“…These species are common plants, part of the typical landscape of the Los Tuxtlas region, including shade tolerant species (mature forest) and pioneer species (secondary growth) (IBARRA-731 Structure and histology of extrafloral… RODRÍGUEZ-MORALES, D. et al MANRÍQUEZ et al, 1997). There are several studies related to EFNs for Euphorbiaceae (DAVE AND PATEL, 1975;MASCHWITZ, 1991;LINSENMAIER, 1995, FREITAS et al, 2001;DÍAZ-CASTELAZO et al, 2005, COUTHINO et al, 2010, as well as Malvaceae (MACHADO et al, 2008;2009). However, for Costaceae (SCHEMSKE, 1982) and Salicaceae (THADEO et al, 2008) the information is very scarce.…”