SENECIO
MALVIFOLIUS
(L´Hér.) DC.
Endemic to the Azores
Perennial
herb with up to 120 cm long stems; rounded leaves, 10-15
cm, with lobes, tomentose benethe; Several white or
bluish , pale purple flowers together. Prefers wet shady
places, in ravines craters and in cervices on cliffs. It
has not been recorded above 900m.
HYPERICUM
FOLIOSUM
Aiton - St. John`s Wort Endemic to the Azores
Low glabrous shrub; with narrow ovate-lanceolate leaves
and fairly large yellow flowers in few_flowered terminal
cymes. Frequent specie of the laurel-juniper forest in
all its different types of composition, less frequent in
open grassland vegetation. Generally grows above 400 m
occasionally down to 100 m. It is one of the very few
endemic Azorean plants not endangered by the recent far-
reaching exploitation of the islands natural vegetation
or by competition with exotic invading plants.
PLATANTHERA
MICRANTHA (Hochst.) Schlechter
Endemic to the Azores
Orchid with 50 cm high; The lowest leaves about 10 x
30cm on the stems about four much smaller leaves;
yellow-green flowers, very variable in size and other
characteristics. The altitude range is at least 200-1000
m but most of the localities are above 600 m. In moist
generally strongly exposed places. It is one of the two
orchid species in the Azores is not endangered in the
archipelago.
