Sabicea brasiliensis

Wernham 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]

• Sabicea brasiliensis images and occurrence data from GBIF

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