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Smilax canariensis
Smilax canariensis is a species of endemic creeper flowers that belong to the Crassulaceae family. The species are founded in the Madeira (mainly only on the island of Madeira) and the Canary Islands. The species was described by Sabin Berthelot and was named by Philip Barker Webb in 1840, it was published in Natural History of the Canary Islands, p. 184.
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Description
The species is a climbing wintergreen plant. It has few or no thorns. The width to length ratio of its leaves is about 0.6. The flowers are unisexual, in a simple umbel. Its fruits are black when ripe.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 465779.