Complex sentence: It is prepared by steeping dried leaves of yerba mate ("Ilex paraguariensis ", known in Portuguese as"erva-mate") in hot water and is served with a metal straw from a shared hollow calabash gourd.
Split into simpler sentences: It is prepared by steeping dried leaves of yerba mate ("Ilex paraguariensis ", known in Portuguese as"erva-mate") in hot water. Mate is served with a metal straw from a shared hollow calabash gourd.