolate, 15-45 mm long and 8-15 mm wide, blunt and sessile. Flowers are ...
Deciduous shrub or small tree, with a smooth brown bark. Leaves are simple, entire, elliptic and acuminate, up to 15 cm long and 8 cm wide, slightly pubescent on the underside and brilliant green. Flowers are axillary, clustered at the ...
Evergreen tree, up to 12 m. Leaves are linear-lanceolate, dark green, up to 10 mm long and 2 mm wide. Female cones are almost globose, up to 8 mm across, initially green, becoming brown. This characteristic species is dominant in the ...
Shrub up to 3.5 m tall. Leaves are alternate, oblong, acuminate and serrate on the margins, 3-5 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, with numerous flowers of red, white or pink petals in a bell-shaped corolla. Fruits are rather fleshy, ...
Grass 30-70 cm tall, densely caespitose, erect or pendulous. Very fine linear leaves and floral spikelets arranged in dense greenish-white panicles. It is found on cliffs and badlands in coastal areas and other environments up to 200 m ...
Woody shrublet, up to 60 cm tall, very branched and white-tomentose. Leaves are elliptic or obovate-lanceolate, 2.5-5 cm long and 0.8-2 cm wide; the floral head or capitulum is 4-6 mm wide and has yellowish, semi-globose flowers. Typical ...
Up to 1.5 m tall, very branched, fragile stalks. Leaves heart-shaped to triangular-ovate, pubescent and white-tomentose beneath, and auricles or ear-like projections on the leaf stalk. Floral capitula are arranged in numerous clusters of ...
This thyme was formerly included in the species Thymus caespititius, found in the Azores and in the west of the Iberian Peninsula. It has recently been reclassified as an endemic of Madeira. A scrambling shrub, it is much broader than ...
