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Small herb, up to 1 m tall, densely branched. Chestnut-coloured stem, covered in short stiff hairs, although it can be hairless. Leaves are obovate or lanceolate, up to 10 cm long and 5 cm wide, with a rounded apex; the subspecies E. ...
Shrub, up to 3 m tall, though it does not usually exceed 1.5 m. Highly branched, leaves arranged in apical rosettes, narrow, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, up to 6 cm long. Flowers are yellow, arranged in small umbels. This native Euphorbia ...
Herbaceous shrub, often creeping but can reach up to 60 cm. Highly branched stem; leaves in groups of 2-3, light green or glaucous, linear or oblanceolate, tip generally pointed. Flowers arranged in clusters of 3-5, yellow, forming long ...
Succulent, leafless shrub, creeping or hanging; numerous stems containing milky latex or sap. Stems are glaucous or light green; flowers are greenish-yellow and arranged in clusters. The fruit is long, linear-lanceolate, up to 10 cm long ...
Annual or biennial plant. Rather fragile, up to 80 cm. Branched near the base. Leaves pinnate, up to 35 cm. Umbel rather long, up to 7.5 cm in diameter. Found in the mountainous regions of the island of Santiago, mainly restricted to the ...
Highly branched, woody base, branches up to 80 cm long. Light-green leaves, whitish ribs, lanceolate-spathulate or rarely ovate, up to 8 cm long and 2 cm wide. Bell-shaped flowers, narrow, long (up to 3 cm), whitish-green and occasionally ...
Small shrub, up to 60 cm or, more rarely, 1 m tall. Highly branched, with erect stems that contain numerous linear leaves up to 4 cm long. Flowers are pale purple; the fruit is a long thin siliqua or pod, up to 6 cm long. This endemic is ...
Evergreen shrub, to 40 cm, with numerous basal leaf rosettes. Leaves are obovate or spathulate, up to 10 cm long and 4 cm wide. Inflorescence is a spikelet up to 45 cm long, with tiny bluish-purple flowers. This rupicolous species is ...
One of the few native trees of Cape Verde. It grows to 5-6 m and occasionally to 12 m. Branched from the base; leaves glossy, 12-15 cm long and 7 cm wide, elliptic, round or obovate, apex slightly pointed. Reddish or whitish flowers are ...
Small, compact cushion plant, up to 50 cm. Branches erect or ascending, leaves oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, up to 7 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, silky and smooth to the touch, clustered in rosettes. Flowers are yellow and borne ...
Exclusive to Cape Verde and found on the islands of Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau and Santiago. Small, highly branched, woody at base; flowers generally blue or dark purple, occasionally white. It grows on rocky outcrops and ...
Herb up to 80 cm, highly branched. The stems have a woody base and numerous leaves (from elliptic to very narrow), greyish-green or glaucous and up to 5 cm long by 3 cm wide, unevenly dentate and covered in short stiff hairs. The raceme ...
