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Terminalia chebula, commonly known as black- or chebulic myrobalan, is a species of Terminalia, native to South Asia from India, Pakistan and Nepal east to southwest China (Yunnan), and south to Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 150 species native to tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia, New Guinea, and Australia. Thunbergia species are vigorous annual or perennial vines and shrubs growing to 2–8 m tall. The generic name honours the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828). Its members are known by various names, including thunbergias and clockvine. Thunbergia on its own usually refers to Thunbergia grandiflora, while Thunbergia alata is often known as black-eyed Susan vine or just

Erigeron sumatrensis (syn. Conyza sumatrensis) is an annual herb probably native to South America, but widely naturalised in tropical and subtropical regions, and regarded as an invasive weed in many places.It is a perenial in the Western Cape of South Africa. In the British Isles it is known as Guernsey fleabane. Other common names include fleabane, tall fleabane, broad-leaved fleabane, white horseweed, and Sumatran fleabane.

Astragalus danicus, known as purple milk-vetch, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae (legumes), which is native to Europe.

Melica uniflora, commonly known as wood melick, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae that is native to much of Europe, and to parts of South West Asia and North Africa.

Stellaria palustris, commonly known as marsh stitchwort, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. It was first described in 1791. Its native range is Temperate Eurasia.

Lathyrus sphaericus, commonly known as grass pea and round-seeded vetchling, is a species of annual flowering plant in the legume family (Fabaceae). It typically grows to between 15 and 30 centimetres tall and bears distinctive brick-red flowers. The species is native primarily to Mediterranean and sub-Mediterranean regions, ranging widely from southern Europe and North Africa to Western Asia. It favours dry, nutrient-rich soils and is commonly found in disturbed habitats, including roadsides, vineyards, fields, and pasturelands. Recently rediscovered in Slovakia after a lengthy absence, it

Phalaris minor is a species of grass native to North Africa, Europe, and South Asia. The bunchgrass is widely naturalised elsewhere. Common names include little seed canary grass, small-seeded canary grass, small canary grass, lesser-canary grass, guli danda (Hindi), and sittee booti (Urdu).

Androsace filiformis is a species of flowering plant in the primrose family known by the common names filiform rockjasmine and slender-stemmed androsace. It is an uncommon plant native to the Northwestern United States, California, Colorado, and Utah. It is also known from Eurasia. It grows in mountain meadows, including in the Cascade Range and Rocky Mountains.

Janochloa antidotalis (Punjabi: ਘਮੂਰ ghamur, English: blue panicgrass, synonym Panicum antidotale) is a species of grass. it is the sole species in genus Janochloa. It is a tall (up to 3 metres), coarse, woody perennial grass strong spreading rhizomes. It is native to southern Asia, ranging from the Sinai Peninsula through the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Transcaucasia, the Indian Subcontinent, and Myanmar to Vietnam. In the Indian Subcontinent it is found in the Himalaya and the Upper Gangetic Plain and specifically in various regions of the Indian state of Punjab and the Pakistan province of

Antidesma acidum is a shrub or small tree that is native to an area from Java to Southwestern China and Pakistan. It is a long-lived, shade-tolerant species that is usually found under closed-canopy. The fruit is eaten in many places, the leaves in some locations. In Luang Prabang (Laos) open-air markets, the leaves are only sold alongside Russula mushrooms, to give a sour flavour to soup made from the fungi.

Rosa laxa is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is native to western Siberia, the Altai, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and northern China. A shrub reaching 2 m (7 ft), it is typically found in a variety of wetter habitats; Populus woodlands, scrublands, meadows, valleys, and riversides at elevations from 500 to 1,500 m (1,600 to 4,900 ft).

Hornstedtia is a genus of plants in the Zingiberaceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, southern China, New Guinea, Melanesia and Queensland.

Holmskioldia is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Himalayas (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar) but widely cultivated as an ornamental and naturalized in many places (Southeast Asia, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Mexico, West Indies, Venezuela, etc.) It contains only one known species, Holmskioldia sanguinea, commonly called the Chinese hat plant, cup-and-saucer-plant or mandarin's hat. The genus name commemorates Johan Theodor Holmskiold (1731–1793), a Danish botanist who wrote Beata ruris otia fungis Danicis, published in two volumes

Cyperus imbricatus, also known as the shingle flatsedge, is a species of sedge that is native to sub-tropical and tropical areas of the world. The sedge is a rhizomatous, robust and perennial sedge with a natural distribution through pantropical areas that is also known as an agricultural and environmental weed.

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Galium × pomeranicum is a species of plants in the family Rubiaceae, named for the region historically called Pomerania, now divided between Germany and Poland. The plant is apparently of hybrid origin, a cross between G. album × G. verum, though established in the wild. It is widespread across most of Europe and sparingly naturalized in a few locations in North America (New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Brunswick).

Cyperus exaltatus is a species of sedge that is native to parts of the Africa, Asia, Argentina and Australia. It was first described in 1788 by Anders Jahan Retzius. It grows in shallow water and the edges of streams and lakes.

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Vicia monantha, the barn vetch, is a widespread species of annual herb in the family Fabaceae. It native to the Mediterranean region, and western and central Asia, and has been introduced to Australia. Typical of vetches, it has a climbing habit and pinnate leaves.

Scleria sumatrensis, commonly known as nutrush and Sumatran scleria, is a plant species in the sedge family. It is native to temperate and tropical Asia (in China, India, Malesia, and Sri Lanka), where it is usually found growing in wetlands, and is considered a noxious weed on the island of Borneo. It has been used in traditional medicine against gonorrhea.

Forsskaolea angustifolia is a small shrub or perennial herb. The leaves of the plant are alternate, with dentate, prickly margins, and is densely lanate beneath, with stipules present. Its flowers are monoecious. Its inflorescences are axillary, small, and pinkish, and male flowers have one stamen.

Cyperus luzulae is a species of sedge that is native to parts of southern parts of North America, most of Central America and northern parts of South America.

Cyperus compactus is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to the South East Asia, Madagascar and northern Australia. In Australia it is found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia as well as parts of the Northern Territory and Queensland.

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Pedicularis groenlandica is a showy flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae commonly known as elephant's head, little pink elephant, elephantella, or similar common names inspired by the resemblance of the flower to the head of an elephant. It is also less commonly known as butterfly tongue for the long beak on the flower. Like many other plants in genus Pedicularis, it is a parasitic plant and depends on host plants to survive.

Indigofera linifolia, the narrowleaf indigo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is very widely distributed from Sudan eastwards to the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Malesia, New Guinea and Australia, and it has been introduced to Réunion and New Caledonia. Livestock can consume it as fodder, and in times of famine humans can grind and bake the seeds into a bread. It grows on dry slopes, grasslands, and riversides.

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Memecylon grande is a species of plant in the family Melastomataceae seen in Indo-Malesia. It is a shrub or small tree with ovate leaves, blue flowers and fruits are berries.