What are Ercilla and Hoodia?
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Ercilla (plant) Ercilla is a genus of plants in the Phytolaccaceae family containing two species, "Ercilla spicata" and "Ercila syncarpellata".
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Hoodia Hoodia (known locally as "ghaap" or "bobbejaanghaap") is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, under the subfamily Asclepiadoideae, native to Southern Africa.
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Vella (plant) Vella is a genus of plants in the family Brassicaceae, under which there are no fewer than six species. Species are many branched, and have hairy, sessile, entire leaves that are narrower in width at their bases, widening out to form ovals. Fruits are stiff follicles. "Vella" is endemic to that area of land encompassing Algeria, Morocco, and Spain.
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Eriogonum plumatella Eriogonum plumatella is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name yucca buckwheat. It is native to the desert southwest of the United States.
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Eryngium giganteum Eryngium giganteum, with the common name Miss Willmott's ghost, is a species of flowering plant in the Apiaceae family.
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Rhinella acrolopha Rhinella acrolopha (common name: Cerro Mali beaked toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in the Serranía del Darién in eastern Panama (including the Darién National Park) and in the immediately adjacent northwestern Colombia in the Los Katíos National Park.
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Ersilia stancyki Ersilia stancyki is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. This species is one of two known species to exist within the genus, "Ersilia".
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Eriocaulon scariosum Eriocaulon scariosum, commonly named common, rough or pale pipewort, is a species of tufted grass-like herbaceous plants, constituting part of the plant family Eriocaulaceae.
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Eriastrum hooveri Eriastrum hooveri is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Hoover's woollystar. It is endemic to the South Coast Ranges of California from San Benito to Los Angeles Counties, where it grows in grassy open habitat. It is an annual herb producing a wiry, usually woolly stem up to about 15 centimeters tall. The leaves are linear and threadlike, less than three centimeters long, and sometimes divided into two thready lobes. The inflorescence is a woolly cluster of narrow, leaflike bracts laced with webby fibers. The flowers are white and just a few millimeters in length.
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Eronia Eronia, commonly called vagrants, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae found mainly in Africa. For other butterflies called "vagrants" see genus "Nepheronia".
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Euryzonella Euryzonella is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Ghesquière in 1942, and contains the species E. latisfascia. It is found in India.
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Chinchilla (disambiguation) Chinchilla is a fur-bearing mountain rodent native to South America.
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Erna (moth) Erna is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
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Eopharingia Eopharingia is an excavata grouping.
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Clitoral hood In female human anatomy, the clitoral hood (also called preputium clitoridis and clitoral prepuce) is a fold of skin that surrounds and protects the glans of the clitoris; it also covers the external shaft of the clitoris, develops as part of the labia minora and is homologous with the foreskin (equally called "prepuce") in male genitals.
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Hood ancylid Ferrissia mcneili, common name the hood ancylid, is a species of small freshwater snail or limpet, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
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Zygophyllaceae Zygophyllaceae ( ) is a family of flowering plants that contain the bean-caper and caltrop. The family includes around 285 species in 22 genera.
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Erythroxylum Erythroxylum ("Erythroxylon") is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Erythroxylaceae. Many of the approximately 200 species contain the drug cocaine; "Erythroxylum coca", a native of South America, is the main commercial source of cocaine and of the mild stimulant coca tea. Another species, "Erythroxylum vacciniifolium" (also known as Catuaba) is used as an aphrodisiac in Brazilian drinks and herbal medicine.
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Rhizanthella Rhizanthella, commonly known as underground orchids, is a genus of three species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic in Australia. All are leafless, living underground in symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi. The inflorescence is a head of flowers held at, or just above the ground but mostly covered by soil or leaf litter and little is known about the mechanism of pollination.
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Difundella Difundella is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1914. It contains the species Difundella corynophora, described by the same author, found in Panama.
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Erysiptila Erysiptila is a genus of insects in the Depressariidae family. It contains only one species, Erysiptila clevelandi, which is found in Panama and Costa Rica.
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Terminalia eriostachya Terminalia eriostachya, the black mastic, is a species of flowering tree in the leadwood family, Combretaceae. It is endemic to Cuba and the Cayman Islands. It is threatened by habitat loss.