1. Hibiscus (Local name: Gumamela) http://www.healthline.

com/health/all-you-need-to-know-hibiscus

Description: Hibicus has large, funnel-shaped flowers that range in colour between white, yellow, orange,
pink, mauve and purple. The flowers measure between two to five inches across. The foliage is dark
green when fully developed in the summer. In temperate regions, leaves start growing from late spring.
Hibiscus shrubs can grow to over 10 feet.

Identification: Hibiscus plants are known for their large, colorful flowers that make a decorative addition
to a home or garden.

Nomenclature: Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The genus is
quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm-temperate, subtropical and
tropical regions throughout the world.

Classification: Hibiscus is commonly known as rose mallow, in which it is observed as a flower part of
the whole plant.

2. Pinus (Local name: Pino) https://www.britannica.com/plant/pine

Nomenclature: Pine (genus Pinus), genus of about 120 species of evergreenconifers of the pine family
(Pinaceae), distributed throughout the world but native primarily to northern temperate regions.
Many botanists consider the genus Pinus to contain two subgenera: Haploxylon, or soft pines, which have
one fibrovascular bundle, and Diploxylon, or hard pines, which have two.
Many pines have both lumber trade names and several common names. Numerous trees commonly
called pines are not true pines but belong to other genera in the family Pinaceae or to other families of
conifers.

Identification: Pines are softwoods, but commercially they may be designated as soft pines or hard
pines. Soft pines, such as white, sugar, and pion pines, have relatively soft timber, needles in bundles of
five (less commonly, one to four), stalked cones with scales lacking prickles, and little resin. Their wood is
close-grained, with thin, nearly white sapwood; the sheaths of the leaf clusters are deciduous, and the
leaves contain a single fibrovascular bundle. Hard pines, such as Scotch, Corsican, and loblolly pines,
have relatively hard timber, needles in bundles of two or three (rarely, five to eight), cone scales with
prickles, and large amounts of resin. Their wood is coarse-grained and usually dark-coloured, with pale,
often thick sapwood; the sheaths of the leaf clusters are persistent, and the leaves have two fibrovascular
bundles.

Description: Young pine trees are usually conical, with whorls of horizontal branches. Older trees may
have round, flat, or spreading crowns. Most species have thick rough furrowed bark. Pines have two
types of branches, long shoots and short shoots, and three types of leaves, primordial, scale, and adult.
Seedling plants bear the lance-shaped spirally arranged primordial leaves. The triangular scale leaves,
also lance-shaped, are borne on the long shoots of older trees. Both long and short shoots develop in the
axils of the deciduous scale leaves. The needlelike photosynthetic adult leaves, with two or more resin
canals, are borne in fascicles (bundles) of two to five (rarely, up to eight or solitary) at the tip of each short
shoot; they remain on the tree 2 to 17 years.
Classification: Genus Pinus is any conifer that belongs to the family Pinaceae. They are commonly seen
as trees (or rarely Shrubs)

3. Nephrolepis (Local name: pako)

Description: It is any of several nonflowering vascular plants (particularly ferns) that possess true roots,
stems, and complex leaves and that reproduce by spores.

Nomenclature: They belong to the lower vascular plant division Pteridophyta.

Identification: They possess leaves usually with branching vein systems; the young leaves usually unroll
from a tight fiddlehead, or crozier. The number of fern species is about 9,000, but estimates have ranged
to as high as 15,000, the number varying because certain groups are as yet poorly studied and because
new species are still being found in unexplored tropical areas. The ferns constitute an ancient division of
vascular plants, some of them as old as the Carboniferous Period (beginning about 359 million years ago)
and perhaps older. Their type of life cycle, dependent upon spores for dispersal, long preceded the seed-
plant life cycle. Another informal name for the group, monilophytes, has gained currency in modern
botanical literature.

Classification: The Genus Nephrolepis consists of ferns, usually called as Macho Ferns

4. Selaginella (Local name: unknown) http://www.biologydiscussion.com/botany/pteridophyta/selaginella-

habitat-features-and-reproduction/46084

Description: Selaginella shows considerable variation in size, symmetry and morphology. Mostly they are
herbaceous perennials, however, a few are annuals (Selaginella pygmaea).

Identification: Majority are dorsiventral, prostrate and creeping (Fig. 7.45) on the surface (e.g.,
Selaginella kraussiana; S. pellidissima; S. chrysocaulis), some are radial and grow erect (e.g., S.
rupestris; S. viridangula; S. selaginoides) and few are scandent (e.g., 5. willdenovii; 5. adunca) and
climbers (5. alligans).

Nomenclature: Selaginella is the sole genus of vascular plants in the family Selaginellaceae, the
spikemosses or lesser clubmosses. This family is placed in the class Isoetopsida, distinguished from the
sister group Lycopodiopsida (the clubmosses) by having scale-leaves bearing a ligule and by having
spores of two types.

Classification: Moss
5. Fissidens

Description: Genus Fissidens consists of mosses that originated in Asia. They are slower and requires
much more nutrients and sunlight compared to other mosses.

Identification: They are said to have feather-like leaves, suitable for aquarium decorations.

Nomenclature: Fissidens is a genus of moss in family Fissidentaceae.

Classification: Moss

6. Spirogyra

Description: Named for their beautiful spiral chloroplasts, spirogyras are filamentous algae that consist of
thin unbranched chains of cylindrical cells. They can form masses that float near the surface of streams
and ponds, buoyed by oxygen bubbles released during photosynthesis. They are commonly used in
laboratory demonstrations.

Identification: As their name says, they contain spiraling chloroplasts, which makes up their entire
structure. They are filamentous and can be observed as strands of green spiraling structure.

Nomenclature: spirogyra (genus Spirogyra), any member of a genus of some 400 species of free-floating
green algae (division Chlorophyta) found in freshwater environments around the world.

Classification: Algae

7. Anabaena

Description: They are one of four genera of cyanobacteria that produce neurotoxins, which are
harmful to local wildlife, as well as farm animals and pets. Production of these neurotoxins is
assumed to be an input into its symbiotic relationships, protecting the plant from grazing pressure.

Identification: They are an example of filamentous cyanobacteria that exist as plankton

Nomenclature: Anabaena is a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria that exist as plankton

Classification: Cyanobacteria