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Sabicea brasiliensis
Sabicea brasiliensis is a species of woodvine in the family Rubiaceae, and is native to Brazil,[1] and also to Bolivia.[2][3] There are no synonyms.[1] Chemical compounds isolated from its roots have been shown to have significant anti-inflammatory effects.[4] DescriptionWernham describes it as an erect shrub.[2] However, Standley describes it as a "large, woody vine".[3] According to Wernham, the upper surface of its leaves is densely hairy, and the leaves narrow gradually to their base, making them almost without a stalk.[2] Standley, however, describes the leaves as being stalked, with densely white woolly matting on the undersurface, and covered in weak hairs on the upper surface.[3] The flowers, too, are covered in a dense white woolly matting, and the inflorescence is a dense sessile head. The calyx lobes are triangular.[3] The stamens are inserted at the mouth of the corolla tube, and both the ovary and stigma are 5-merous.[2] Its type specimen, k000172688 was collected in 1827 by William John Burchell. [5] References
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