This is a list of plant

Plant

Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

s found in the wild in Atlantic Forest vegetation

Vegetation

Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of a region; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. It is broader...

 of Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. Additions are currently being made to this list.

See also:

• List of plants of Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil
• List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil
• List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil
• List of plants of Pantanal vegetation of Brazil
• Official list of endangered flora of Brazil
  Official list of endangered flora of Brazil
  This is the official list of endangered flora of Brazil. It is published in Portaria 37-N de 3 de abril de 1992 by IBAMA.- Categories :...
  
  

Acanthaceae

Acanthaceae

The family Acanthaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species....

• Mendoncia
  Mendoncia
  Mendoncia is a genus of climbing plants in the family Acanthaceae.Species include:* Mendocia lindavii* Mendoncia mollis* Mendoncia puberula* Mendoncia velloziana...
  
  velloziana
  Mendoncia velloziana
  Mendoncia velloziana is a plant native to Atlantic Coast restingas vegetation which is an ecosystem of Atlantic Forest biome. In addition, this plant grows either in Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...
  
  Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Mendoncia puberula
  Mendoncia puberula
  Mendoncia puberula is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae .It is a climber with opposite, entire ovate leaves somewhat hairy abaxially, which renders the species its epithet....
  
  Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Aphelandra
  Aphelandra
  Aphelandra is a genus of about 170 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.They are evergreen shrubs growing to 1-2 m tall, with opposite, simple leaves 5-30 cm long, often with white veins...
  
  squarrosa
  Aphelandra squarrosa
  Aphelandra squarrosa is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae, which is native to Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil. This plant is often used as a house plant. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-Plant Care:This plant likes lots of light, but...
  
  Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  
• Aphelandra stephanophysa
  Aphelandra stephanophysa
  Aphelandra stephanophysa is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae, which is native to Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...
  
  Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  
• Aphelandra rigida
  Aphelandra rigida
  Aphelandra rigida is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae, which is native to Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil.-External links:*...
  
  Glaz.
  Auguste François Marie Glaziou
  Auguste François Marie Glaziou was a French landscape designer and botanist who was born in Lannion, Brittany.As a student in Paris he earned a degree in civil engineering and took classes at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...
  
   et Mildbr.
• Justicia
  Justicia
  Justicia is a genus of flowering plants in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae. The roughly 420 species it contains are native to tropical to warm temperate regions of the Americas, with two species occurring north into cooler temperate regions...
  
  polita
  Justicia polita
  Justicia angustifolia is a plant native of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil.-References:* This plant is part of the list of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil...
  
  (Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  ) Profice
• Justicia clausseniana
  Justicia clausseniana
  Justicia clausseniana is a plant native of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil...
  
  (Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  ) Profice
• Justicia nervata
  Justicia nervata
  Justicia nervata is a plant native of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil...
  
  (Lindau
  Gustav Lindau
  Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...
  
  ) Profice

Amaranthaceae

Amaranthaceae

The flowering plant family Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, contains about 176 genera and 2,400 species.- Description :Most of these species are herbs or subshrubs; very few are trees or climbers. Some species are succulent....

• Pfaffia
  Pfaffia
  Pfaffia is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. This genus is sometimes placed in Chenopodiaceae family.-Selected species:*Pfaffia cinera*Pfaffia denutata*Pfaffia glomerata...
  
  pulverulenta (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) Kuntze
  Otto Kuntze
  Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...
  
  

Amaryllidaceae

Amaryllidaceae

Amaryllidoideae is the subfamily of flowering plants that takes its name from the genus Amaryllis. It is part of the family Amaryllidaceae, in order Asparagales...

• Hippeastrum
  Hippeastrum
  Hippeastrum is a genus of about 90 species and 600+ hybrids and cultivars of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas from Argentina north to Mexico and the Caribbean. Some species are grown for their large...
  
  calyptratum Herb.

Anacardiaceae

Anacardiaceae

Anacardiaceae are a family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes and in some cases producing urushiol, an irritant. Anacardiaceae include numerous genera with several of economic importance. Notable plants in this family include cashew , mango, poison ivy, sumac, smoke tree, and marula...

• Astronium
  Astronium
  Astronium is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae.-Selected species:*Astronium fraxinifolium - Goncalo alves*Astronium graveolens - Aroeira*Astronium lecointei...
  
  fraxinifolium
  Astronium fraxinifolium
  Astronium fraxinifolium is a timber tree, which is native to Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius...
  
  Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  
• Astronium graveolens
  Astronium graveolens
  Astronium graveolens is a species of flowering tree in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to Yucatán in Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Bolivia. Common names include Glassywood, Ronrón , and Aroeira...
  
  Jacq.
  Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
  Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
  
  
• Tapirira
  Tapirira
  Tapirira is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family Anacardiaceae.Selected species:*Tapirira benthanniana*Tapirira chimalapana*Tapirira guianensis*Tapirira marchandii*Tapirira mexicana*Tapirira obtusa...
  
  guianensis
  Tapirira guianensis
  Tapirira guianensis is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....
  
  Aubl.
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
  
  

Annonaceae

Annonaceae

Annonaceae, also called the custard apple familyis a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs or rarely lianas.With about 2300 to 2500 species and more than 130 genera,...

• Annona
  Annona
  Annona is a genus of flowering plants in the pawpaw/sugar apple family, Annonaceae. It is the second largest genus in the family after Guatteria, containing approximately 110 species of mostly neotropical and afrotropical trees and shrubs....
  
  cacans
  Annona cacans
  Annona coriacea is a fruit tree native to Atlantic Forest and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil and Paraguay...
  
  Warm.
• Duguetia
  Duguetia
  Duguetia is a genus of trees and shrubs in the plant family Annonaceae with approximately 90 species in central and South America, and four species in west Africa.- Species :*Duguetia aberrans Maas *Duguetia adiscandra Jans.-Jac....
  
  salicifolia R.E.Fr.
  Robert Elias Fries
  Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...
  
  
• Guatteria
  Guatteria
  Guatteria is a genus of plant in family Annonaceae. It contains the following species :* Guatteria anomala, R.E. Fries* Guatteria atabapensis, Aristeg.* Guatteria augusti, Diels...
  
  australis A. St. Hil.
• Guatteria dusenii R.E.Fr.
  Robert Elias Fries
  Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...
  
  
• Guetteria nigrescens Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Rollinia
  Rollinia
  Rollinia is a genus in the family Annonaceae. While it is widely recognised as a distinct genus a recent monograph advocates its inclusion in Annona, which also contains custard apples and soursops....
  
  laurifolia Schltdl.
  Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
  
  
• Rollinia sylvatica (A. St. Hil.) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Rollinia xylopiifolia
  Rollinia xylopiifolia
  Rollinia xylopiifolia is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  (A. St. Hil.) R.E.Fr.
  Robert Elias Fries
  Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...
  
  
• Xylopia
  Xylopia
  Xylopia is a genus of plant in family Annonaceae. This genus is solely composed of trees, distribution of which is pantropical . It contains the following species :* Xylopia africana, Oliv....
  
  brasiliensis
  Xylopia brasiliensis
  Xylopia brasiliensis is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....
  
  Spreng.

Apocynaceae

Apocynaceae

The Apocynaceae or dogbane family is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, and lianas.Many species are tall trees found in tropical rainforests, and most are from the tropics and subtropics, but some grow in tropical dry, xeric environments. There are also perennial herbs...

• Aspidosperma
  Aspidosperma
  Aspidosperma is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae.Species include:*Aspidosperma curranii*Aspidosperma cylindrocarpon*Aspidosperma darienense*Aspidosperma dasycarpon*Aspidosperma discolor...
  
  cylindrocarpon
  Aspidosperma cylindrocarpon
  Aspidosperma cylindrocarpon is a timber tree native from Brazil, which is typical in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation...
  
   Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Aspidosperma melanocalyx
  Aspidosperma melanocalyx
  Aspidosperma melanocalyx is a tree native to Brazil, which is typical of Atlantic Forest vegetation. It was first described by Johannes Müller Argoviensis in 1860....
  
  Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Aspidosperma parvifolium
  Aspidosperma parvifolium
  Aspidosperma parvifolium Aspidosperma parvifolium Aspidosperma parvifolium (syn. Aspidosperma argenteum Müll.Arg., Aspidosperma australe Müll.Arg., Aspidosperma pyricollum Müll.Arg., Aspidosperma olivaceum Müll.Arg., Aspidosperma vargasii A.DC., Aspidosperma ulei Markgr., Macaglia australis...
  
  A.DC.
• Forsteronia
  Forsteronia
  Forsteronia is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae.Species include:* Forsteronia pycnothyrsus, K. Schum. ex Woodson* Forsteronia portoricensis Woods, 1934...
  
  refracta Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Mandevilla
  Mandevilla
  Mandevilla is a genus of plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae, the Periwinkle family. It consists of about 100 species, mostly tropical and subtropical flowering vines....
  
  funiformis (Vell.) K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  
• Mandevilla pendula (Ule) Woodson
• Odontadenia lutea (Vell.) Markgr.
• Peschiera
  Apocynaceae
  The Apocynaceae or dogbane family is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, and lianas.Many species are tall trees found in tropical rainforests, and most are from the tropics and subtropics, but some grow in tropical dry, xeric environments. There are also perennial herbs...
  
  australis (Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  ) Miers
  John Miers (botanist)
  John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
  
  

Aquifoliaceae

• Ilex integerrima
  Ilex integerrima
  Ilex integerrima is a species of holly in the Aquifoliaceae family, native from Brazil and typically found in its Atlantic Forest vegetation. It is sometimes used as an adulterant for maté.-See also:...
  
  Reissek
• Ilex paraguariensis A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  
• Ilex taubertiana
  Ilex taubertiana
  Ilex taubertiana, "Taubert's holly," is a species of Ilex genus in the Aquifoliaceae family. It is native to Brazil, typically in Atlantic Forest vegetation. It is occasionally used to adulterate maté.-See also:...
  
  Loes.
  Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener
  Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener was a German botanist.Collection of specimens in Europe: Amrum Islands , Alps, Black Forest, Bavaria, Tyrol, Rugen. Herbarium 14 Aquifoliaceae & cult. Ilex spp.-Abbreviation:...
  
  
• Ilex theezans
  Ilex theezans
  Ilex theezans, also I. theæzans and I. theazans, is a species of the Ilex genus in the Aquifoliaceae family, native to Brazil and typically found amid its Atlantic Forest vegetation. It is sometimes used as an adulterant of maté and sometimes confused with the yerba maté Ilex theezans, also I....
  
  Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Ilex pubiflora
  Ilex pubiflora
  Ilex pubiflora is a species of Ilex genus in the Aquifoliaceae family. It is native to Brazil, typically in Atlantic Forest vegetation.-See also:*List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil...
  
  Reissek

Araceae

Araceae

Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe or leaf-like bract. Also known as the Arum family, members are often colloquially...

• Anthurium
  Anthurium
  Anthurium , is a large genus of about 600–800 species, belonging to the arum family . Anthurium can also be called "Flamingo Flower" or "Boy Flower", both referring to the structure of the spathe and spadix....
  
  galeottii K.Koch.
• Anthurium harrisii G.Don
  George Don
  George Don was a Scottish botanist.George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1797. His father, also named George Don, was Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802 and his mother was Caroline Clementina Stuart. George was the elder brother of David...
  
  
• Anthurium longifolium G.Don
  George Don
  George Don was a Scottish botanist.George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1797. His father, also named George Don, was Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802 and his mother was Caroline Clementina Stuart. George was the elder brother of David...
  
  
• Anthurium lhotzkyanum Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  
• Anthurium scandens (Aubl.
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
  
  ) Engl. subsp. scandens
• Anthurium solitarium Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  
• Anthurium theresiopolitanum Engl.
• Asterostigma
  Asterostigma
  Asterostigma is a genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family. It contains approximately 7 species of plants found in Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador. The leaves are pinnate and the plant is tuberous.-References:...
  
  luschnatianum Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  
• Philodendron
  Philodendron
  Philodendron is a large genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family, consisting of close to 900 or more species according to TROPICOS . Other sources quote different numbers of species. According to S.J. Mayo there are about 350-400 formally recognized species whereas according to Croat there...
  
  appendiculatum Nadruz et Mayo
  Mayo
  - Places :Ireland* County Mayo* Mayo * Mayo * Mayo * Mayo East * Mayo North...
  
  
• Philodendron altomacaense Nadruz et Mayo
  Mayo
  - Places :Ireland* County Mayo* Mayo * Mayo * Mayo * Mayo East * Mayo North...
  
  
• Philodendron edmundoi G.M.Barroso
• Philodendron eximium Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  
• Philodendron fragile Nadruz et Mayo
  Mayo
  - Places :Ireland* County Mayo* Mayo * Mayo * Mayo * Mayo East * Mayo North...
  
  
• Philodendron hatschbachii Nadruz et Mayo
  Mayo
  - Places :Ireland* County Mayo* Mayo * Mayo * Mayo * Mayo East * Mayo North...
  
  
• Philodendron roseopetiolatum Nadruz et Mayo
  Mayo
  - Places :Ireland* County Mayo* Mayo * Mayo * Mayo * Mayo East * Mayo North...
  
  
• Philodendron ochrostemon Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  
• Philodendron ornatum Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  
• Philodendron propinquum Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  
• Xanthosoma
  Xanthosoma
  Xanthosoma is a genus of about 50 species of tropical and sub-tropical arums in the flowering plant family, Araceae, all native to tropical America...
  
  sagittifolium
  Xanthosoma sagittifolium
  Xanthosoma sagittifolium, the arrowleaf elephant ear or arrowleaf elephant's ear, is a species of tropical flowering plant in the genus Xanthosoma, which produces an edible, starchy tuber.-Cuisine and reforestation:...
  
  (L.) Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  

Araliaceae

Araliaceae

Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family or Ivy family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants into 2 subfamilies...

• Didymopanax acuminatus Marchal
• Didymopanax anomalum Taub.
• Oreopanax
  Oreopanax
  Oreopanax is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Araliaceae, comprising between 80 and 150 species depending on source. They are native to the Americas, with a range extending from Mexico and the Antilles to Argentina and Brazil, with most species occurring above 500 m.a.s.l. Sinopanax was...
  
  capitatus (Jacq.
  Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
  Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
  
  ) Decne.
  Joseph Decaisne
  Joseph Decaisne was a French botanist and agronomist.Although he was born in Brussels, Belgium, he exercised his activity exclusively in Paris...
  
   et Planch.
  Jules Émile Planchon
  Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent...
  
  

Arecaceae

Arecaceae

Arecaceae or Palmae , are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates...

• Astrocaryum
  Astrocaryum
  Astrocaryum is a genus of about 36 to 40 species of palms native to Central and South America and Trinidad.-Description:Astrocaryum is a genus of spiny palms with pinnately compound leaves–rows of leaflets emerge on either side of the axis of the leaf in a feather-like or fern-like pattern. Some...
  
  aculeatissimum
  Astrocaryum aculeatissimum
  Astrocaryum aculeatissimum is a palm native to Atlantic Coast restingas vegetation, which is an ecosystem of Atlantic Forest biome in Brazil. This plant has a commercial value because it has useful fibers which may be used to make production of brooms...
  
  (Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  ) Burret
  Max Burret
  Karl Ewald Maximilian Burret, commonly known as Max Burret was a German botanist.Burret was born in Saffig near Andernach in the Prussian Rhine Province. He originally studied law at Lausanne and Munich at the instigation of his father...
  
  
• Attalea
  Attalea (genus)
  Attalea is a large genus of palms native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America. This pinnately leaved, non-spiny genus includes both small palms lacking an aboveground stem and large trees. The genus has a complicated taxonomic history, and has often been split into four or five...
  
  dubia (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) Burret
  Max Burret
  Karl Ewald Maximilian Burret, commonly known as Max Burret was a German botanist.Burret was born in Saffig near Andernach in the Prussian Rhine Province. He originally studied law at Lausanne and Munich at the instigation of his father...
  
  
• Euterpe
  Euterpe (genus)
  Euterpe is a genus of palm tree, containing eight species that are native to Central and South America, from Belize southward to Brazil, Peru and Argentina. These palms grow mainly in swamps and floodplains....
  
  edulis
  Euterpe edulis
  Euterpe edulis, commonly known as jucara, Juçara, Açaí-do-sul or Palmiteiro, is palm species in the genus Euterpe. It is now predominantly used for hearts of palm. It is closely related to the açaí palm , a species cultivated for its fruit and superior hearts of palm. The larvae of Caligo...
  
  Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Geonoma
  Geonoma
  Geonoma is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America.This palm genus is one of the largest in the Neotropics...
  
  pohliana Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Geonoma wittigiana Glaz. ex Drude
  Carl Georg Oscar Drude
  Carl Georg Oscar Drude was a German botanist.- References :...
  
  
• Lytocaryum
  Lytocaryum
  Lytocaryum is a monoecious genus of flowering plant in the palm family endemic to Brazil where two species are known. Palms once classified as Microcoelum are herein included; the genus is closely related to Syagrus, from which it is differentiated only by abundant tomentum, strongly versatile...
  
  insigne (Drude
  Carl Georg Oscar Drude
  Carl Georg Oscar Drude was a German botanist.- References :...
  
  ) Toledo
  Francisco Hernández de Toledo
  Francisco Hernández de Toledo was a naturalist and court physician to the King of Spain....
  
  

Asclepiadaceae

Asclepiadaceae

According to APG II, the Asclepiadaceae is a former plant family now treated as a subfamily in the Apocynaceae...

• Ditassa mucronata Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Gonioanthela hilariana (E.Fourn.
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier was a French botanist.He was particularly interested in ferns. He was a member of the Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.-Works:* Articles in Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France:...
  
  ) Malme
• Jobinia lindbergii E.Fourn.
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier was a French botanist.He was particularly interested in ferns. He was a member of the Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.-Works:* Articles in Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France:...
  
  
• Jobinia hatschbachii Fontella
  Fontella
  Fontella may refer to:*Fontella Bass, American soul singer*Fontellas, municipality in Navarre, Spain...
  
  et E.A.Schwarz
• Jobinia paranaensis Fontella
  Fontella
  Fontella may refer to:*Fontella Bass, American soul singer*Fontellas, municipality in Navarre, Spain...
  
  et C.Valente
• Oxypetalum insigne var. glaziovii (E.Fourn.
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier was a French botanist.He was particularly interested in ferns. He was a member of the Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.-Works:* Articles in Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France:...
  
  ) Fontella
  Fontella
  Fontella may refer to:*Fontella Bass, American soul singer*Fontellas, municipality in Navarre, Spain...
  
  et E. A.Schwarz
• Oxypetalum lutescens E.Fourn.
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier was a French botanist.He was particularly interested in ferns. He was a member of the Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.-Works:* Articles in Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France:...
  
  
• Oxypetalum pachuglossum Decne.
  Joseph Decaisne
  Joseph Decaisne was a French botanist and agronomist.Although he was born in Brussels, Belgium, he exercised his activity exclusively in Paris...
  
  
• Macroditassa lagoensis (E.Fourn.
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier was a French botanist.He was particularly interested in ferns. He was a member of the Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.-Works:* Articles in Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France:...
  
  ) Malme
• Macroditassa laxa (Malme) Fontella
  Fontella
  Fontella may refer to:*Fontella Bass, American soul singer*Fontellas, municipality in Navarre, Spain...
  
  et de Lamare
• Matelea
  Matelea
  Matelea is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. It contains about 200 species, which are commonly known as milkvines.-Selected species:-Formerly placed here:...
  
  glaziovii (E.Fourn.
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier was a French botanist.He was particularly interested in ferns. He was a member of the Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.-Works:* Articles in Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France:...
  
  ) Morillo
  Morillo
  Morillo is a common Spanish surname and might refer to:*Erick Morillo , Colombian-American DJ*Juan Morillo , Venezuelan sprinter*Juan Morillo , Dominican Republic baseball pitcher...
  
  

Asteraceae

Asteraceae

The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

• Baccharis
  Baccharis
  Baccharis is a genus of perennials and shrubs in the aster family . They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true brooms. They are not at all related to these however, but belong to an entirely...
  
  brachylaenoides DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
   var. brachylaenoides
• Baccharis intermixta Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Baccharis microdonta DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Baccharis semiserrata DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
   var. semiserrata
• Baccharis trimera (Less.
  Christian Friedrich Lessing
  Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
  
  ) DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Dasyphyllum
  Dasyphyllum
  Dasyphyllum is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family.It contains the following species:* Dasyphyllum argenteum* Dasyphyllum diacanthoides* Dasyphyllum excelsum* Dasyphyllum lehmannii-External links:*...
  
  brasiliense (Spreng.) Cabrera
• Dasyphyllum spinescens (Less.
  Christian Friedrich Lessing
  Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
  
  ) Cabrera
• Dasyphyllum tomentosum var. multiflorum (Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  ) Cabrera
• Eupatorium
  Eupatorium
  Eupatorium is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, containing from 36 to 60 species depending on the classification system. Most are herbaceous perennial plants growing to 0.5–3 m tall. A few are shrubs. The genus is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere....
  
  adamantium Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Eupatorium pyrifolium DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Eupatorium rufescens P.W.Lund. ex DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Eupatorium vauthierianum DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Gochnatia
  Gochnatia
  Gochnatia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is named for botanist Frédéric Karl Gochnat. The genus contains approximately 68 species of shrubs and subshrubs, nearly all of which are native to the American tropics...
  
  rotundifolia Less.
  Christian Friedrich Lessing
  Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
  
  
• Mikania
  Mikania
  Mikania is a genus of about 450 species in the family of Asteraceae.The name honors the Czech botanist Johann Christian Mikan. Members of the genus are stem twiners and lianas and are common in the neotropical flora. Mikania originates from South America...
  
  acuminata DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Mikania aff. myriantha DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Mikania argyreiae DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Mikania buddleiaefolia DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Mikania cabrerae G.M.Barroso
• Mikania chlorolepis Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  
• Mikania conferta Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Mikania glomerata Spreng.
• Mikania hirsutissima DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Mikania lanuginosa DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Mikania lindbergii Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
   var. lindbergii
• Mikania lindbergii var. collina Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  
• Mikania microdonta DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Mikania rufescens Sch. Bip. ex Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  
• Mikania trinervis Hook.
  William Jackson Hooker
  Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
  
   et Arn.
  George Arnott Walker-Arnott
  George Arnott Walker-Arnott was a Scottish botanist.He studied law in Edinburgh though later became a botanist, holding the position of Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in...
  
  
• Mikania vitifolia DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Mutisia
  Mutisia
  Mutisia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family.- Selected species :* Mutisia acerosa Poepp. ex Less. * Mutisia acuminata Ruiz & Pav. * Mutisia alata Hieron. * Mutisia andersonii Sodiro ex Hieron....
  
  speciosa Aiton
  William Aiton
  William Aiton was a Scottish botanist.Aiton was born near Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden...
  
   ex. Hook.
  William Jackson Hooker
  Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
  
  
• Piptocarpha
  Piptocarpha
  Piptocarpha is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family....
  
  macropoda (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  
• Piptocarpha oblonga (Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  ) Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  
• Piptocarpha quadrangularis (Vell.) Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  
• Piptocarpha reitziana Cabrera
• Senecio
  Senecio
  Senecio is a genus of the daisy family that includes ragworts and groundsels. The flower heads are normally rayed, completely yellow, and the heads are borne in branched clusters...
  
  brasiliensis
  Senecio brasiliensis
  Senecio brasiliensis or by its common name flor-das-almas, a perennial species of Senecio genus and the family Asteraceae grows as a native in the fields and meadows of central South America.-Description:S...
  
  (Spreng.) Less.
  Christian Friedrich Lessing
  Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
  
  
• Senecio desiderabilis Vell.
• Senecio glaziovii Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  
• Senecio organensis Casar.
• Symphyopappus
  Symphyopappus
  Symphyopappus is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae. They are native to Brazil and Peru.Species include:*Symphyopappus apurimacensis*Symphyopappus decemflorus*Symphyopappus itatiayensis...
  
  itatiayensis R.M.King et H.Rob.
  Harold E. Robinson
  Harold Ernest Robinson is an eminent botanist and an entomologist.-Career:Dr. Robinson's systematic knowledge encompasses many groups of plants and even some insects. But his real specialty is the sunflower family and the bryophytes...
  
  
• Vanillosmopsis
  Vanillosmopsis
  Vanillosmopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family....
  
  erythropappa (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Sch.Bip.
• Vernonia
  Vernonia
  Vernonia is a genus of about 1000 species of forbs and shrubs in the family Asteraceae. Some species are known as Ironweed. Some species are edible and of economic value. They are known for having intense purple flowers. The genus is named for English botanist William Vernon. There are numerous...
  
  aff. puberula Less.
  Christian Friedrich Lessing
  Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
  
  
• Vernonia diffusa Less.
  Christian Friedrich Lessing
  Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
  
  
• Vernonia discolor (Spreng.) Less.
  Christian Friedrich Lessing
  Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
  
  
• Vernonia macahensis Glaz. ex G.M.Barroso
• Vernonia macrophylla Less.
  Christian Friedrich Lessing
  Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
  
  
• Vernonia petiolaris DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Vernonia puberula Less.
  Christian Friedrich Lessing
  Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
  
  
• Vernonia stellata (Spreng.) S.F.Blake
• Wunderlichia
  Wunderlichia
  Wunderlichia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family....
  
  insignis Baill.
  Henri Ernest Baillon
  Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
  
  

Balanophoraceae

Balanophoraceae

Balanophoraceae is a subtropical to tropical family of obligate parasitic flowering plants, notable for their unusual development and obscure affinities. The family consist of 17 genera and approximately 50 species...

• Langsdorffia hipogaea Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Scybalium glaziovii Eichler
  August W. Eichler
  August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...
  
  

Basellaceae

Basellaceae

Basellaceae is a family of flowering plants, in the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots, according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group...

• Boussingaultia tucumanensis var. brasiliensis Hauman
  Lucien Leon Hauman
  Lucien Leon Hauman-Merck was a botanist and an author who studied and collected plants in Eastern Africa.-External links:*Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Asociación Latinoamericana de Fitotecnia, ....
  
  

Begoniaceae

Begoniaceae

Begoniaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 1400 species occurring in the subtropics and tropics of both the New World and Old World. All but one of the species are in the genus Begonia. The only other genus in the family, Hillebrandia, is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and has a single...

• Begonia
  Begonia
  Begonia is a genus in the flowering plant family Begoniaceae and is a perennial. The only other members of the family Begoniaceae are Hillebrandia, a genus with a single species in the Hawaiian Islands, and the genus Symbegonia which more recently was included in Begonia...
  
  angularis Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...
  
   var. angularis
• Begonia arborescens Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...
  
  
• Begonia coccinea
  Begonia coccinea
  Begonia coccinea is a species of plant in the Begoniaceae family....
  
  Ruiz
  Hipólito Ruiz López
  Hipólito Ruiz López , or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
  
   ex Klotzsch
  Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
  Johann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...
  
  
• Begonia collaris Brade
  Alexander Curt Brade
  Alexander Curt Brade was a German botanist who specialized in the study of the orchids and ferns of Brazil. Brade also realized an important and early series of collections of the flora of Costa Rica between 1908 and 1910 with his brother Alfred, who lived in San Jose and owned a horticultural...
  
  
• Begonia cucullata Willd. var. cucullata
• Begonia dentatiloba A.DC.
• Begonia digitata Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...
  
  
• Begonia fischeri Schrank
  Franz Paula von Schrank
  Franz von Paula Schrank was a German botanist and entomologist.Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.Shrank was the first author to use the genus name Triops...
  
  
• Begonia fruticosa A.DC.
• Begonia isoptera Dryand.
  Jonas Carlsson Dryander
  Jonas Carlsson Dryander was a Swedish botanist.Dryander was born in Gothenburg. He was a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University. He arrived in London on 10 July 1777...
  
  
• Begonia herbacea Vell.
• Begonia hispida Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
   ex A.DC. var. hispida
• Begonia hugelii Hort.Berol. ex A.DC.
• Begonia integerrima Spreng. var. integerrima
• Begonia lobata Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  
• Begonia semidigitata Brade
  Alexander Curt Brade
  Alexander Curt Brade was a German botanist who specialized in the study of the orchids and ferns of Brazil. Brade also realized an important and early series of collections of the flora of Costa Rica between 1908 and 1910 with his brother Alfred, who lived in San Jose and owned a horticultural...
  
  
• Begonia paleata A.DC.
• Begonia pulchella Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...
  
  
• Begonia solananthera A.DC.
• Begonia valdensium A.DC. var. valdensium

Bignoniaceae

Bignoniaceae

The Bignoniaceae, or Trumpet Creeper Family, is a family of flowering plants comprising about 650-750 species in 116-120 genera. Members of the family are mostly trees and lianas , shrubs and more rarely herbaceous plants. As climber plants, they are twine climbers or tendril climbers, and rarely...

• Anemopaegma
  Anemopaegma
  Anemopaegma chamberlaynii An evergreen vigorous climber from tropical South America, with leaves of two leaflets to 16 cm long and sometime a terminal tendril; flower funnel-form 6–8 cm long, in pendant clusters of yellow tubular flowers, the tube constricted near base. It prefers a...
  
  chamberlaynii (Sims) Bureau
  Louis Édouard Bureau
  Louis Édouard Bureau was a French physician and botanist.Bureau began his medical studies in Nantes in 1848, where he held the post of director of the Muséum de Nantes . He completed his medical degree in Paris in 1852...
  
   & K.Schum.
• Callichlamys latifolia (Rich.
  Louis Claude Richard
  Louis Claude Marie Richard was a French botanist.Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies...
  
  ) K. Schum.
• Fridericia speciosa Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Haplolophium bracteatum Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
  
• Lundia corymbifera (Vahl
  Martin Vahl (botanist)
  Martin Henrichsen Vahl was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI , Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III , Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II...
  
  ) Sandwith
• Schlegelia parviflora (Oerst.
  Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)
  Anders Sandøe Ørsted, also written as Anders Sandoe Oersted or Anders Sandö Örsted was a Danish botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist. He was nephew of the brothers physicist H.C...
  
  ) Monach.
• Stizophyllum perforatum (Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
  ) Miers
  John Miers (botanist)
  John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
  
  
• Tabebuia
  Tabebuia
  Tabebuia is a neotropical genus of about 100 species in the tribe Tecomeae of the family Bignoniaceae. The species range from northern Mexico and southern Florida south to northern Argentina, including the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Cuba...
  
  chrysotricha
  Tabebuia chrysotricha
  Tabebuia chrysotricha , commonly known as Golden Trumpet Tree, is an evergreen tree from Brazil. It is very similar to and often confused with Tabebuia ochracea. In Portuguese it is called "Ipê amarelo" and is considered the national tree of Brazil.-Growth:T...
  
  (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   ex A.DC.) Standl.
  Paul Carpenter Standley
  Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
  
  
• Tabebuia heptaphylla (Vell.) Toledo
  Francisco Hernández de Toledo
  Francisco Hernández de Toledo was a naturalist and court physician to the King of Spain....
  
  
• Urbanolophium glaziovii (Bureau
  Louis Édouard Bureau
  Louis Édouard Bureau was a French physician and botanist.Bureau began his medical studies in Nantes in 1848, where he held the post of director of the Muséum de Nantes . He completed his medical degree in Paris in 1852...
  
   & K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  ) Melch.
  Hans Melchior
  Hans Melchior was a German botanist.He studied botany at Berlin University, became assistant to G...
  
  

Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae is a family of flowering plants or Angiospermae included within Malvales order. As is true for any botanical name, circumscription and status of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view...

• Bombacopsis
  Bombacopsis
  Bombacopsis is a medium-sized to large tree, that can reach 3 to in diameter, and at times reaches a height of . The trunk and larger branches often have sharp prickles. Its common range is in the forests of western Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Panama....
  
  glabra (Pasq.) A.Robyns
• Chorisia speciosa A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
   – Floss silk tree
  Floss silk tree
  The silk floss tree , is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America. It has a host of local common names, such as palo borracho . It belongs to the same family as the baobab and the kapok. Another tree of the Ceiba genus, C...
  
  
• Eriotheca
  Eriotheca
  Eriotheca is a genus of flowering plant in the mallow family .Species include:* Eriotheca candolleana* Eriotheca gracilipes* Eriotheca pubescens* Eriotheca peruviana...
  
  candolleana (K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  ) A.Robyns
• Spirotheca rivieri (Decne.
  Joseph Decaisne
  Joseph Decaisne was a French botanist and agronomist.Although he was born in Brussels, Belgium, he exercised his activity exclusively in Paris...
  
  ) Ulbrich

Boraginaceae

Boraginaceae

Boraginaceae, the Borage or Forget-me-not family, include a variety of shrubs, trees, and herbs, totaling about 2,000 species in 146 genera found worldwide.A number of familiar plants belong to this family....

• Cordia
  Cordia
  Cordia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 300 species of shrubs and trees, which are found worldwide mostly in warmer regions. Many of the species are commonly called manjack, while bocote may refer to several Central American species in Spanish...
  
  ecalyculata Vell.
• Cordia ochnacea DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Cordia sellowiana Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
  
• Cordia trichoclada DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Tournefortia
  Tournefortia
  Tournefortia, commonly known as Soldierbush, is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae.It was first published under the name Pittonia by Charles Plumier in 1703, in honour of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort...
  
  breviflora DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  

Bromeliaceae

Bromeliaceae

Bromeliaceae is a family of monocot flowering plants of around 3,170 species native mainly to the tropical Americas, with a few species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, Pitcairnia feliciana...

• Aechmea
  Aechmea
  Aechmea is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The name comes from the Greek “aichme” . Aechmea has 8 subgenera and 255 species distributed from Mexico through South America...
  
  blanchetiana
  Aechmea blanchetiana
  Aechmea blanchetiana is a bromeliad typical of Atlantic Coast restingas vegetation which is an ecosystem of Atlantic Forest biome. This plant grows in Brazil, specially in Bahia, and it is often used as an ornamental plant.-External links:* *...
  
  (Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  ) L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  
• Aechmea bromeliifolia
  Aechmea bromeliifolia
  Aechmea bromeliifolia is a bromeliad typical to Atlantic Coast restingas vegetation which is an ecosystem of Atlantic Forest biome. This plant grows in Bolivia and Brazil, specially in following states Bahia, Espírito Santo, and Rio de Janeiro.-External links: - References :* Retrieved 11 October...
  
  (Rudge
  Edward Rudge
  -Life:Born on 27 June 1763, he was son of Edward Rudge, a merchant and alderman of Salisbury, who possessed a large portion of the abbey estate at Evesham....
  
  ) Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  
• Aechmea caesia
  Aechmea caesia
  Aechmea caesia is a species of the genus Aechmea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009* Retrieved 11 October 2009...
  
  E.Morren
  Charles Jacques Édouard Morren
  Charles Jacques Édouard Morren , was a Belgian botanist, professor of botany and director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège from 1857-1886. His special field of study was the Bromeliaceae on which family he was the recognised authority...
  
   ex Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  
• Aechmea pineliana
  Aechmea pineliana
  Aechmea pineliana is a bromeliad typical of Atlantic Forest vegetation in Brazil, specially in following states: Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, and it is often used as an ornamental plant.-External...
  
  (Brongn.ex Planch.) Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
   var. pineliana
• Ananas
  Ananas
  The genus Ananas belongs to the Bromeliad family . It is best known for the species Ananas comosus, the pineapple.This genus originated in Mesoamerica and was brought to the Caribbean Islands by the Carib natives...
  
  ananassoides
  Ananas ananassoides
  Ananas ananassoides is a species of the genus Ananas. This species is native to Bolivia, Brazil and Costa Rica.-Cultivars:* xAnagelia 'Norm Kretschmann'* xAnamea 'Pink Scorpion'-References:* Retrieved 21 October 2009...
  
  (Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  ) L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  
• Billbergia
  Billbergia
  Billbergia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus is named for the Swedish botanist, zoologist, and anatomist Gustaf Johan Billberg. This genus is divided into two subgenera: Billbergia and Helicodea...
  
  amoena
  Billbergia amoena
  Billbergia amoena is a species of the genus Billbergia. This species is native to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Billbergia 'Amoeno-Sanderiana'* Billbergia 'Cappei'* Billbergia 'Collevii'* Billbergia 'Curly Top'* Billbergia 'De Nada'...
  
  var. rubra M.B.Foster
• Billbergia pyramidalis
  Billbergia pyramidalis
  Billbergia pyramidalis is a species in the Bromeliaceae family....
  
  var. concolor L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  
• Billbergia pyramidalis
  Billbergia pyramidalis
  Billbergia pyramidalis is a species in the Bromeliaceae family....
  
  (Sims) var. pyramidalis Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  
• Billbergia sanderiana
  Billbergia sanderiana
  Billbergia sanderiana is a species of the genus Billbergia. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Billbergia 'Alaka'i'* Billbergia 'Amoeno-Sanderiana'* Billbergia 'Audrey'* Billbergia 'Bernard Stonor'...
  
  E.Morren
  Charles Jacques Édouard Morren
  Charles Jacques Édouard Morren , was a Belgian botanist, professor of botany and director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège from 1857-1886. His special field of study was the Bromeliaceae on which family he was the recognised authority...
  
  
• Canistrum
  Canistrum
  Canistrum is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus names is from the Greek “kanistron” . This genus is endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. There are currently 13 species divided into two subgenra: Canistrum and Cucullatanthus Leme.-Species:*...
  
  lindenii (Regel
  Eduard August von Regel
  Eduard August von Regel was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Neoregelia
  Neoregelia
  Neoregelia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus name is for Eduard August von Regel, director of St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens in Russia ....
  
  carolinae
  Neoregelia carolinae
  Neoregelia carolinae is a species of the genus Neoregelia. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009* Retrieved 11 October 2009...
  
  (Beer
  Beer
  Beer is the world's most widely consumed andprobably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat...
  
  ) L.B.Sm.
• Neoregelia farinosa
  Neoregelia farinosa
  Neoregelia farinosa is a species of the genus Neoregelia. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Neoregelia 'Angela Espinosa'* Neoregelia 'Electric Red'* Neoregelia 'ExEx Three'* Neoregelia 'Far Superior'...
  
  (Ule) L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  
• Neoregelia lymaniana
  Neoregelia lymaniana
  Neoregelia lymaniana is a species of the genus Neoregelia. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  R.Braga & Sucre
  Sucre
  Sucre, also known historically as Charcas, La Plata and Chuquisaca is the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the department of Chuquisaca. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of 2750m...
  
  
• Nidularium
  Nidularium
  Nidularium is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. Named to describe the nestling characteristic of the inflorescence , they are endemic to Brazil. Commonly confused with Neoregelia which they resemble, this plant group was first described in 1854.-Species:*...
  
  innocentii
  Nidularium innocentii
  Nidularium innocentii is a species of the genus Nidularium. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Nidularium 'Alwyn Gentry'* Nidularium 'Blue Lines'* Nidularium 'Chantrieri'* Nidularium 'Digeneum'...
  
  Lem.
  Charles Antoine Lemaire
  Charles Antoine Lemaire , was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae....
  
   var. innocentii
• Nidularium microps E.Morren
  Charles Jacques Édouard Morren
  Charles Jacques Édouard Morren , was a Belgian botanist, professor of botany and director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège from 1857-1886. His special field of study was the Bromeliaceae on which family he was the recognised authority...
  
   ex Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
   var. microps
• Nidularium procerum
  Nidularium procerum
  Nidularium procerum is a species of the genus Nidularium. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Nidularium 'Odd Ball'* Nidularium 'Stripes'* xNidbergia 'Chas Hodgson'* xNiduregelia 'Joker'-References:...
  
  Lindm.
  Carl Axel Magnus Lindman
  Carl Axel Magnus Lindman 6 April 1856 in Halmstad - 21 June 1928, was a Swedish botanist and botanical artist, the son of Carl Christian Lindman and Sophie Fredrique Löhr. He is best known for his work "Bilder ur Nordens Flora" published 1901-1905....
  
  
• Nidularium scheremetiewii
  Nidularium scheremetiewii
  Nidularium scheremetiewii is a species of the genus Nidularium. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  Regel
  Eduard August von Regel
  Eduard August von Regel was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg...
  
  
• Pitcairnia
  Pitcairnia
  Pitcairnia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae. It was named for Dr. William Pitcairn, English physician and gardener . The genus Pitcairnia ranks as the second most prolific of the bromeliad family...
  
  carinata
  Pitcairnia carinata
  Pitcairnia carinata is a species of the genus Pitcairnia. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Pitcairnia flammea
  Pitcairnia flammea
  Pitcairnia flammea is a species of the genus Pitcairnia. This species is native to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
   var. flammea
• Quesnelia
  Quesnelia
  Quesnelia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus is named For M. Quesnel, French consul to French Guiana. Endemic to eastern Brazil, this genus contains 20 species...
  
  lateralis
  Quesnelia lateralis
  Quesnelia lateralis is a species of the genus Quesnelia. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  Wawra
  Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee
  Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer....
  
  
• Quesnelia liboniana
  Quesnelia liboniana
  Quesnelia liboniana is a species of the genus Quesnelia. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:* xBillnelia 'Georgianna Morris'* xBillnelia 'Perringiana'* xBillnelia 'Rancougnei'* xBillnelia 'Sebastian Laruelle'...
  
  (De Jonghe) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Tillandsia
  Tillandsia
  Tillandsia is a genus of around 540 species in the Bromeliad family , found in the forests, mountains, and deserts, of Central and South America, and Mexico and the southern United States in North America....
  
  aeris-incola (Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Tillandsia geminiflora
  Tillandsia geminiflora
  Tillandsia geminiflora is a species of the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Tillandsia 'Bushfire'* Tillandsia 'J. R.'* Tillandsia 'Mystic Twins'* Tillandsia 'Pink Sugar'...
  
  Brongn.
  Adolphe Theodore Brongniart
  Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of...
  
   var. geminiflora
• Tillandsia spiculosa Griseb.
  August Grisebach
  August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...
  
   var. spiculiosa
• Tillandsia stricta
  Tillandsia stricta
  Tillandsia stricta is a species of the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Brazil and Venezuela.-Cultivars:* Tillandsia 'Azure Flame'* Tillandsia 'Bingo'* Tillandsia 'Bushfire'* Tillandsia 'Coconut Ice'...
  
  Sol.
  Daniel Solander
  Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.-Biography:...
  
   ex Sims. var. stricta
• Tillandsia tenuifolia
  Tillandsia tenuifolia
  Tillandsia tenuifolia is a species of the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela.-Cultivars:* Tillandsia 'Bingo'* Tillandsia 'Bonsall Beauty'* Tillandsia 'Coconut Ice'* Tillandsia 'Emerald Forest'...
  
  L. var. tenuifolia
• Vriesea bituminosa
  Vriesea bituminosa
  Vriesea bituminosa is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is native to Brazil and Venezuela.-Cultivars:* Vriesea 'Exotica Jungle Tips'* Vriesea 'Highway Beauty'-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009* retrieved 3 November 2009...
  
  Wawra
  Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee
  Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer....
  
   var. bituminosa
• Vriesea carinata
  Vriesea carinata
  Vriesea carinata is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Vriesea 'Brachystachys-Splendens'* Vriesea 'Cardinalis'* Vriesea 'Christiane'* Vriesea 'Crimson Glow'* Vriesea 'Karamea Tipsy'...
  
  Wawra
  Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee
  Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer....
  
  
• Vriesea haematina L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  
• Vriesea heterostachys
  Vriesea heterostachys
  Vriesea heterostachys is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Vriesea 'Burgundy Bubbles'* Vriesea 'Highlights'* Vriesea 'Little Dumplin* Vriesea 'One Year'* Vriesea 'Sweetheart'...
  
  (Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  ) L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  
• Vriesea hieroglyphica
  Vriesea hieroglyphica
  Vriesea hieroglyphica is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Vriesea 'After Glow'* Vriesea 'El Supremo'* Vriesea 'Elvira'* Vriesea 'Gigant Jade'* Vriesea 'Glossy Girl'...
  
  (Carrière
  Élie-Abel Carrière
  Élie-Abel Carrière was a French botanist, based in Paris. He was a leading authority on conifers in the period 1850-1870, describing many new species, and the new genera Tsuga, Keteleeria and Pseudotsuga. His most important work was the Traité Général des Conifères, published in 1855, with a...
  
  ) E.Morren
  Charles Jacques Édouard Morren
  Charles Jacques Édouard Morren , was a Belgian botanist, professor of botany and director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège from 1857-1886. His special field of study was the Bromeliaceae on which family he was the recognised authority...
  
   var. hieroglyphica
• Vriesea hydrophora
  Vriesea hydrophora
  Vriesea hydrophora is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  Ule
• Vriesea inflata
  Vriesea inflata
  Vriesea inflata is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-Cultivars:* Vriesea 'Charm'* Vriesea 'Charm Too'* Vriesea 'Chubby'* Vriesea 'Flirtation'* Vriesea 'Golden Koi'* Vriesea 'Infatuation'...
  
  (Wawra
  Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee
  Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer....
  
  ) Wawra
  Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee
  Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer....
  
  
• Vriesea longicaulis
  Vriesea longicaulis
  Vriesea longicaulis is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  (Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Vriesea longiscapa
  Vriesea longiscapa
  Vriesea longiscapa is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  Ule
• Vriesea paraibica
  Vriesea paraibica
  Vriesea paraibica is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  Wawra
  Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee
  Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer....
  
  
• Vriesea sparsiflora
  Vriesea sparsiflora
  Vriesea sparsiflora is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  
• Vriesea vagans
  Vriesea vagans
  Vriesea vagans is a species of the genus Vriesea. This species is native to Brazil.-References:* retrieved 22 October 2009...
  
  (L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  ) L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  
• Wittrockia
  Wittrockia
  Wittrockia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus name is for Veit Bracher Wittrock, Swedish botanist . These plants are native to Central and South America....
  
  bragarum E.Pereira & L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
  

Cactaceae

• Hatiora
  Hatiora
  Hatiora Britton & Rose is a small genus of epiphytic cacti which belongs to the tribe Rhipsalideae within the subfamily Cactoideae of the Cactaceae...
  
  salicornioides (Haw.
  Adrian Hardy Haworth
  Adrian Hardy Haworth was an English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist.He was the son of Benjamin Haworth of Haworth Hall...
  
  ) Britton
  Nathaniel Lord Britton
  Nathaniel Lord Britton was an American botanist and taxonomist who founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York. Britton was born in New Dorp in Staten Island, New York...
  
   & Rose
  Joseph Nelson Rose
  Joseph Nelson Rose was an American botanist. He was born in Union County, Indiana. His father died serving during the Civil War when Joseph Rose was a young boy. He later graduated from high school in Liberty, Indiana....
  
  
• Lepismium
  Lepismium
  Lepismium is a genus of mostly epiphytic cacti, with a dozen species. They are found in tropical South America.-Synonymy:The following genera have been brought into synonymy with this genus:*Acanthorhipsalis Britton & Rose...
  
  houlletianum
  Lepismium houlletianum
  Lepismium houlletianum is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and possibly Bolivia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:* Taylor,...
  
  (Lem.
  Charles Antoine Lemaire
  Charles Antoine Lemaire , was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae....
  
  ) Barthlott
• Rhipsalis
  Rhipsalis
  Rhipsalis is a genus of epiphytic cacti. They are typically known as mistletoe cacti. The scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek term for wickerwork, referring to the plants' habitus. Rhipsalis is one is part of the tribe Rhipsalideae within the subfamily Cactoideae of the Cactaceae...
  
  capilliformes F.A.C.Weber
• Rhipsalis clavata F.A.C.Weber
• Rhipsalis elliptica
  Rhipsalis elliptica
  Rhipsalis elliptica is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:...
  
  G.Lindb. ex K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  
• Rhipsalis floccosa
  Rhipsalis floccosa
  Rhipsalis floccosa is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss....
  
  Salm-Dyck ex Pfeiff.
• Rhipsalis houlletiana Lem.
  Charles Antoine Lemaire
  Charles Antoine Lemaire , was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae....
  
  
• Rhipsalis trigona Pfeiff.
• Schlumbergera truncata
  Schlumbergera truncata
  Schlumbergera truncata is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is endemic to a small area of the coastal mountains of south-eastern Brazil where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist forests...
  
  (Haw.
  Adrian Hardy Haworth
  Adrian Hardy Haworth was an English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist.He was the son of Benjamin Haworth of Haworth Hall...
  
  ) Moran
  Moran
  Moran is a modern Irish surname and derived from membership of a medieval dynastic sept. The name means a descendent of Mórán, translated as Big One. Morans were a respected sept of the Uí Fiachrach dynasty in the western counties of Mayo and Sligo...
  
  

Caesalpinioideae

Caesalpinioideae

Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name Caesalpinia....

• Bauhinia
  Bauhinia
  Bauhinia is a genus of more than 200 species of flowering plants in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers, Swiss-French botanists....
  
  microstachya (Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...
  
  ) J.F.Macbr.
• Copaifera
  Copaifera
  Copaifera is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.The scientific name means "copal-bearer" , since economically important resins and essential oils can be acquired from them. They are also important for production of biodiesel and wood, especially Copaifera langsdorffii...
  
  trapezifolia Hayne
• Sclerolobium
  Sclerolobium
  Sclerolobium is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Sclerolobium beaureipairei* Sclerolobium densiflorum* Sclerolobium denudatum* Sclerolobium pilgerianum* Sclerolobium striatum...
  
  beaurepairei Harms
• Sclerolobium friburgense Harms
• Sclerolobium rugosum Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   ex Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Senna macranthera
  Senna macranthera
  Senna macranthera is a tree in the family of Fabaceae.With a height of 6 to 9 m, it has an abundance of yellow flowers from December to April in its homelands.- External links :* H.S. Irwin et Barneby, at Tela Botanica...
  
  (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
   ex Collad.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  Rupert Charles Barneby
  Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...
  
   var. macranthera
• Senna multijuga var. lindleyana (Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  ) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  Rupert Charles Barneby
  Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...
  
  
• Tachigali
  Tachigali
  Tachigali is a flowering plant genus in the legume family that contains 54 species.Species include:* Tachigali multijuga Benth. * Tachigali myrmecophila...
  
  paratyensis (Vell.) H.C. Lima (= Tachigali multijuga Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  ).

Campanulaceae

Campanulaceae

The family Campanulaceae , of the order Asterales, contains about 2000 species in 70 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky non-toxic sap...

• Centropogon
  Centropogon
  Centropogon is a plant genus in the family Campanulaceae. In systems where the Lobeliaceae are recognized as distinct, Centropogon is placed there....
  
  tortilis E.Wimm.
• Siphocampylus
  Siphocampylus
  Siphocampylus is a genus of plant in family Campanulaceae. It contains the following species :* Siphocampylus affinis, McVaugh* Siphocampylus asplundii, Jeppesen* Siphocampylus ecuadoriensis, E.Wimm....
  
  longepedunculatus Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....
  
  

Cannaceae

• Canna
  Canna (plant)
  Canna is a genus of nineteen species of flowering plants. The closest living relations to cannas are the other plant families of the order Zingiberales, that is the gingers, bananas, marantas, heliconias, strelitzias, etc.Canna is the only genus in the family Cannaceae...
  
  coccinea
  Canna coccinea
  Canna coccinea is a species of the Canna genus, belonging to the family Cannaceae, a native of northern Argentina. Introduced to England from South America in 1731....
  
  Mill.
  Philip Miller
  Philip Miller FRS was a Scottish botanist.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death...
  
  
• Canna paniculata
  Canna paniculata
  Canna paniculata Ruiz & Pav. is a species of the Canna genus, belonging to the family Cannaceae. Native of southern Mexico, Costa Rica, and tropical South America, except for the Amazon Basin, at 200-2,000m ....
  
  Ruiz
  Hipólito Ruiz López
  Hipólito Ruiz López , or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
  
   & Pav.
  José Antonio Pavón Jiménez
  José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
  
  

Caprifoliaceae

Caprifoliaceae

The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade consisting of about 800 dicotyledonous flowering plants, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution; centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa.They are mostly...

• Lonicera japonica Thunb.
  Carl Peter Thunberg
  Carl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus"....
  
   ex Murray – Japanese Honeysuckle
  Japanese Honeysuckle
  The Japanese Honeysuckle is a species of honeysuckle native to eastern Asia including China , Japan, and Korea. It is a twining vine able to climb up to high or more in trees, with opposite, simple oval leaves long and broad...
  
  

Celastraceae

Celastraceae

The Celastraceae , is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales...

• Celastrus racemosus Turcz.
  Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow
  Porphir Kiril Nicolai Stepanowitsch Turczaninow was a Ukrainian-Russian botanist who first identified several genera, and many species of plants...
  
  
• Maytenus
  Maytenus
  Maytenus is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family, Celastraceae. Members of the genus are distributed throughout Central and South America, Southeast Asia, Micronesia and Australasia, the Indian Ocean and Africa...
  
  brasiliensis Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Maytenus communis Reiss.

Chloranthaceae

Chloranthaceae

Chloranthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The family consists of four genera, totalling several dozen species, of herbaceous or woody plants occurring in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Madagascar, Central & South America, and the West Indies...

• Hedyosmum
  Hedyosmum
  Hedyosmum is a genus of plant in family Chloranthaceae.Species include:* Hedyosmum angustifolium* Hedyosmum anisodorum* Hedyosmum arborescens* Hedyosmum bonplandianum, Kunth* Hedyosmum brasiliense* Hedyosmum brenesii...
  
  brasiliense Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  

Chrysobalanaceae

Chrysobalanaceae

Chrysobalanaceae is a family of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, consisting of 17 genera and about 460 species of leptocaul that grows in the Tropics or is subtropical and common in the Americas...

• Couepia
  Couepia
  Couepia is a genus of flowering plants in the family ChrysobalanaceaeCouepia is a genus of flowering plants in the family ChrysobalanaceaeCouepia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae...
  
  venosa Prance
• Licania
  Licania
  Licania is a plant genus in the family Chrysobalanaceae. Mainly due to deforestation, several species of these shrubs and smallish trees have declined, some markedly so, and L. caldasiana from Colombia appears to have gone extinct in recent years....
  
  kunthiana Hook.f.
  Joseph Dalton Hooker
  Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
  
  

Clethraceae

Clethraceae

Clethraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Asia and the Americas, with one species also on Madeira...

• Clethra
  Clethra
  Clethra is a genus of between 30-70 species of flowering shrubs or small trees. It is one of two genera in the family Clethraceae...
  
  scabra var. laevigata (Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  ) Sleumer
  Hermann Otto Sleumer
  Hermann Otto Sleumer was a Dutch botanist of German birth. The plant genera Sleumerodendron Virot and Sleumeria Utteridge, Nagam. & Teo , are named for him....
  
  
• Cletha scabra Pers. var. scabra

Clusiaceae

Clusiaceae

The Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. is a family of plants formerly including about 37 genera and 1610 species of trees and shrubs, often with milky sap and fruits or capsules for seeds. It is primarily tropical...

• Clusia
  Clusia
  Clusia is the type genus of the family Clusiaceae. Comprising 140-150 species, it is native to tropical and subtropical America. Its species are shrubs, vines and small to medium-size trees up to 20 m tall, with evergreen foliage...
  
  criuva Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Clusia fragrans Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Clusia lanceolata Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Clusia marizii Gomes da Silva & Weinberg
  Weinberg
  Weinberg may refer to:* Weinberg an der Raab in Styria* Weinberg Center for the Arts- Other Results :* Weinberg angle* Weinberg's Law of Twins* Hardy-Weinberg principle* Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences- See also :...
  
  
• Clusia organensis Planch.
  Jules Émile Planchon
  Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent...
  
   & Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  
• Clusia studartiana C.M.Vieira & Gomes da Silva
• Kielmeyera
  Kielmeyera
  Kielmeyera is a plant genus in the family Calophyllaceae. It is endemic to South America, with a large occurrence in the Brazilian cerrados.Species include:*Kielmeyera coriacea*Kielmeyera microphylla*Kielmeyera peruviana...
  
  insignis N.Saddi
• Rheedia gardneriana Planch.
  Jules Émile Planchon
  Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent...
  
   & Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  
• Tovomita
  Tovomita
  Tovomita is a plant genus of the family Clusiaceae. They are noted for having white-yellow latex and containing xanthones. There are about 45 species, found in tropical America, 30 of which are in Venezuela.Species include:*Tovomita aequatoriensis...
  
  glazioviana Engl.
• Tovomitopsis
  Tovomitopsis
  Tovomitopsis is a genus of flowering plant in the Clusiaceae family.Some species have been synonymizedd to the genus Chrysochlamys.-Species:* T. allenii* T. angustifolia* T. centistaminibus* T. colombiana* T. costaricana...
  
  saldanhae Engl.

Combretaceae

Combretaceae

Combretaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Myrtales. The family includes about 600 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 18 genera. The family includes the leadwood tree, Combretum imberbe. Three genera, Conocarpus, Laguncularia and Lumnitzera, grow in mangrove habitats ....

• Terminalia
  Terminalia (plant)
  Terminalia is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising around 100 species distributed in tropical regions of the world. This genus gets it name from Latin terminus, referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots.Trees of this genus...
  
  januarensis DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  

Commelinaceae

Commelinaceae

Commelinaceae is a family of flowering plants. In less formal contexts, the group is referred to as the dayflower family or spiderwort family. It is one of five families in the order Commelinales and by far the largest of these with an estimated 650 species in 40 genera. Well known genera include...

• Dichorisandra
  Dichorisandra
  Dichorisandra is a genus of perennial monocotyledonous flowering plants in the dayflower family. It is found in the neotropics and consists of about 25 species...
  
  thyrsiflora
  Dichorisandra thyrsiflora
  Blue Ginger is a tropical plant which resembles ginger in growth and habit, but is actually a relative of the wandering Jew plant. The plant is native to the tropical woodlands of North, Central and South America, specially in Atlantic Forest vegetation in Brazil...
  
  J.C.Mikan
• Tradescantia
  Tradescantia
  Tradescantia , the Spiderworts, is a genus of an estimated 71 species of perennial plants in the family Commelinaceae, native to the New World from southern Canada south to northern Argentina. They are weakly upright to scrambling plants, growing to 30–60 cm tall, and are commonly found...
  
  sp.

Convolvulaceae

Convolvulaceae

Convolvulaceae, known commonly as the bindweed or morning glory family, are a group of about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species of mostly herbaceous vines, but also trees, shrubs and herbs.- Description :...

• Ipomoea
  Ipomoea
  Ipomoea is the largest genus in the flowering plant family Convolvulaceae, with over 500 species. Most of these are called "morning glories", but this can refer to related genera also. Those formerly separated in Calonyction are called "moonflowers"...
  
  demerariana Choisy (=Ipomoea phyllomega (Vell.) House)

Cornaceae

Cornaceae

Cornaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales. It contains approximately 110 species, mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen. Members of this family usually have opposite or alternate simple leaves, four- or five-parted flowers clustered in...

• Griselina ruscifolia (Clos) Taub.

Cucurbitaceae

Cucurbitaceae

The plant family Cucurbitaceae consists of various squashes, melons, and gourds, including crops such as cucumber, pumpkins, luffas, and watermelons...

• Anisosperma passiflora (Vell.) Silva Manso
• Apodanthera
  Apodanthera
  Apodanthera is a genus of plants in the family Cucurbitaceae....
  
  argentea Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Cayaponia cf. tayuya (Vell.) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Melothria cucumis Vell. var. cucumis
• Melothrianthus smilacifolius (Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  ) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   Crov.

Cunoniaceae

Cunoniaceae

The Cunoniaceae is a family of 26 genera and about 350 species of woody plants in the Antarctic flora, with many laurifolia species with glossy leaves endemic to laurel forest habitat. The family is native to Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Zealand, southern South America, the Mascarene...

• Lamanonia ternata Vell.
• Weinmannia
  Weinmannia
  Weinmannia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cunoniaceae. The genus includes approximately 150 species of canopy trees and shrubs, ranging across the montane tropics and temperate New Zealand and Chile....
  
  paullinifolia Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....
  
   ex Ser.
  Nicolas Charles Seringe
  Nicolas Charles Seringe was a French physician and botanist who was a native of Longjumeau.He studied medicine in Paris, and subsequently served as a military surgeon. In this role he was involved in the German campaign under General Jean Victor Marie Moreau...
  
  

Cyperaceae

Cyperaceae

Cyperaceae are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses or rushes. The family is large, with some 5,500 species described in about 109 genera. These species are widely distributed, with the centers of diversity for the group...

• Pleurostachys densefoliata H.Pfeiff.
• Pleurostachys millegrana (Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  ) Steud.
  Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
  Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was a German physician and an authority on grasses.Steudel lived in Esslingen where with Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter he organized Unio Itineraria.- References :...
  
  
• Rhynchospora
  Rhynchospora
  Rhynchospora is a genus of about 250-300 species of sedges with a cosmopolitan distribution. The genus includes both annual and perennial species, mostly with erect 3-sided stems and 3-ranked leaves...
  
  exaltata Kunth
  Carl Sigismund Kunth
  Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...
  
  
• Scleria
  Scleria
  Scleria is a genus of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. Rather tall, coarse plants with leafy, three-angled stems, sometimes with wings along the angles...
  
  panicoides Kunth
  Carl Sigismund Kunth
  Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...
  
  

Dichapetalaceae

Dichapetalaceae

Dichapetalaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 3 genera and about 165 species. Members of this family are trees, shrubs or lianas found in tropical and subtropical regions of the world....

• Stephanopodium
  Stephanopodium
  Stephanopodium is a genus of plant in family Dichapetalaceae.Species include:* Stephanopodium longipedicellatum, Prance* Stephanopodium magnifolium, Prance...
  
  organense (Rizzini) Prance

Dioscoreaceae

Dioscoreaceae

Dioscoreaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, with about 750 species in eight or nine genera. The best-known member of the family is the Yam ....

• Dioscorea
  Dioscorea
  Dioscorea is a genus of over 600 species of flowering plants in the family Dioscoreaceae, native throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. The vast majority of the species are tropical, with only a few species extending into temperate climates...
  
  subhastata Vell.
• Hyperocarpa filiformes (Griseb.
  August Grisebach
  August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...
  
  ) G.M.Barroso, E.F.Guim. & Sucre
  Sucre
  Sucre, also known historically as Charcas, La Plata and Chuquisaca is the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the department of Chuquisaca. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of 2750m...
  
  

Elaeocarpaceae

Elaeocarpaceae

Elaeaocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family approximately contains 605 species of trees and shrubs in 12 genera. The largest genera are Elaeocarpus, with about 350 species, and Sloanea, with about 150....

• Sloanea
  Sloanea
  Sloanea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae, comprising about 150 species .Species include:* Sloanea acutiflora, Uittien* Sloanea assamica, Rehder & E. Wilson* Sloanea australis, Benth. & F.Muell...
  
  monosperma Vell.

Ericaceae

Ericaceae

The Ericaceae, commonly known as the heath or heather family, is a group of mostly calcifuge flowering plants. The family is large, with roughly 4000 species spread across 126 genera, making it the 14th most speciose family of flowering plants...

• Gaultheria
  Gaultheria
  Gaultheria is a genus of about 170-180 species of shrubs in the family Ericaceae. The name memorializes Jean François Gauthier of Quebec, a mis-spelt honour bestowed by the Scandinavian Pehr Kalm in 1748. These plants are native to Asia, North and South America, and Australasia...
  
  eriophylla (Pers.) Sleumer
  Hermann Otto Sleumer
  Hermann Otto Sleumer was a Dutch botanist of German birth. The plant genera Sleumerodendron Virot and Sleumeria Utteridge, Nagam. & Teo , are named for him....
  
   ex Burtt
  Burtt
  Burtt may refer to:* Joseph Burtt , British archivist.* Henry Burtt , U.S. lawyer and mayor of Jeffersonville, Indiana.* Tom Burtt , New Zealand cricketer.* Edwin Arthur Burtt , U.S. philosopher....
  
  
• Gaylussacia
  Gaylussacia
  Gaylussacia is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to the Americas, where they occur in eastern North America and in South America in the Andes and the mountains of southeastern Brazil...
  
  aff. fasciculata Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Gaylussacia brasiliensis (Spreng.) Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  

Erythroxylaceae

Erythroxylaceae

The Erythroxylaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of 4 genera and approximately 240 species. The best-known species is the coca plant , the source of the drug cocaine....

• Erythroxylum
  Erythroxylum
  Erythroxylum is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Erythroxylaceae. Many 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...
  
  citrifolium A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  
• Erythroxylum cuspidifolium Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae, the Spurge family are a large family of flowering plants with 300 genera and around 7,500 species. Most are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are also shrubs or trees. Some are succulent and resemble cacti....

• Alchornea
  Alchornea
  Alchornea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 70 tropical species.-Synonyms:*Bleekeria Miq.*Bossera Leandri*Caelebogyne J.Sm.*Cladodes Lour.*Hermesia Humb. & Bonpl....
  
  triplinervia
  Alchornea triplinervia
  Alchornea triplinervia is a commercial timber tree native to Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest, and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is found in the following states of Brazil: Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro,...
  
  (Spreng.) Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Croton floribundus Spreng.
• Croton organensis Baill.
  Henri Ernest Baillon
  Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
  
  
• Croton salutaris Casar.
• Fragariopsis scandens A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  
• Hieronyma
  Hieronyma
  Hieronyma is a genus belonging to the plant family Phyllanthaceae. This family was formerly united with spurges, crotons, copperleaves, etc , but have turned out to be well distinct....
  
  alchorneoides Allemão
  Francisco Freire Allemão e Cysneiro
  Francisco Freire Allemão e Cysneiro was a Brazilian botanist who collected in northeast Brazil and along the Rio de Janeiro. His association with the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janeiro took place at a time when Brazilian botany was dominated by foreigners.Among his many duties as...
  
  
• Pera
  Pera (genus)
  Pera is a genus of the flowering plant family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus of its tribe . Pera differs from other Euphorbiaceae in several characteristics and some classifications place it in its own family, Peraceae....
  
  obovata (Klotzsch
  Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
  Johann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...
  
  ) Baill.
  Henri Ernest Baillon
  Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
  
  
• Phyllanthus
  Phyllanthus
  Phyllanthus is the largest genus in the flowering plant family Phyllanthaceae. Estimates of the number species in this genus vary widely, from 750 to 1200. Phyllanthus has a remarkable diversity of growth forms including annual and perennial herbs, shrubs, climbers, floating aquatics, and...
  
  glaziovii Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Sapium
  Sapium
  Sapium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, comprising about 125 species. The genus is native to the tropics, especially the Neotropics...
  
  glandulatum Pax
  Ferdinand Albin Pax
  Ferdinand Albin Pax was a German botanist and entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera, Diptera, as well as in spermatophytes, describing several species....
  
  
• Tetrorchidium
  Tetrorchidium
  Tetrorchidium is a genus of plants, under the family Euphorbiaceae.-Selected species:* T. andinum Müll.Arg.* T. boyacanum Croizat* T. brevifolium Standl. & Steyerm.* T. bulbipilosum Cuatrec....
  
  parvulum Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  

Faboideae

Faboideae

Faboideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. One acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae....

• Andira
  Andira
  Andira is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Andira aubletii Benth.* Andira galeottiana* Andira inermis* Andira humilis-External Links:* -References:...
  
  fraxinifolia Benth.
• Camptosema
  Camptosema
  Camptosema is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae....
  
  spectabile (Tul.) Burkart
• Crotalaria
  Crotalaria
  Crotalaria is a genus of herbaceous plants and woody shrubs in the Family Fabaceae commonly known as rattlepods. Some 600 or more species of Crotalaria are described worldwide, mostly from the tropics; at least 500 species are known from Africa. Some species of Crotalaria are grown as ornamentals...
  
  vitellina var. laeta (Mart. ex Benth.) Windler & S. Skinner
• Dalbergia
  Dalbergia
  Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. The genus has a wide distribution, native to the tropical regions of Central and South America, Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia...
  
  foliolosa Benth.
• Dalbergia frutescens
  Dalbergia frutescens
  Dalbergia frutescens is a species of shrub distributed along the Atlantic coast of South America. A synonym is Dalbergia variabilis. Its habit is variable, usually being a liana....
  
  (Vell.) Britton
• Dalbergia glaziovii Harms
• Dalbergia lateriflora Benth.
• Dioclea
  Dioclea
  Dioclea is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Americas. The seeds of these legumes are buoyant drift seeds, and are dispersed by rivers....
  
  schottii Benth.
• Erythrina
  Erythrina
  Erythrina is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 130 species, which are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. They are trees, growing up to in height...
  
  falcata
  Erythrina falcata
  Erythrina falcata , commonly known as the Brazilian Coral Tree, is a timber tree native to Atlantic Forest vegetation in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina...
  
  Benth.
• Lonchocarpus
  Lonchocarpus
  Lonchocarpus is a plant genus in the legume family . The species are called lancepods due to their fruit resembling an ornate lance tip or a few beads on a string....
  
  glaziovii Taub.
• Machaerium
  Machaerium
  Machaerium is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species:* Machaerium chambersii*Machaerium cirrhiferum * Machaerium cuzcoense* Machaerium glabripes* Machaerium nicaraguense...
  
  cantarellianum Hoehne
• Machaerium gracile Benth.
• Machaerium nyctitans
  Machaerium nyctitans
  Machaerium nyctitans, also known known as Canela do Brejo or Espuela de Gallo, is a tree species in the family Fabaceae, native to Brazil and Argentina....
  
  (Vell.) Benth.
• Machaerium oblongifolium Vogel
• Machaerium reticulatum (Poir.) Pers.
• Machaerium triste Vogel
• Myrocarpus
  Myrocarpus
  Myrocarpus is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Myrocarpus frondosus...
  
  frondosus
  Myrocarpus frondosus
  Myrocarpus frondosus, the Ibirá-Payé, Incienso, Quina Morada, or Qu, is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...
  
  Allemão
• Ormosia
  Ormosia
  Ormosia is a genus of legumes . The more than 110 living species, mostly trees or large shrubs, are distributed throughout the tropical regions of the world, some extending into temperate zones, especially in East Asia. A few species are threatened by habitat destruction, while the Hainan Ormosia...
  
  fastigiata Tul.
• Ormosia friburgensis Glaz.
• Pterocarpus
  Pterocarpus
  Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae, most of which yield valuable timber traded as padauk ; other common names are mukwa or narra...
  
  rohrii Vahl
• Swartzia
  Swartzia
  Swartzia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Swartzia aureosericea* Swartzia bombycina* Swartzia cardiosperma* Swartzia cubensis...
  
  myrtifolia var. elegans (Schott) R. S. Cowan
• Zollernia
  Zollernia
  Zollernia is a genus of the family Fabaceae native to Central and South America. Zollernia are trees or shrubs that flower annually....
  
  glaziovii Yakovlev
• Zollernia ilicifolia (Brongn.) Vogel

Flacourtiaceae

Flacourtiaceae

Flacourtiaceae is a defunct family of flowering plants whose former members have been scattered to various other families, mostly to Achariaceae, Samydaceae, and Salicaceae. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it became a dumping ground for odd and anomalous...

• Casearia
  Casearia
  Casearia is a plant genus in the family Salicaceae. The genus was included in the Flacourtiaceae under the Cronquist system of angiosperm classification, and earlier in the Samydaceae. Recent research indicates that the latter group might be reinstated as a valid family.They are sometimes employed...
  
  arborea (Rich.) Urb.
• Casearia decandra Jacq.
• Casearia obliqua Spreng.
• Casearia pauciflora Cambess.
• Casearia sylvestris Sw.
• Lacistema
  Lacistema
  A genus of plant in family Lacistemataceae. It consists of 11 species:*Lacistema krukovii Sleumer*Lacistema macbridei Baehni *Lacistema nena Macbride...
  
  pubescens Mart.
• Xylosma
  Xylosma
  Xylosma is a genus of flowering plants in the in the willow family, Salicaceae. It contains around 100 species of spiny evergreen shrubs and trees commonly known as brushhollies, xylosmas, or, more ambiguously, "logwoods"...
  
  ciliatifolia (Clos) Eichler
• Xylosma prockia (Turcz.) Turcz.

Gentianaceae

Gentianaceae

Gentianaceae are a family of flowering plants of 87 genera and over 1500 species. Flowers are actinomorphic and bisexual with fused sepals and petals. The stamens are attached to the inside of the petals and alternate with the corolla lobes. There is a glandular disk at the base of the gynoecium,...

• Macrocarpaea
  Macrocarpaea
  The genus Macrocarpaea, with 105 species and two hybrids of 0.5 m herbs, shrubs, epiphytes and small trees to 10 m tall, is the largest genus of the tribe Helieae of the gentian family...
  
  glaziovii Gilg
  Ernest Friedrich Gilg
  Ernest Friedrich Gilg was a German botanist.- Life :Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin...
  
  

Gesneriaceae

Gesneriaceae

Gesneriaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of ca. 150 genera and ca. 3,200 species in the Old World and New World tropics and subtropics, with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants.Most...

• Besleria
  Besleria
  Besleria is a genus of ca. 200 species of large herbs and soft-stemmed subshrubs or shrubs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. They occur in Central America, South America, and the West Indies....
  
  fasciculata Wawra
• Besleria macahensis Brade
• Besleria melancholica (Vell.) C. V. Morton
• Codonanthe
  Codonanthe
  Codonanthe is a New World genus, consists of a dozen or more species of evergreen epiphytic compact creeping vines with rooting along their stems, and scandent herbs or subshrubs with woody, upright stems from Brazil, Guiana, Central America and West Indies. In its own habitat, the plant usually...
  
  cordifolia Chautems
• Codonanthe gracilis (Mart.) Hanst.
• Nematanthus
  Nematanthus
  Nematanthus is a genus of flowering plants of the family Gesneriaceae. Compared to other gesneriads, Nematanthus has leaves that are small, succulent, and hard-surfaced...
  
  crassifolius subsp. chloronema (Mart.) Chautems
• Nematanthus hirtellus (Schott) Wiehler
• Nematanthus lanceolatus (Poir.) Chautems
• Nematanthus serpens (Vell.) Chautems
• Sinningia
  Sinningia
  Sinningia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae. It is named after Wilhelm Sinning , a gardener of the Botanische Gärten der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn...
  
  cooperi (Paxt.) Wiehler
• Sinningia incarnata (Aubl.) D. L. Denham
• Vanhouttea fruticulosa (Hoehne) Chautems

Hippocrateaceae

Hippocrateaceae

Hippocrateaceae Juss. previously consisted of about 150 tropical and subtropical species of shrubs and lianes, and is now included in the Celastraceae family...

• Cheiloclinium neglectum A.C.Sm.
  Albert Charles Smith
  Albert Charles Smith was an American botanist.-Life:He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired several important scientific societies, such as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists....
  
  
• Hippocratea volubilis L.
• Salacia
  Salacia (genus)
  Salacia is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae.-Medicinal uses:Several species in this genus of plant have been used in traditional medical systems for thousands of years, particularly in the Ayurveda system from India. Uses have included treatment of diabetes, obesity, gonorrhea,...
  
  amygdalina Peyr.
  Johann Joseph Peyritsch
  Johann Joseph Peyritsch was an Austrian physician and botanist who was a native of Völkermarkt.In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate from Vienna, and from 1878 to 1889 was a professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck...
  
  
• Tontelea
  Tontelea
  Tontelea is a genus of plant in family Celastraceae.Species include:* Tontelea hondurensis, A.C. Smith...
  
  leptophylla A.C.Sm.
  Albert Charles Smith
  Albert Charles Smith was an American botanist.-Life:He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired several important scientific societies, such as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists....
  
  

Humiriaceae

Humiriaceae

Humiriaceae is a family of evergreen flowering plants. It comprises 8 genera and about 50 species.The family is exclusively neotropical, except one species found in tropical West Africa....

• Humiriastrum
  Humiriastrum
  Humiriastrum is a genus of plant in family Humiriaceae. It contains the following species :* Humiriastrum melanocarpum, Cuatrec....
  
  glaziovii (Urb.
  Ignatz Urban
  Ignatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
  
  ) Cuatrec. var. glaziovii
• Humiriastrum glaziovii var. angustifolium Cuatrec.
• Vantanea
  Vantanea
  Vantanea is a genus of plant in family Humiriaceae. It contains the following species :* Vantanea depleta, McPherson* Vantanea magdalenensis, Cuatrec.* Vantanea peruviana, J. F. Macbr....
  
  compacta (Schnizl.) Cuatrec. subsp. compacta var. compacta
• Vantanea compactasubsp. compacta var. grandiflora (Urb.
  Ignatz Urban
  Ignatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
  
  ) Cuatrec.

Icacinaceae

Icacinaceae

Icacinaceae is a family of flowering plants.It consists of trees, shrubs, and lianas, primarily of the tropics.The family was traditionally circumscribed quite broadly, with around 55 genera totalling over 400 species...

• Citronella
  Citronella (genus)
  Citronella is a genus of trees and shrubs in the Cardiopteridaceae family, it lies in 25 species occurring mostly in tropical climates. Earlier the genus was treated in Icacinaceae family.-Cultivation and uses:Few species have been cultivated...
  
   paniculata (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) R.A.Howard

Labiatae

• Salvia
  Salvia
  Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, with approximately 700-900 species of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. It is one of several genera commonly referred to as sage. When used without modifiers, sage generally refers to Salvia officinalis ; however, it is...
  
  rivularis Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Scutellaria
  Scutellaria
  Scutellaria is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It contains about 300 species, which are commonly known as skullcaps...
  
  uliginosa A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
   ex Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  

Lauraceae

Lauraceae

The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 3500, perhaps as many as 4000, species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America...

• Aniba
  Aniba
  Aniba is an american neotropical flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae. They are present in low and mountain cloud forest in Caribbean islands, Central America, and norther to central South America.- Description :...
  
  firmula (Nees et Mart.) Mez
• Beilschmiedia
  Beilschmiedia
  Beilschmiedia is a genus of trees and shrubs in family Lauraceae. Most of its species grow in tropical climates, but a few of them are native to temperate regions, and they are widespread in tropical Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, North America, Central America, the Caribbean,...
  
  fluminensis Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia rigida (Mez) Kosterm.
• Cinnamomum
  Cinnamomum
  Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark. The genus contains over 300 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of North America, Central America,...
  
  glaziovii (Mez) Kosterm.
• Cinnamomum riedelianum Kosterm.
• Cryptocarya
  Cryptocarya
  Cryptocarya is a genus of evergreen trees belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. The genus includes more than 350 species, distributed through the Neotropic, Afrotropic, Indomalaya, and Australasia ecozones.-Overview:...
  
  micrantha Meisn.
• Cryptocarya moschata Nees et Mart. ex Nees
• Endlicheria
  Endlicheria
  Endlicheria is a genus of plant in family Lauraceae. Endlicheria is a neotropical genus consisting of approximately 60 species occurring mostly in the norther South America and Amazon region.-Overview:...
  
  paniculata (Spreng.) J.F.Macbr.
• Nectandra
  Nectandra
  Nectandra is a genus of plant in family Lauraceae.-Overview:Plants from this genus have been used in the treatment of several clinical disorders in humans. It has been demonstrated that Nectandra plants have potential analgesic, antiinflammatory, febrifuge, energetic and hypotensive activities...
  
  leucantha Nees
• Nectandra oppositifolia Nees
• Nectandra puberula (Schott) Nees
• Ocotea
  Ocotea
  Ocotea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. The genus includes over 200 species of evergreen trees and shrubs, distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical regions of Central and South America, the West Indies, also with a few species in Africa and Madagascar, and...
  
  acypahilla (Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea catharinensis
  Ocotea catharinensis
  Ocotea catharinensis is a species of plant in the Lauraceae family. An Atlantic rainforest species, it is endemic to Eastern Brazil, its range extending southward from Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul . It is threatened by habitat loss due to its excessive harvesting for both timber and essential...
  
  Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea diospyrifolia (Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea dispersa (Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea divaricata (Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea domatiata Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea glaziovii Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea indecora (Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea teleiandra (Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea notata (Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea odorifera
  Ocotea odorifera
  Ocotea odorifera is a species of plant in the Lauraceae family. It is found in possibly Argentina, Brazil, and possibly Paraguay. It is threatened by habitat loss....
  
  (Vell.) Rohwer
• Ocotea puberula
  Ocotea puberula
  Ocotea puberula is a species of plant in the Lauraceae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, and Suriname.-References:* Pedralli, G. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  (Rich.
  Louis Claude Richard
  Louis Claude Marie Richard was a French botanist.Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies...
  
  ) Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  
• Ocotea pulchra Vattimo-Gil
• Ocotea silvestris Vattimo-Gil
• Ocotea spixiana (Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea tabacifolia Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  ) Rohwer
• Ocotea urbaniana Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Ocotea vaccinioides Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  
• Persea
  Persea
  Persea is a genus of about 150 species of evergreen trees belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The best-known member of the genus is the avocado, P. americana, widely cultivated in subtropical regions for its large, edible fruit.-Overview:...
  
  fulva Koop var. fulva
• Persea pyrifolia
  Persea pyrifolia
  Persea pyrifolia is a species of plant in the Lauraceae family. It is found in Brazil and Mexico.-References:* Pedralli, G. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  Nees & Mart. ex Nees
• Rhodostemonodaphne
  Rhodostemonodaphne
  Rhodostemonodaphne is a genus of plant in family Lauraceae. Rhodostemonodaphne is a neotropical genus consisting of approximately 41 species occurring mostly in the norther South America and Amazon region.-Overview:...
  
  macrocalyx (Meisn.) Rohwer ex Madriñán

Lecythidaceae

Lecythidaceae

The Lecythidaceae comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species of woody plants native to tropical South America and Madagascar.According to the most recent molecular analysis of Lecythidaceae The Lecythidaceae comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species of woody plants...

• Cariniana
  Cariniana
  Cariniana is a genus of trees in the family Lecythidaceae, native to South America. Many are of importance for timber production.It contains the following species:* Cariniana decandra* Cariniana estrellensis...
  
  estrellensis (Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...
  
  ) Kuntze

Lentibulariaceae

Lentibulariaceae

Lentibulariaceae is a family of carnivorous plants containing three genera, Genlisea, the corkscrew plants, Pinguicula, the butterworts, and Utricularia, the bladderworts....

• Utricularia geminiloba
  Utricularia geminiloba
  Utricularia geminiloba is a medium-sized perennial lithophyte or terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. geminiloba is endemic to Brazil. It was originally published and described by Ludwig Benjamin in 1847. The species epithet refers to the two pronounced...
  
  Benj.
  Ludwig Benjamin
  Ludwig Benjamin was a German botanist who contributed to Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius' Flora Brasiliensis. The standard author abbreviation Benj. is used to indicate him as the author when citing a botanical name. The genus Benjaminia is named in his honour....
  
  

Lobeliaceae

Lobeliaceae

Lobelioideae is a subfamily of the plant family Campanulaceae. It contains 32 genera, totalling about 1200 species. Some of the larger genera are Lobelia, Siphocampylus, Centropogon, Burmeistera and Cyanea....

 

• Lobelia
  Lobelia
  Lobelia is a genus of flowering plant comprising 360–400 species, with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions...
  
  thapsoidea
  Lobelia thapsoidea
  Lobelia thapsoidea is a tall herb occurring in elevated areas of Southeastern Brazil. As all other species in the subfamily Lobelioideae, it is poisonous and should be handled carefully.-External links:*...
  
  Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  

Loganiaceae

Loganiaceae

Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants classified in order Gentianales. The family includes 13 genera, distributed around the world's tropics.Earlier treatments of the family have included up to 29 genera...

• Spigelia
  Spigelia
  Spigelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Loganiaceae. It contains around 60 species, distributed over the warmer parts of the Americas, from the latitude of Buenos Aires to the Southern United States...
  
  macrophylla (Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....
  
  ) DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  

Loranthaceae

Loranthaceae

Loranthaceae is a family of flowering plants, which has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemi-parasites, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit...

• Phoradendron
  Phoradendron
  Phoradendron is a genus of mistletoes, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Americas. Traditionally, the genus has been placed in the family Viscaceae, but recent genetic research acknowledged by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group shows this family to be correctly placed within a larger...
  
  crassifolium (Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....
  
   & DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Eichler
  August W. Eichler
  August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...
  
  
• Phoradendron warmingii var. rugulosum (Urb.
  Ignatz Urban
  Ignatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
  
  ) Rizzini
• Psittacanthus
  Psittacanthus
  Psittacanthus is a plant genus in the family Loranthaceae.Species include:* Psittacanthus barlowii* Psittacanthus cupulifer* Psittacanthus flavo-viridis Eichler* Psittacanthus pluricotyledonarius Rizzini...
  
  flavo-viridis Eichler
  August W. Eichler
  August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...
  
  
• Psittacanthus pluricotyledonarius Rizzini
• Psittacanthus robustus (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Struthanthus
  Struthanthus
  Struthanthus is a genus of plant in family Loranthaceae. It contains the following species :* Struthanthus lojae, Kujit...
  
  concinnus Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Struthanthus marginatus (Desr.) Blume
  Carl Ludwig Blume
  Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
  
  
• Struthanthus salicifolius (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Struthanthus syringaefolius (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  

Magnoliaceae

Magnoliaceae

The Magnoliaceae, or Magnolia Family, is a flowering plant family in the order Magnoliales. It consists of two subfamilies:*Magnolioideae, of which Magnolia is the most well-known genus....

• Talauma
  Talauma
  Talauma is a genus of plant in family Magnoliaceae. It contains the following species :* Talauma dixonii, Little* Talauma neilii, Lozano...
  
  ovata A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  

Malpighiaceae

Malpighiaceae

Malpighiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. It comprises approximately 75 genera and 1300 species, all of which are native to the tropics and subtropics...

• Banisteriopsis membranifolia (A. Juss.) B. Gates
• Byrsonima
  Byrsonima
  Byrsonima is one of about 75 genera in the Malpighiaceae, a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. In particular in American English, they are known as locustberries...
  
  laevigata (Poir.) DC.
• Byrsonima laxiflora Griseb.
• Byrsonima myricifolia Griseb.
• Heteropteris anomala A. Juss. var. anomala
• Heteropteris leschenaultiana A. Juss.
• Heteropteris nitida (Lam.) DC.
• Heteropteris sericea (Cav.) A. Juss. var. sericea
• Hiraea
  Hiraea
  Hiraea is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Hiraea comprises over 55 species of woody vines and shrubs found in diverse habitats, except very dry vegetation types, in the New World tropics and subtropics from western Mexico to...
  
  gaudichaudiana (A. Juss.) A. Jsss.
• Stigmaphyllon
  Stigmaphyllon
  Stigmaphyllon is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales.-Distribution:Stigmaphyllon subg. Stigmaphyllon comprises 92 species of mostly twining woody vines or rarely shrubs native to the Neotropics from southern Mexico to northern...
  
  gayanum A. Juss
• Tetrapterys crebiflora A. Juss.
• Tetrapterys lalandiana A. Juss.
• Tetrapterys lucida A. Juss.

Malvaceae

Malvaceae

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...

• Abutilon
  Abutilon
  Abutilon is a large genus of approximately 150 species of broadleaf evergreens in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The genus includes annuals, perennials, shrubs, and small trees from 1–10 m tall, and is found in the tropical and subtropical regions of all continents. The leaves are alternate,...
  
  rufirnerve A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
   var. rufirnerve

Marantaceae

Marantaceae

The Marantaceae or arrowroot family is a family of flowering plants known for its large starchy rhizomes. It is sometimes called the prayer-plant family...

• Stromanthe
  Stromanthe
  Stromanthe is a genus of plant in family Marantaceae. It contains the following species :* Stromanthe ramosissima, L.Andersson* Stromanthe porteana* Stromanthe sanguinea...
  
  sanguinea Sond.
  Otto Wilhelm Sonder
  Otto Wilhelm Sonder was a German botanist and pharmacist who was a native of Holstein. From 1841 to 1878 he was the proprietor of a pharmacy in Hamburg. In 1846 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg.He was the author, with William Henry Harvey , of the Flora Capensis...
  
  

Marcgraviaceae

Marcgraviaceae

Marcgraviaceae is a neotropical angiosperm family in the order Ericales.The members of the family are shrubs, woody epiphytes and lianas with alternate, pinnately-nerved leaves. The flowers are arranged in racemes. The flowers are accompanied by modified, fleshy saccate bracts which produce nectar....

• Marcgravia
  Marcgravia
  Marcgravia is a genus of plant in family Marcgraviaceae, native to the Caribbean Islands, Central America, and South America.-Species:- References :* * *...
  
  polyantha Delpino
• Norantea cuneifolia (Gardner) Delpino

Melastomataceae

Melastomataceae

right|thumb|200px|Characteristic venation of many melastomesThe family Melastomataceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics comprising some 200 genera and 4500 species...

• Behuria glazioviana Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Behuria mouraei Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Bertolonia
  Bertolonia
  Bertolonia is a genus consisting of 14 species of pretty, dwarf, creeping, tender perennials, native to tropical South America. These herbacous plants are grown for their colorful, velvety, ornamental foliages, vary from shimmery white with purple, pink with purple, or bronze-green with carmine and...
  
  grazielae Baumgratz
• Bertolonia sanguinea var. santos-limae (Brade
  Alexander Curt Brade
  Alexander Curt Brade was a German botanist who specialized in the study of the orchids and ferns of Brazil. Brade also realized an important and early series of collections of the flora of Costa Rica between 1908 and 1910 with his brother Alfred, who lived in San Jose and owned a horticultural...
  
  ) Baumgratz
• Bisglaziovia behurioides Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Clidemia
  Clidemia
  Clidemia is a genus of flowering plants in the glory bush family, Melastomataceae. It contains about 450 species, the best known being C. hirta . The generic name honours Ancient Greek author Cleidemus.-Species:*C. ablusa...
  
  octona (Bonpl.) L. Wms.
• Henriettella
  Henriettella
  Henriettella is a genus of plant in family Melastomataceae.Species include:* Henriettella goudotiana, Naudin* Henriettella ininensis, Wurdack* Henriettella odorata, Markgr....
  
  glabra (Vell.) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Huberia glazioviana Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Huberia minor Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Huberia parvifolia Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Huberia triplinervis Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra
  Leandra
  Leandra is a genus of plant in family Melastomataceae.Species include:* Leandra pastazana, Wurdack* Leandra subseriata, Cogn....
  
  acutiflora (Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra amplexicaulis DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Leandra aspera Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra atroviridis Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra aurea (Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra breviflora Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra carassanae (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra confusa Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra dasytricha (A. Gray) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra eriocalyx Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra fallax (Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra foveolata (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra fragilis Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra gracilis var. glazioviana Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra hirta Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...
  
  
• Leandra hirtella Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra laevigata (Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra laxa Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra magdalenensis Brade
  Alexander Curt Brade
  Alexander Curt Brade was a German botanist who specialized in the study of the orchids and ferns of Brazil. Brade also realized an important and early series of collections of the flora of Costa Rica between 1908 and 1910 with his brother Alfred, who lived in San Jose and owned a horticultural...
  
  
• Leandra melastomoides Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...
  
  
• Leandra mollis Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra multiplinervis (Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra multisetosa Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra neurotricha Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra nianga Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra nutans Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra purpurascens Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra quinquedentata (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra schwackei Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra sphaerocarpa Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra tetragona Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra trauninensis Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra xanthocoma (Naudin.
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Leandra xanthostachya Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Marcetia taxifolia (A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  ) DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Meriania
  Meriania
  Meriania is a genus of plant in family Melastomataceae.Species include:* Meriania acostae, Wurdack* Meriania almedae, Wurdack* Meriania ampla, Wurdack* Meriania amplexicaulis, Wurdack* Meriania campii, Wurdack...
  
  claussenii Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  
• Meriania robusta Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia
  Miconia
  Miconia is a genus of flowering plants in the glory bush family, Melastomataceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas. The species are mostly shrubs and small to medium-sized trees up to 15 m tall...
  
  altissima Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia argyrea Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia augustii Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia brasiliensis (Spreng.) Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  
• Miconia brunnea DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Miconia budlejoides Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  
• Miconia chartacea Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  
• Miconia cinnamomifolia (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  
• Miconia depauperata Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Miconia dichroa Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia divaricata Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Miconia doriana Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia fasciculata Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Miconia formosa Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia gilva Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia glazioviana Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia jucunda (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  
• Miconia latecrenata (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  
• Miconia longicuspis Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia octopetala Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia organensis Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Miconia ovalifolia Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia molesta Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia paniculata (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  
• Miconia paulensis Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  
• Miconia penduliflora Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia prasina (Sw.
  Olof Swartz
  Olof Peter Swartz was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes...
  
  ) DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Miconia pseudo-eichlerii Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia pusilliflora (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  
• Miconia rabenii Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia saldanhaei var. grandiflora Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia sellowiana Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  
• Miconia staminea (Desr.) DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Miconia subvernicosa Cogn.
• Miconia theaezans (Bonpl.) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Miconia tristis Spring
  Antoine Frédéric Spring
  Antoine Frédéric Spring was a German-born, Belgian physician and botanist.Trained as a physician, he was a professor of physiology and pathology at the University of Liège. As a botanist he specialized in research of Lycopodiaceae and Selaginellaceae...
  
  
• Miconia urophylla DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Miconia willdenowii Klotzsch
  Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
  Johann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...
  
   ex Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin
  Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.-Biography:He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842...
  
  
• Mouriri
  Mouriri
  Mouriri is a genus of plant in family Melastomataceae.Species include:* Mouriri completens, Burret* Mouriri gleasoniana, Standl.* Mouriri laxiflora, Morley* Mouriri panamensis, Morley...
  
  arborea Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Mouriri chamissoana Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Mouriri doriana Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Ossaea
  Ossaea
  Ossaea is a genus of plant in family Melastomataceae. It contains the following species :* Ossaea boekei, Wurdack* Ossaea incerta, Wurdack* Ossaea palenquensis, Wurdack* Ossaea sparrei, Wurdack...
  
  angustifolia (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
   var. brevifolia Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Ossaea brachystachya (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  
• Ossaea confertiflora (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
  
• Pleiochiton micranthum Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Pleiochiton parvifolium Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Pleiochiton roseum Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Pleiochiton setulosum Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina
  Tibouchina
  Tibouchina is a genus of about 350 species of neotropical plants in the family Melastomataceae. They are trees, shrubs or subshrubs growing 0.5–25 m tall, and are known as glory bushes or glory trees. They are native to rainforests of Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America, especially Brazil...
  
  alba Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina arborea (Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina benthamiana var. punicea Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina canescens (D.Don
  David Don
  David Don was a Scottish botanist,David Don was born on December 21, 1799, at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland. He was the younger brother of George Don, also a botanist, their father being George Don of Forfar and his wife Caroline Clementina Stuart...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina estrellensis (Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi
  Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina fissinervia (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina imperatoris Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina moricandiana (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Baill.
  Henri Ernest Baillon
  Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
  
  
• Tibouchina nervulosa Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina ovata Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina petroniana Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina saldanhaei Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina schwackei Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Tibouchina semidecandra (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Trembleya parviflora (D.Don.) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  

Meliaceae

Meliaceae

The Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs in the order Sapindales....

• Cabralea canjerana (Vell.) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   subsp. canjerana
• Cedrela odorata
  Cedrela odorata
  Cedrela odorata . The genus Cedrela has undergone two major systematic revisions since 1960. The most recent revision reduced the number of species in the genus to seven . The common cedro, Cedrela odorata L., embraces 28 other named species, including C. mexicana M. J...
  
  L.
• Guarea
  Guarea
  Guarea is a genus of evergreen trees in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native to tropical Africa and Central and South America. They are large trees 20-45 m tall, with a trunk over 1 m trunk diameter, often buttressed at the base. The leaves are pinnate, with 4-6 pairs of leaflets, the terminal...
  
  macrophylla subsp. tuberculata (Vell.) T.D.Penn.
• Trichilia
  Trichilia
  Trichilia is a flowering plant genus in the family Meliaceae. These plants are particularly diverse in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America....
  
  casaretti
  Trichilia casaretti
  Trichilia casaretti is a species of plant in the Meliaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  C.DC.
  Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle
  Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist, the son of Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle....
  
  
• Trichilia emarginata
  Trichilia emarginata
  Trichilia emarginata is a species of plant in the Meliaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  (Turcz.
  Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow
  Porphir Kiril Nicolai Stepanowitsch Turczaninow was a Ukrainian-Russian botanist who first identified several genera, and many species of plants...
  
  ) C.DC.
  Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle
  Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist, the son of Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle....
  
  

Menispermaceae

Menispermaceae

Menispermaceae, the botanical name for a family of flowering plants, has been universally recognized by taxonomists. Tubocurare, a neuromuscular blocker and active ingredient in curare, is derived from plants of this family....

• Abuta
  Abuta
  Abuta is a genus in the flowering plant family Menispermaceae, of about 32 species, native to tropical Central and South America.-Description:...
  
  selloana Eichler
  August W. Eichler
  August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...
  
  
• Chondodendron platyphyllum (A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  ) Miers
  John Miers (botanist)
  John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
  
  

Mimosoideae

Mimosoideae

Mimosoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae characterized by flowers with small petals and numerous prominent stamens...

• Abarema
  Abarema
  Abarema is a neotropical genus of large trees in the legume family . They grow from Mexico to Bolivia. Most of the species can be found in the Amazon Basin and the Guyana Highlands. They have a deep-green fernlike foliage, with bipinnately compound leaves...
  
  langsdorfii
  Abarema langsdorfii
  Abarema langsdorfii is a species of legume of the genus Abarema in the Fabaceae family.-References: : Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and Allies. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 74: 1-292....
  
  (Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  ) Barneby
  Rupert Charles Barneby
  Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...
  
   & Grimes
  Grimes
  -United States:* Grimes, Alabama, a town* Grimes, California, a census-designated place* Grimes, Iowa, a city* Grimes Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa* Grimes, Virginia, an unincorporated community* Grimes County, Texas...
  
  
• Acacia
  Acacia
  Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not...
  
  lacerans Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Acacia martiusiana (Steud.
  Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
  Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was a German physician and an authority on grasses.Steudel lived in Esslingen where with Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter he organized Unio Itineraria.- References :...
  
  ) Burkart
• Calliandra
  Calliandra
  Calliandra is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Mimosoideae. It contains about 200 species that are native to tropical and subtropical regions of southern Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas.-Biological description:...
  
  tweediei
  Calliandra tweediei
  Calliandra tweediei is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the Fabaceae family.-References:*...
  
  Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Inga
  Inga
  Inga is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs, subfamily Mimosoideae. Ingas leaves are pinnate, and flowers are generally white...
  
  barbata Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Inga cylindrica (Vell.) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Inga dulcis (Vell.) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Inga lancifolia Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Inga lenticellata
  Inga lenticellata
  Inga lenticellata is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.It is found only in Brazil.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....
  
  Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Inga lentiscifolia
  Inga lentiscifolia
  Inga lentiscifolia is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.It is found only in Brazil.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....
  
  Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Inga leptantha
  Inga leptantha
  Inga leptantha is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.It is found only in Brazil.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....
  
  Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Inga marginata Willd. = Inga semialata (Vell.) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Inga mendoncaei
  Inga mendoncaei
  Inga mendoncaei is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.It is found only in Brazil.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....
  
  Harms = Inga organensis Pittier
  Henri François Pittier
  Henri François Pittier was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist, who moved to Costa Rica in 1887, where he founded the Physical Geographic Institute and an herbarium. Henri Pittier National Park in Venezuela is named after him.-References:...
  
  
• Inga platyptera
  Inga platyptera
  Inga platyptera is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.It is found only in Brazil.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....
  
  Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Inga sessilis (Vell.) Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Mimosa
  Mimosa
  Mimosa is a genus of about 400 species of herbs and shrubs, in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek word μιμος , meaning "mimic."...
  
  extensa Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Piptadenia
  Piptadenia
  Piptadenia a genus of tropical shrubs and trees of the legume family.-Selected species:*Piptadenia gonoacantha J.F. Macbr.*Piptadenia micracantha Benth.*Piptadenia paniculata Benth....
  
  gonoacantha (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) J. F. Macbr.
• Piptadenia micracantha Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  

Monimiaceae

Monimiaceae

Monimiaceae is a family of flowering plants, which includes 150-220 species of shrubs and small trees in 18-25 genera. They are native to the southern hemisphere tropics and subtropics. The largest genus is Tambourissa, with 50 species in Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, and the Comoros...

• Macropeplus ligustrinus var. friburgensis Perkins
• Mollinedia
  Mollinedia
  Mollinedia is a genus of plant in family Monimiaceae. It contains the following species :* Mollinedia argyrogyna, Perkins* Mollinedia butleriana, Standl.* Mollinedia engleriana, Perkins...
  
  acutissima Perkins
• Mollinedia argyrogyna
  Mollinedia argyrogyna
  Mollinedia argyrogyna is a species of plant in the Monimiaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Peixoto, A.L. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  Perkins
• Mollinedia engleriana
  Mollinedia engleriana
  Mollinedia engleriana is a species of plant in the Monimiaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Source:* Peixoto, A.L. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  Perkins
• Mollinedia fasciculata Perkins
• Mollinedia gilgiana
  Mollinedia gilgiana
  Mollinedia gilgiana is a species of plant in the Monimiaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Varty, N. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  Perkins
• Mollinedia glaziovii Perkins
• Mollinedia longicuspidata
  Mollinedia longicuspidata
  Mollinedia longicuspidata is a species of plant in the Monimiaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Source:* Varty, N. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  Perkins
• Mollinedia lowtheriana Perkins
• Mollinedia marliae Peixoto & V.Pereira
• Mollinedia myriantha Perkins
• Mollinedia oligantha Perkins
• Mollinedia pachysandra Perkins
• Mollinedia salicifolia Perkins
• Mollinedia schottiana (Spreng.) Perkins
• Mollinedia stenoplylla Perkins
• Siparuna
  Siparuna
  Siparuna is a genus of plants belonging to the family Siparunaceae. These aromatic evergreen trees and shrubs are found throughout the Neotropic ecozone...
  
  chlorantha Perkins

Moraceae

Moraceae

Moraceae — often called the mulberry family or fig family — are a family of flowering plants comprising about 40 genera and over 1000 species. Most are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less so in temperate climates...

• Cecropia
  Cecropia
  Cecropia is a Neotropical genus presently consisting of sixty-one recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees....
  
  cf.lyratiloba Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  
• Cecropia glaziovii Snethl.
• Cecropia hololeuca Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  
• Coussapoa microcarpa (Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
  ) Rizzini
• Ficus
  Ficus
  Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes, and hemiepiphyte in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone. The Common Fig Ficus is a genus of...
  
  luschnathiana (Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  ) Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  
• Ficus organensis (Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  ) Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  
• Ficus trigona L.f.
  Carolus Linnaeus the Younger
  Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger was a Swedish naturalist...
  
  
• Sorocea
  Sorocea
  Sorocea is a genus of plant in family Moraceae.Species include:* Sorocea guilleminiana, Gaudichaud* Sorocea sarcocarpa, Lanj. & Wess. Boer...
  
  bonplandii (Baill.
  Henri Ernest Baillon
  Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
  
  ) W.C.Burger & Alii

Myristicaceae

Myristicaceae

Myristicaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists; it is sometimes called the "nutmeg family", after its most famous member, Nutmeg ....

• Virola
  Virola
  Virola, also known as Epená, Patricá, or Cumala, is a genus of medium-sized trees native to the South American rainforest and closely related to other Myristicaceae, such as nutmeg...
  
  gardneri (A.DC.) Warb.
  Otto Warburg (botanist)
  Otto Warburg , was a German botanist and industrial agriculture expert, as well as an active member of the Zionist Organization...
  
  

Myrsinaceae

Myrsinaceae

Myrsinaceae, or the Myrsine family, is a rather large family from the order Ericales. It consists of 35 genera and about 1000 species....

• Cybianthus brasiliensis (Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  ) G.Agostini
• Cybianthus glaber A.DC.
• Rapanea
  Rapanea
  Rapanea is a genus of plant in family Myrsinaceae.Species include:* Rapanea acuminata* Rapanea allenii Lundell, Central & South America* Rapanea ceylanica Mez, Sri Lanka endemic* Rapanea coclensis Lundell, Panama endemic...
  
  acuminata Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Rapanea ferruginea (Ruiz
  Hipólito Ruiz López
  Hipólito Ruiz López , or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
  
   & Pav.
  José Antonio Pavón Jiménez
  José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Rapanea guianensis Aubl.
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
  
  
• Rapanea lancifolia Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Rapanea schwackeana Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Rapanea umbellata (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  

Myrtaceae

Myrtaceae

The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here. All species are woody, with essential oils, and flower parts in multiples of four or five...

• Calycorectes
  Calycorectes
  Calycorectes is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae. It contains the following species :* Calycorectes australis, D.Legrand* Calycorectes duarteanus, D.Legrand* Calycorectes schottianus, Berg...
  
  schottianus
  Calycorectes schottianus
  Calycorectes schottianus is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Source:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....
  
  O.Berg
  Otto Karl Berg
  Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....
  
  
• Calyptranthes concinna DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Calyptranthes glazioviana Kiaersk.
• Calyptranthes lucida Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   ex DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Calyptranthes obovata Kiaersk.
• Campomanesia
  Campomanesia
  Campomanesia is a genus of the botanical family Myrtaceae.Selected species* Campomanesia adamantium Blume*Campomanesia phaea*Campomanesia pubescens O.Berg*Campomanesia velutina O.Berg-External links:...
  
  guaviroba (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Kiaersk.
• Campomanesia laurifolia
  Campomanesia laurifolia
  Campomanesia laurifolia is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....
  
  Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Eugenia
  Eugenia
  Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,000 species occur in the New World tropics, especially in the northern Andes, the Caribbean, and the...
  
  cambucarana Kiaersk.
• Eugenia cuprea (O.Berg
  Otto Karl Berg
  Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....
  
  ) Nied.
  Franz Josef Niedenzu
  Franz Josef Niedenzu was a German botanist born in Köppernig. For most of his career he was a professor and subsequently rector at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg, East Prussia...
  
  
• Eugenia curvato-petiolata Kiaersk.
• Eugenia ellipsoidea Kiaersk.
• Eugenia gracillima Kiaersk.
• Eugenia stictosepala Kiaersk.
• Eugenia subavenia O.Berg
  Otto Karl Berg
  Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....
  
  
• Gomidesia
  Gomidesia
  Gomidesia is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae.Species include:* Gomidesia cambessedeana, Berg* Gomidesia mugnifolia, Berg...
  
  glazioviana (Kiaersk.) D.Legrand
• Gomidesia lindeniana O. Berg
• Gomidesia riedeliana O. Berg
• Gomidesia spectabilis (DC.) O. Berg
• Gomidesia warmingiana (Kiaersk.) D. Legrand
• Marlierea
  Marlierea
  Marlierea is a genus of the botanical family Myrtaceae.Species include:*Marlierea sintenisii...
  
  Marlierea aff.teuscheriana (O. Berg.) D. Legrand
• Marlierea mar 'tinelii G. M. Barroso & Peixoto
• Marlierea silvatica (Gardner) Kiaersk.
• Marlierea
  Marlierea
  Marlierea is a genus of the botanical family Myrtaceae.Species include:*Marlierea sintenisii...
  
  suaveolens Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Myrceugenia
  Myrceugenia
  Myrceugenia is a genus of evergreen woody flowering trees and shrubs belonging to the Myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus is native to South America from southeast Brazil south to southern Chile; it is closely related to the genus Luma; some botanists include Myrceugenia in that genus.Two species...
  
  kleinii
  Myrceugenia kleinii
  Myrceugenia kleinii is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Source:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  D.Legrand & Kausel
• Myrceugenia pilotantha
  Myrceugenia pilotantha
  Myrceugenia pilotantha is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Source:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  (Kiaersk.) Landrum
  Leslie R. Landrum
  Leslie Roger Landrum is an American botanist, currently serving as Senior Research Scientist at Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, and curator of the ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium. He attained M.S. and Ph.D...
  
  
• Myrceugenia scutellata
  Myrceugenia scutellata
  Myrceugenia scutellata is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Source:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  D. Legrand
• Myrcia
  Myrcia
  Myrcia is a genus of the flowering plant family Myrtaceae.Selected species* Myrcia albobrunnea* Myrcia albo-tomentosa DC.* Myrcia almasensis* Myrcia bella Cambess.* Myrcia calcicola...
  
  coelosepala Kiaersk.
• Myrcia fallax (Rich.
  Louis Claude Richard
  Louis Claude Marie Richard was a French botanist.Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies...
  
  ) DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Myrcia glabra (O.Berg
  Otto Karl Berg
  Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....
  
  ) D.Legrand
• Myrcia guajavifolia O.Berg
  Otto Karl Berg
  Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....
  
  
• Myrcia laruotteana Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Myrcia lineata
  Myrcia lineata
  Myrcia lineata is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-References:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  (O. Berg) G. M. Barroso & Peixoto
• Myrcia longipes (O. Berg) Kiaersk.
• Myrcia multiflora (Lam.
  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
  
  ) DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Myrcia pubipetala Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  
• Myrcia rhabdoides Kiaersk.
• Myrcia rufula Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  
• Myrcia tomentosa (Aubl.
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
  
  ) DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Myrciaria
  Myrciaria
  Myrciaria is a genus of large shrubs and small trees native to South America, especially Brazil. Common names include Jaboticaba, Jabuticaba, Guaperu, Guapuru, Hivapuru, Sabará, and Ybapuru....
  
  floribunda (H. West. ex Willd.) O. Berg –Guavaberry
  Guavaberry
  The guavaberry or rumberry is a fruit tree which grows in the Caribbean. The guavaberry, which should not be confused with the guava, is a close relative of Camu Camu....
  
  
• Myrciaria tenella (DC.) O. Berg
• Pimenta seudocaryophyllus var. fulvescens (DC.) Landrum
• Plinia
  Plinia
  Plinia is a genus of the botanical family Myrtaceae.Species include:*Plinia edulis*Plinia rupestris...
  
  martinellii G. M. Barroso & M. Peron
• Psidium guineense Sw.
• Psidium robustum O. Berg
• Psidium spathulatum Mattos
• Siphoneugena densiflora O. Berg
• Siphoneugena kiaerskoviana (Burret) Kausel

Nyctaginaceae

Nyctaginaceae

Nyctaginaceae, the Four O'Clock Family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions...

• Guapira
  Guapira
  Guapira is a genus of plant in family Nyctaginaceae. It contains the following species :* Guapira myrtiflora, Little* Guapira rotundifolia, Lundell...
  
  opposita (Vell.) Reitz
  Reitz
  Reitz is a small maize, wheat and cattle farming town located in the east of the Free State province of South Africa.- Economy and Farming :The town has one of the largest maize silos in the southern hemisphere and is a major maize growing community....
  
  

Ochnaceae

Ochnaceae

The family Ochnaceae, or wild plane family, comprises mainly trees or shrubs, and more rarely herbaceous plants. Species of the Ochnaceae are found from subtropical to tropical regions. They are best represented in South America...

• Luxemburgia glazioviana Beauverd
• Ouratea
  Ouratea
  Ouratea is a genus of flowering plants in the wild plane family .Species include:* Ouratea amplectens* Ouratea boliviana Van Tieghem* Ouratea brevicalyx* Ouratea cocleensis* Ouratea confertiflora Engl....
  
  parviflora (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Baill.
  Henri Ernest Baillon
  Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
  
  
• Ouratea vaccinioides (A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  ) Engl.

Oleaceae

Oleaceae

Oleaceae are a family containing 24 extant genera and around 600 species of mesophytic shrubs, trees and occasionally vines. As shrubs, members of this family may be twine climbers, or scramblers.-Leaves:...

• Linociera micrantha Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  

Onagraceae

Onagraceae

Onagraceae, also known as the Willowherb family or Evening Primrose family, are a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 640-650 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in 20-24 genera...

• Fuchsia
  Fuchsia
  Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1703 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier...
  
  glazioviana Taub.
• Fuchsia regia subsp. serrae P.E.Berry

Orchidaceae

Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae, commonly referred to as the orchid family, is a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales. Along with the Asteraceae, it is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species,...

• Barbosella
  Barbosella
  Barbosella is a genus of mostly creeping orchids. The genus has about 20 species, widespread from Central America to Brazil. Named after João Barbosa Rodrigues, an investigator of Brazilian orchids, they have single flowers with a unique lip base that works like a ball and...
  
  porschii (Kraenzl.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin
  Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin In the history of the European study of South African orchids, Fritz Kränzlin appears after Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach describing many new orchids in the region, and revising some of the genera...
  
  ) Schltr.
• Beadlea warmingii (Rchb.f.
  Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
  Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century...
  
  ) Gara
  Gara
  Gara is a bilingual newspaper published in the city of San Sebastián in the Basque Autonomous Community...
  
  y
• Chytroglossa
  Chytroglossa
  Chytroglossa is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae.- Species :* Chytroglossa aurata Rchb.f. * Chytroglossa marileoniae Rchb.f. - type species -* Chytroglossa paulensis Edwall...
  
  marileoniae Rchb.f.
  Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
  Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century...
  
  
• Dichaea
  Dichaea
  Dichaea is a genus of plant in family Orchidaceae. It contains about 100 species native to tropical America....
  
  pendula (Aubl.
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
  
  ) Cogn.
  Alfred Cogniaux
  Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
  
  
• Epidendrum
  Epidendrum
  Epidendrum , abbreviated Epi in horticultural trade, is a large neotropical genus of the orchid family. With more than 1,100 species, some authors describe it as a mega-genus. The genus name refers to its epiphytic growth habit...
  
  addae Pabst
  Pabst
  Pabst may refer to:*Pabst Brewing Company, brewing company once owned by Frederick Pabst*Pabst Blue Ribbon, a notable beer owned by the Pabst Brewing Company*Pabst Brewery Complex, the facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that was closed in 1997...
  
  
• Epidendrum paranaense Barb.Rodr.
  João Barbosa Rodrigues
  João Barbosa Rodrigues was a Brazilian botanist and engineer.He was born in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí and raised in Campanha, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1858. He first dedicated to the commerce, but he was always interested in natural...
  
  
• Epidendrum saxatile Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  
• Epidendrum xanthinum Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  
• Gomesa
  Gomesa
  Gomesa is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae.- References :*Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. . Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press....
  
  recurva Lodd.
  Loddiges
  The Loddiges family managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, palms and orchids into European gardens....
  
  
• Maxillaria
  Maxillaria
  Maxillaria, abbreviated as Max in horticultural trade, is a large genus of orchids . This is a diverse genus, with very different morphological forms. Their characteristics can vary widely....
  
  cerifera Barb.Rodr.
  João Barbosa Rodrigues
  João Barbosa Rodrigues was a Brazilian botanist and engineer.He was born in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí and raised in Campanha, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1858. He first dedicated to the commerce, but he was always interested in natural...
  
  
• Maxillaria ubatubana var. mantiqueirana Hoehne
• Miltonia
  Miltonia
  Miltonia, abbreviated Milt. in the horticultural trade, is an orchid genus formed by nine epiphyte species and eight natural hybrids inhabitants of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, one species reaching the northeast of Argentina and east of Paraguay. This genus was established by John Lindley in...
  
  cuneata
  Miltonia cuneata
  Miltonia cuneata, the Wedge-shaped Miltonia, is a species of orchid endemic to southeastern Brazil....
  
  Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  
• Oncidium
  Oncidium
  Oncidium, abbreviated as Onc. in the horticultural trade, is a genus that contains about 330 species of orchids from the subtribe Oncidiinae of the orchid family . This is a complex, difficult genus, with many species being reclassified...
  
  cf.hookeri Rolfe
  Robert Allen Rolfe
  Robert Allen Rolfe was a British botanist specializing in the study of orchids. He was the first curator of the orchid herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, founded the magazine The Orchid Review,and published many papers on hybrids of different species of orchids.The genus Allenrolfea of...
  
  
• Oncidium uniflorum
  Oncidium uniflorum
  Oncidium uniflorum is a species of orchid endemic to southern and southeastern Brazil....
  
  Booth
  Booth
  -In architecture:* Isolation booth, device used to prevent a person or people from seeing or hearing certain events* Photo booth, vending machine or kiosk which contains an automated camera and film processor...
  
  ex Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  
• Pabstia
  Pabstia
  Pabstia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae.- References :*Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. . Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press....
  
  jugosa (Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  ) Garay
  Garay
  Garai is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.-External links:*...
  
  
• Pabstia triptera (Rolfe
  Robert Allen Rolfe
  Robert Allen Rolfe was a British botanist specializing in the study of orchids. He was the first curator of the orchid herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, founded the magazine The Orchid Review,and published many papers on hybrids of different species of orchids.The genus Allenrolfea of...
  
  ) Garay
  Garay
  Garai is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.-External links:*...
  
  
• Phymatidium
  Phymatidium
  Phymatidium is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae.- References :*Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. . Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press....
  
  aquinoi Schltr.
• Phymatidium delicatulum Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  
• Phymatidium falcifolium Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  
• Phymatidium tillandsoides Barb.Rodr.
  João Barbosa Rodrigues
  João Barbosa Rodrigues was a Brazilian botanist and engineer.He was born in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí and raised in Campanha, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1858. He first dedicated to the commerce, but he was always interested in natural...
  
  
• Pleurothallis aff.hamosa Barb.Rodr.
  João Barbosa Rodrigues
  João Barbosa Rodrigues was a Brazilian botanist and engineer.He was born in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí and raised in Campanha, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1858. He first dedicated to the commerce, but he was always interested in natural...
  
  
• Pleurothallis trifida Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  
• Prescottia epiphyta Barb.Rodr.
  João Barbosa Rodrigues
  João Barbosa Rodrigues was a Brazilian botanist and engineer.He was born in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí and raised in Campanha, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1858. He first dedicated to the commerce, but he was always interested in natural...
  
  
• Rodrigueziopsis
  Rodrigueziopsis
  Rodrigueziopsis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae.- References :*Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. . Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press....
  
  microphyta (Barb.Rodr.
  João Barbosa Rodrigues
  João Barbosa Rodrigues was a Brazilian botanist and engineer.He was born in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí and raised in Campanha, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1858. He first dedicated to the commerce, but he was always interested in natural...
  
  ) Schltr.
• Scaphyglottis
  Scaphyglottis
  Scaphyglottis is a genus of orchids native to Central America, northern South America and parts of the Caribbean. The current concept of this genus is the result of combining several genera which have been described at various times...
  
  modesta
  Scaphyglottis modesta
  Scaphyglottis modesta is a species of orchid native to the Neotropics....
  
  (Rchb.f.
  Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
  Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century...
  
  ) Schltr.
• Sophronitis aff.grandiflora Lindl.
  John Lindley
  John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
  
  
• Sophronitis aff.mantiqueirae (Fowlie) Fowlie
• Zygopetalum
  Zygopetalum
  Zygopetalum , is a genus of the orchid family , consisting of fourteen species....
  
  crinitum
  Zygopetalum crinitum
  Zygopetalum crinitum is a species of orchid native to southeastern and southern Brazil....
  
  Lodd.
  Loddiges
  The Loddiges family managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, palms and orchids into European gardens....
  
  
• Zygopetalum triste Barb.Rodr.
  João Barbosa Rodrigues
  João Barbosa Rodrigues was a Brazilian botanist and engineer.He was born in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí and raised in Campanha, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1858. He first dedicated to the commerce, but he was always interested in natural...
  
  

Passifloraceae

Passifloraceae

Passifloraceae is a family of flowering plants, containing about 530 species classified in around 18 genera. They include trees, shrubs, lianas and climbing plants, and are mostly found in tropical regions....

• Passiflora actinia
  Passiflora actinia
  Passiflora actinia species of passion flower of the Passifloraceae. It flowers mainly in early spring.P. actinia is an evergreen vine. Its fruit is edible....
  
  Hook.
  William Jackson Hooker
  Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
  
  
• Passiflora alata
  Passiflora alata
  Passiflora alata, the winged-stem passion flower, is a vine which bears an edible type of passion fruit. It is native to the Amazon region of Brazil. The native peoples living in areas where the plant thrives refer to it as "ouvaca," meaning "red star" due to the appearance of its flower...
  
  Dryand.
  Jonas Carlsson Dryander
  Jonas Carlsson Dryander was a Swedish botanist.Dryander was born in Gothenburg. He was a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University. He arrived in London on 10 July 1777...
  
  
• Passiflora amethystina J.C.Mikan
• Passiflora deidamioides Harms
• Passiflora odontophylla Harms ex Glaz.
• Passiflora organensis Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Passiflora rhamnifolia Mast.
  Maxwell T. Masters
  Maxwell Tylden Masters was an English botanist and taxonomist. He was educated at King's College London and the University of St Andrews...
  
  
• Passiflora speciosa Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Passiflora vellozii Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  

Phytolaccaceae

Phytolaccaceae

Phytolaccaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been almost universally recognized by taxonomists, although its circumscription has varied. It is also known as the Pokeweed family....

• Phytolacca thyrsiflora Fenzl ex J.A.Schmidt.
• Seguieria langsdorffii Moq.

Piperaceae

Piperaceae

The Piperaceae, also known as the pepper family, is a large family of flowering plants. The group contains roughly 3,610 currently accepted species in five genera. The vast majority of peppers can be found within the two main genera: Piper and Peperomia .Members of the Piperaceae may be small...

• Ottonia diversifolia Kunth
• Peperomia
  Peperomia
  Peperomia is one of the 2 large genera of the Piperaceae family, with more than 1000 recorded species. Most of them are compact, small perennial epiphytes growing on rotten wood. More than 1500 species have been recorded, occurring in all tropical and subtropical regions of the world, though...
  
  alata Ruiz & Pav.
• Peperomia corcovadensis Gardner
• Peperomia glabella (Sw.) A. Dietr.
• Peperomia lyman-smithii Yunck.
• Peperomia rhombea Ruiz & Pav.
• Peperomia rotundifolia (L.) H. B. & K.
• Peperomia tetraphylla
  Peperomia tetraphylla
  Peperomia tetraphylla, known as the four-leaved Peperomia is a small plant in the pepper family that grows in Australia, Asia, Africa, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, and other islands in the Pacific Ocean. In New South Wales, it is often seen as an epiphyte or growing on rocks in rainforests. Tiny...
  
  (G. Forst.) Hook. & Arn.
• Piper aequilaterum C. DC.
• Piper caldense C. DC.
• Piper chimonanthifolium Kunth
• Piper gaudichaudianum Kunth
• Piper glabratum Kunth
• Piper hillianum C. DC.
• Piper lhotzkyanum Kunth
• Piper malacophyllum (C. Presl) C. DC.
• Piper permucronatum Yunck.
• Piper pseudopothifolium C. DC.
• Piper richardiifolium Kunth
• Piper tectonifolium Kunth
• Piper translucens Yunck.
• Piper truncatum Vell.

Poaceae

Poaceae

The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...

• Chusquea
  Chusquea
  Chusquea is a genus of bamboo with about 150 species. Most of them are mountain clumping bamboos native from southern Mexico to southern Chile and Argentina. They are sometimes referred to as South American mountain bamboos. Unlike most other bamboos, the stems of these species are solid, not hollow...
  
  aff. oxylepis (Hack.
  Eduard Hackel
  Eduard Hackel was an Austrian botanist. His father was a veterinary in Haida. He was married and had one son....
  
  ) Ekman
  Erik Leonard Ekman
  Erik Leonard Ekman was a Swedish botanist and explorer .- Biography :Erik Leonard Ekman was born into a low-income household with five children on October 14, 1883. Due to economic difficulties, the family moved to the central-Swedish town of Jönköping when he was eleven...
  
  
• Chusquea aff. tenella Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  
• Chusquea anelytroides Rupr.
  Franz Josef Ruprecht
  Franz Josef Ruprecht was an Austrian-born physician and botanist active in Russia, where he was known as Frants Ivanovič Ruprekt . He grew up, studied, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1836 in Prague...
  
   ex Döll
• Chusquea capitata Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  
• Chusquea capituliflora Trin.
  Carl Bernhard von Trinius
  Carl Bernhard von Trinius was a German-born botanist.Trinius was a specialist in grasses and described many species in his career including Agrostis pallens, Cenchrus agrimonioides and Festuca subulata....
  
  
• Guadua
  Guadua
  Guadua is a Neotropics genus of thorny clumping bamboo, ranging from moderate to very large species. Physically, Guadua angustifolia is noted for being the largest Neotropics bamboo. The genus is similar to Bambusa and is sometimes included in Bambusa...
  
  tagoara (Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  ) Kunth
  Carl Sigismund Kunth
  Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...
  
  
• Merostachys
  Merostachys
  Merostachys is a genus of bamboo . It comprises about 40 species, found in South America and Central America....
  
  aff. ternata Nees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
  
• Merostachys fischeriana Rupr.
  Franz Josef Ruprecht
  Franz Josef Ruprecht was an Austrian-born physician and botanist active in Russia, where he was known as Frants Ivanovič Ruprekt . He grew up, studied, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1836 in Prague...
  
   ex Döll

Polygalaceae

Polygalaceae

The Polygalaceae or Milkwort family is a family of flowering plants in the order Fabales. They have a near-cosmopolitan range, with about 17 genera and 900–1,000 species of herbs, shrubs and trees...

• Polygala
  Polygala
  Polygala is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Polygalaceae, commonly known as milkwort or snakeroot...
  
  laureola A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
   & Moq.
• Polygala oxyphylla DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Securidaca
  Securidaca
  Securidaca is a genus of plant in family Polygalaceae. It contains the following species :*Securidaca acuminata*Securidaca affinis*Securidaca amazonica*Securidaca angustifolia...
  
  macrocarpa A.W.Benn.

Polygonaceae

Polygonaceae

Polygonaceae is a family of flowering plants known informally as the "knotweed family" or "smartweed family"— "buckwheat family" in the United States. The name is based on the genus Polygonum and was first used by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 in his book, Genera Plantarum. The name refers...

• Ruprechtia
  Ruprechtia
  Ruprechtia is a genus of plant in family Polygonaceae. It contains the following species :* Ruprechtia apetala, Weddell* Ruprechtia howardiana* Ruprechtia tangarana...
  
  laxiflora Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  

Proteaceae

Proteaceae

Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...

• Roupala
  Roupala
  Roupala is a genus of plant in family Proteaceae. It contains the following species :* Roupala brachybotrys, I.M. Johnst.* Roupala loxensis, I.M. Johnst.* Roupala pinnata, Diels...
  
  consimilis Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Roupala longepetiolata Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....
  
  
• Roupala rhombifolia Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   ex Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  
• Roupala warmingii Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  

Quiinaceae

Quiinaceae

Quiinaceae Engl. is a neotropical family of flowering plants in the Malpighiales, consisting of about 50 species in 4 genera . The APG III system of flowering plant classification does not recognize such a family, instead including these genera in the Ochnaceae family.- External links :* in ...

• Quiina
  Quiina
  Quiina is a genus of plant in family Ochnaceae. It contains the following species :* Quiina colonensis, D'Arcy* Quiina jamaicensis, Griseb.* Quiina schippii...
  
  glaziovii Engl.

Ranunculaceae

Ranunculaceae

Ranunculaceae are a family of about 1700 species of flowering plants in about 60 genera, distributed worldwide....

• Clematis
  Clematis
  Clematis is a genus of about 300 species within the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Their garden hybrids have been popular among gardeners beginning with Clematis × jackmanii, a garden standby since 1862; more hybrid cultivars are being produced constantly. They are mainly of Chinese and Japanese...
  
  dioica var. australis Eichler
  August W. Eichler
  August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...
  
  
• Clematis dioica var. brasiliana (DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  ) Eichler
  August W. Eichler
  August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...
  
  

Rosaceae

Rosaceae

Rosaceae are a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including about 2830 species in 95 genera. The name is derived from the type genus Rosa. Among the largest genera are Alchemilla , Sorbus , Crataegus , Cotoneaster , and Rubus...

• Prunus
  Prunus
  Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds. There are around 430 species spread throughout the northern temperate regions of the globe. Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for fruit and ornament.-Botany:Members of the genus...
  
  brasiliensis Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
   ex Spreng.
• Rubus
  Rubus
  Rubus is a large genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae. Raspberries, blackberries, and dewberries are common, widely distributed members of the genus. Most of these plants have woody stems with prickles like roses; spines, bristles, and gland-tipped hairs are...
  
  urticaefolius Poir.
  Jean Louis Marie Poiret
  Jean Louis Marie Poiret was a French clergyman, botanist and explorer.From 1785 to 1786 he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora...
  
  

Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae

The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...

• Alibertia longiflora K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  
• Amaioua
  Amaioua
  Amaioua is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Jean Baptiste Aublet in 1775. The genus is found from Mexico to tropical America.-Species:* Amaioua brevidentata Steyerm.* Amaioua contracta Standl....
  
  intermedia Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Bathysa
  Bathysa
  Bathysa is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found from Panama to southern tropical America.-Species:* Bathysa australis K.Schum.* Bathysa bathysoides Delprete...
  
  australis (A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  ) Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
   & Hook.f.
  Joseph Dalton Hooker
  Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
  
  
• Bathysa cuspidata (A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  ) Hook.f.
  Joseph Dalton Hooker
  Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
  
  
• Bathysa mendocaei K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  
• Chomelia brasiliana
• Chomelia estrellana Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Coccocypselum
  Coccocypselum
  Coccocypselum is a genus of about 35 species of flowering plants in the family , distributed throughout the tropics of the Americas...
  
  lanceolatum (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.
• Coccocypselum sessiliflorum Standl.
• Coussarea congestiflora Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Coussarea friburgensis M. Gomes
• Coussarea speciosa K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
   ex. Glaz.
• Coutarea hexandra (Jacq.
  Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
  Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
  
  ) K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  
• Diodia alataNees
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
   & Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Emmeorrhiza umbellata (Spreng.) K.Schum.
• Faramea
  Faramea
  Faramea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae.Species include:* F. angusta C. M. Taylor* F. biflora J. G. Jardim & Zappi* F. capillipes* F. exemplaris Standl.* F. hymenocalyx M. Gomes* F. nocturna J. G. Jardim & Zappi...
  
  dichotoma K.Schum. ex M.Gomes
• Faramea multiflora var. salicifolia (C. Presl.) Steyerm.
• Faramea urophylla Müll.Arg.
• Galium hypocarpium subsp. indecorum (Cham. & Schltdl.) Dempster
• Hillia
  Hillia
  Hillia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has 24 species. All are indigenous to tropical America.Most of the species are slightly succulent epiphytes or small trees. A few are subshrubs or lianas. Hillia rivalis is a rheophyte. The tissues of all the species contain...
  
  parasitica Jacq.
  Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
  Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
  
  
• Hindsia
  Hindsia
  Hindsia is a genus of about 11 species of shrubs in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South America, mainly inBrazil.Species*Hindsia arianeae*Hindsia cucullata*Hindsia glabra*Hindsia ibitipocensis*Hindsia irwinii...
  
  longiflora (Cham.) Benth.
• Hoffmannia
  Hoffmannia
  Hoffmannia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Hoffmannia ecuatoriana, Standl.* Hoffmannia modesta, Diels...
  
  duseniiStandl.
  Paul Carpenter Standley
  Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
  
  
• Ixora
  Ixora
  Ixora is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It consists of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs and holds around 500 species. Though native to the tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, its centre of diversity is in Tropical Asia. Ixora also grows commonly in...
  
  brevifolia Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Manettia
  Manettia
  Manettia is a genus of about 80 species of lianas and twining herbs in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical America.Selected species*Manettia cordifolia *Manettia luteorubra...
  
  beyrichiana K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  
• Manettia congesta (Vell.) K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  
• Manettia fimbriata Cham. & Schltdl.
• Manettia mitis (Vell.) K. Schum.
• Posoqueria acutifolia Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Posoqueria latifolia (Rudge) Roem. & Schult.
• Psychotria alto-macahensis M.Gomes
• Psychotria appendiculata Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Psychotria brachyanthema Standl.
  Paul Carpenter Standley
  Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
  
  
• Psychotria caudata M.Gomes
• Psychotria constricta Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Psychotria leiocarpa Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
   & Schltdl.
  Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
  
  
• Psychotria nemerosa Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Psychotria nitidula Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
   & Schltdl.
  Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
  
  
• Psychotria pallens Gardner
  George Gardner (botanist)
  George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...
  
  
• Psychotria pubigera Schltdl.
  Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
  
  
• Psychotria ruelliifolia (Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
   & Schltdl.
  Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
  
  ) Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Psychotria stachyoides Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Psychotria suterella Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Psychotria ulei Standl.
• Psychotria vellosiana Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Randia
  Randia (plant)
  Randia, commonly known as indigoberry, is a mostly neotropical genus of shrubs or small trees in the Rubiaceae. The International Plant Names Index lists a total of 738 names for the genus, synonyms included. Several Australian species have been reassigned to the genus Atractocarpus. These include...
  
  armata (Sw.
  Olof Swartz
  Olof Peter Swartz was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes...
  
  ) DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Rudgea
  Rudgea
  Rudgea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae.Species include:* Rudgea crassifolia, Zappi & E.Lucas* Rudgea microcarpa, Standl.* Rudgea obesiflora, Standl.* Rudgea stenophylla, Standl....
  
  corniculata Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
  
• Rudgea eugenioides Standl.
  Paul Carpenter Standley
  Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...
  
  
• Rudgea insignis Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Rudgea leiocarpoides Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Rudgea nobilis Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Rudgea recurva Müll.Arg.
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
  
• Rustia
  Rustia
  Rustia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Rustia alba, Delprete* Rustia bilsana, Delprete* Rustia viridiflora, Delprete...
  
  gracilis K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  
• Tocoyena
  Tocoyena
  Tocoyena is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Tocoyena pittieri, Standl....
  
  sellowiana (Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
   & Schltdl.
  Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
  
  ) K.Schum.
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
  

Rutaceae

Rutaceae

Rutaceae, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, is a family of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents...

• Dictyoloma incanescens DC.
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
  
  
• Zanthoxylum
  Zanthoxylum
  Zanthoxylum is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue family, Rutaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. Common names include Prickly-ash and Hercules' Club.The fruit of several species are used to make the spice...
  
  rhoifolium Lam.
  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
  
   (= Fagara rhoifolia (Lam.
  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
  
  ) Engl.)

Sabiaceae

Sabiaceae

Sabiaceae is a family of flowering plants, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern Asia and the Americas.In the Cronquist system the family was placed in the order Ranunculales, but more recent classifications place it as the sole family in the order Sabiales, or , as unplaced to...

• Meliosma
  Meliosma
  Meliosma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sabiaceae, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern and eastern Asia and the Americas. It is traditionally considered to contain about 100 species; some botanists take a much more conservative view accepting only 20-25 species as...
  
  brasiliensis Urb.
  Ignatz Urban
  Ignatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
  
  
• Meliosma sellowii Urb.
  Ignatz Urban
  Ignatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...
  
  

Sapindaceae

Sapindaceae

Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales. There are about 140-150 genera with 1400-2000 species, including maple, horse chestnut and lychee....

• Allophylus
  Allophylus
  Allophylus is a genus of plants in the family Sapindaceae. This list of species is incomplete:* Allophylus agbala Hauman* Allophylus aldabricus Radlk.* Allophylus bullatus Radlk.* Allophylus chirindensis Baker f....
  
  edulis
  Allophylus edulis
  Allophylus edulis is a plant species in the genus Allophylus endemic to the Guianas, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.Quebrachitol is a cyclitol, a cyclic polyol found in A. edulis....
  
  (A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  ) Radlk.
  Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
  Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer , was a noted Bavarian taxonomist and botanist, who was Professor of Botany at the University of Munich....
  
  
• Cupania
  Cupania
  Cupania is a plant genus in the family Sapindaceae.-List of species:* C. alternifolia* C. americana* C. glabra* C. guatemalensis* C. vernalis-See also:* List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil...
  
  emarginata Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Cupania oblongifolia Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  
• Cupania racemosa (Vell.) Radlk.
  Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
  Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer , was a noted Bavarian taxonomist and botanist, who was Professor of Botany at the University of Munich....
  
  
• Cupania zanthoxyloides Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Matayba guianensis Aublet
• Paullinia
  Paullinia
  Paullinia is a genus of flowering shrubs, small trees and lianas in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, native to tropical South America, Central America and the Caribbean....
  
  carpopoda Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Paullinia meliaefolia Juss.
  Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
  Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.-Life:...
  
  
• Paullinia trigonia Vell.
• Serjania
  Serjania
  Serjania is a genus of flowering plants in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. The name honours either French monk Philippe Sergeant or French friar Paul Serjeant.-Selected species:-Formerly placed here:...
  
  communis Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
   var. communis
• Serjania elegans Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Serjania gracilis Radlk.
  Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
  Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer , was a noted Bavarian taxonomist and botanist, who was Professor of Botany at the University of Munich....
  
  
• Serjania laruotteana Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Serjania lethalis A.St.-Hil.
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  
• Serjania noxia Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Serjania reticulata Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  
• Thinouia scandens (Cambess.
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
  ) Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
   & Planch.
  Jules Émile Planchon
  Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent...
  
  

Sapotaceae

Sapotaceae

Sapotaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Ericales. The family includes approximately 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in approximately 65 genera . Distribution is pantropical....

• Chrysophyllum
  Chrysophyllum
  Chrysophyllum is a genus of about 70-80 species of tropical trees, growing rapidly to 10–20 m or more in height. The genus is native to tropical regions throughout the world, with the greatest number of species in northern South America. One species, C...
  
  viride Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   & Eichler
  August W. Eichler
  August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...
  
  
• Micropholis
  Micropholis
  Micropholis is flowering plant genus in the family Sapotaceae, containing 38 species. These trees occur mainly in tropical South America, and most locally known as "cafetos", literally meaning "coffee plants"...
  
  compta
  Micropholis compta
  Micropholis compta is a species of plant in the Sapotaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Sources:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  Pierre
• Micropholis crassipedicellata
  Micropholis crassipedicellata
  Micropholis crassipedicellata is a species of plant in the Sapotaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Sources:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
  
  (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   & Eichl.) Pierre
• Pouteria
  Pouteria
  Pouteria is a genus of flowering trees in the gutta-percha family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical regions of the world. It includes the Canistel , the Mamey Sapote and the Lúcuma...
  
  guianensis Aubl.
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
  
  
• Pouteria microstrigosa
  Pouteria microstrigosa
  Pouteria microstrigosa is a species of plant in the Sapotaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  T.D.Penn.
• Pouteria macahensis
  Pouteria macahensis
  Pouteria macahensis is a species of plant in the Sapotaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:* Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  T.D.Penn.

Scrophulariaceae

Scrophulariaceae

Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family, are a family of flowering plants. The plants are annual or perennial herbs with flowers with bilateral or rarely radial symmetry. Members of the Scrophulariaceae have a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority found in temperate areas, including...

• Velloziella dracocephaloides Baill.
  Henri Ernest Baillon
  Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
  
  

Simaroubaceae

Simaroubaceae

The Simaroubaceae is a small, mostly tropical, family in the order Sapindales. In recent decades it has been subject to much taxonomic debate, with several small families being split off...

• Picramnia
  Picramnia
  Picramnia is a genus of plant considered to be in the family Picramniaceae, but sometimes placed in Simaroubaceae. The name is conserved against the genera Pseudo-brasilium Adans., and Tariri Aubl., both which have been rejected .-Selected species:* P. acreana Ule* P. andrade-limae...
  
  glazioviana Engl. subsp. glazioviana
• Simarouba
  Simarouba
  Simarouba is a genus of trees and shrubs in the Simaroubaceae family, native to the neotropics. It has been grouped in the subtribe Simaroubina along with the Simaba and Quassia genera. They have compound leaves, with between 1 and 12 pairs of alternate pinnate leaflets. Their flowers are...
  
  amara
  Simarouba amara
  Simarouba amara is a species of tree in the Simaroubaceae family, found in the rainforests and savannahs of South and Central America and the Caribbean. It was first described by Aublet in French Guiana in 1775 and is one of six species of Simarouba. The tree is evergreen, but produces a new set of...
  
  Aubl.
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
  Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
  
  

Smilacaceae

Smilacaceae

Smilacaceae, the greenbrier family, is a family of flowering plants. Up to some decades ago the genera now included in family Smilacaceae were often assigned to a more broadly defined family Liliaceae, but for the past twenty to thirty years most botanists have accepted Smilacaceae as a distinct...

• Smilax
  Smilax
  Smilax is a genus of about 300-350 species, found in temperate zones, tropics and subtropics worldwide. In China for example about 80 are found , while there are 20 in North America north of Mexico...
  
  japicanga Griseb.
  August Grisebach
  August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...
  
  
• Smilax quinquenervia Vell.
• Smilax spicata Vell.
• Smilax staminea Griseb.
  August Grisebach
  August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...
  
  

Solanaceae

Solanaceae

Solanaceae are a family of flowering plants that include a number of important agricultural crops as well as many toxic plants. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant", but the further etymology of that word is unclear...

• Acnistus
  Acnistus
  Acnistus is a genus of plants in the Solanaceae, the nightshade family.*Acnistus arborescens - hollowheart*Acnistus cauliflorus*Acnistus lorentzii*Acnistus parviflorus...
  
  arborescens
  Acnistus arborescens
  Acnistus arborescens, commonly known as "hollowheart", "wild tabbaco"; gallinero; and "fruta-de-sabiá".-Description:It is native to Central and South America, and the Caribbean...
  
  (L.) Schltdl.
  Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
  
  
• Athenaea anonacea Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
  
• Athenaea picta (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
  
• Aureliana
  Aureliana
  Aureliana is a genus of plant in family Solanaceae. It contains the following species :* Aureliana fasciculata, Seudtn....
  
  brasiliana (Hunz.) Barboza & Hunz.
• Aureliana fasciculata
  Aureliana fasciculata
  Aureliana fasciculata is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Carvalho, L.d'A.F. 1998. . Downloaded on 20 August 2007....
  
  (Vell.) Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
   var. fasciculata
• Brunfelsia
  Brunfelsia
  Brunfelsia is a genus of about 40 species of neotropical shrubs and small trees.The leaves are alternate and simple, with shapes generally elliptic to ovate. The flowers are large and tubular, with five broad petals. Typical habitat is light woodland and thickets. Species in cultivation include...
  
  brasiliensis (Spreng.) L.B.Sm.
  Lyman Bradford Smith
  Lyman Bradford Smith was an American botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is L.B.Sm....
  
   & Downs
  Downs
  -Places:In the 'hill' context, the word 'down' derives from Celtic dun "hill, hill fort".*Downland, a geographical feature*The North Downs and the South Downs, England, as a collective term*North Wessex Downs AONB, England...
  
  var. brasiliensis
• Brunfelsia hydrangaeformis (Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
  Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....
  
  ) Benth.
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
   subsp. hydrangaefomis
• Capsicum
  Capsicum
  Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Its species are native to the Americas where they have been cultivated for thousands of years, but they are now also cultivated worldwide, used as spices, vegetables, and medicines - and have become are a key element in...
  
  campylopodium Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
  
• Cestrum
  Cestrum
  Cestrum is a genus of - depending on authority - 150-250 species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. They are native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas, from the southernmost United States south to the Bío-Bío Region in central Chile...
  
  lanceolatum Miers
  John Miers (botanist)
  John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
  
   var. lanceolatum
• Cestrum aff.sessiliflorum Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
  Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
  
   ex Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
  
• Cestrum stipulatum Vell.
• Cyphomandra
  Cyphomandra
  Cyphomandra was a genus in the flowering plant family Solanaceae . It used to contain about 35 species native to countries of the Americas from Mexico southwards to Northern Argentina....
  
  calycina Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
  
• Dyssochroma viridiflora (Sims) Miers
  John Miers (botanist)
  John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
  
  
• Sessea
  Sessea
  Sessea is a genus of plant in family Solanaceae. It contains the following species :* Sessea sodiroi, Bitter...
  
  regnellii Taub.
• Solanum
  Solanum
  Solanum, the nightshades, horsenettles and relatives, is a large and diverse genus of annual and perennial plants. They grow as forbs, vines, subshrubs, shrubs, and small trees, and often have attractive fruit and flowers. Many formerly independent genera like Lycopersicon or Cyphomandra are...
  
  aff.schizandrum Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
  
• Solanum argenteum Dunal
  Michel Félix Dunal
  Michel Felix Dunal was a French botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medical Natural History from 1816 to 1819...
  
  
• Solanum caeruleum Vell.
• Solanum cinnamomeum
  Solanum cinnamomeum
  Solanum cinnamomeum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Source:* Carvalho, L.d'A.F. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
  
• Solanum decorum Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
   var. decorum
• Solanum granuloso-leprosum Dunal
  Michel Félix Dunal
  Michel Felix Dunal was a French botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medical Natural History from 1816 to 1819...
  
  
• Solanum inaequale
  Solanum inaequale
  Solanum pseudoquina is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. A rare plant, it is dependent on conservation of its habitat to prevent it from becoming a threatened species....
  
  Vell.
• Solanum inodorum Vell.
• Solanum leucodendron
  Solanum leucodendron
  Solanum leucodendron is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Source:* Carvalho, L.d'A.F. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
  
  Sendtn.
  Otto Sendtner
  Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
  
  
• Solanum megalochiton var. villoso-tomentosum Dunal
  Michel Félix Dunal
  Michel Felix Dunal was a French botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medical Natural History from 1816 to 1819...
  
  
• Solanum odoriferum Vell.
• Solanum stipulatum Vell.
• Solanum swartzianum Roem. & Schult.
  Josef August Schultes
  Josef August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Father of Julius Hermann...
  
   var. swartzianum
• Solanum undulatum Dunal
  Michel Félix Dunal
  Michel Felix Dunal was a French botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medical Natural History from 1816 to 1819...
  
  

Symplocaceae

Symplocaceae

Symplocos is a genus of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing about 250 species native to Asia, Australia and the Americas.Symplocos species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including The Engrailed....

• Symplocos celastrinea Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   ex Miq.
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
  
• Symplocos crenata (Vell.) Mattos
• Symplocos nitidiflora Brand.
• Symplocos variabilis Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  

Theaceae

Theaceae

The Theaceae is a family of flowering plants, composed of shrubs and trees. Some botanists include the family Ternstroemiaceae within the Theaceae while others do not...

• Laplacea fruticosa (Schrad.) Kobuski

Thymelaeaceae

Thymelaeaceae

Thymelaeaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants composed of 50 genera and 898 species. It was established in 1789 by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu.Thymelaeaceae is in the order Malvales...

• Daphnopsis martii Meisn.
  Carl Meissner
  Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
  
  
• Daphnopsis utilis Warm.

Tiliaceae

Tiliaceae

Tiliaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family is not part of APG II, but it is found all through the botanical literature and remains prominently listed by nomenclatural databases such as IPNI....

• Luehea
  Luehea
  Luehea is a genus of trees, in the Malvaceae family....
  
  divaricata
  Luehea divaricata
  Luehea divaricata is a species of tree native to the cerrado area of Brazil, particularly the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul. It is known by various local names including "açoita-cavalo", "açoita-cavalo miúdo", "ibatingui", "ivatingui", "pau-de-canga", and "caiboti".-Traditional uses:L....
  
  Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  

Umbelliferae

• Hydrocotyle
  Hydrocotyle
  Hydrocotyle sometimes called water pennywort, Indian Pennywort, Marsh Penny, Thick-leaved Pennywort and even White Rot...
  
  leucocephala Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
   & Schltdl.
  Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
  
  

Verbenaceae

Verbenaceae

Verbenaceae, commonly known as the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell.Recent phylogenetic studies have shown that...

• Aegiphila
  Aegiphila
  Aegiphila is a genus of plant in family Verbenaceae.Species include:* Aegiphila cordifolia, Moldenke* Aegiphila fasciculata, J.D...
  
  fluminensis Vell.
• Aegiphila obducta Vell.
• Aegiphila sellowiana
  Aegiphila sellowiana
  Aegiphila sellowiana is a tree in the Verbenaceae family native to Atlantic Forest and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-See also:...
  
  Cham.
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
  
  

Violaceae

Violaceae

Violaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of about 800 species in 21 genera. It takes its name from the genus Viola, the violets and pansies.Older classifications such as the Cronquist system placed Violaceae in an order named after it, the Violales...

• Anchietea pyrifolia (Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  ) G.Don
  George Don
  George Don was a Scottish botanist.George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1797. His father, also named George Don, was Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802 and his mother was Caroline Clementina Stuart. George was the elder brother of David...
  
   var. pyrifolia

Vitaceae

Vitaceae

Vitaceae are a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants including the grapevine and Virginia creeper. The family name is derived from the genus Vitis...

• Cissus
  Cissus
  Cissus is a genus of approximately 350 species of woody vines in the grape family . They have a cosmopolitan distribution, though the majority are to be found in the tropics. In Tamil they are known as pirandai .-Medicinal:...
  
  pulcherrima Vell.
• Cissus sulcicaulis (Baker
  John Gilbert Baker
  John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
  
  ) Planch.
  Jules Émile Planchon
  Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent...
  
  

Vochysiaceae

Vochysiaceae

Vochysiaceae is a plant family belonging to the order of Myrtales.-Description:Trees or shrubs with opposite leaves; flowers are zygomorph 1--5 merous; ovary inferior or superior; one fertile stamen; fruits samara or capsules-Biogeography:...

• Vochysia
  Vochysia
  Vochysia is a genus of plant in family Vochysiaceae. It contains the following species, among others:* Vochysia aurifera, Standl. & L.O. Williams...
  
  dasyantha Warm.
• Vochysia glazioviana Warm.
• Vochysia magnifica Warm.
• Vochysia oppugnata (Vell.) Warm.
• Vochysia rectiflora var. glabrescens Warm.
• Vochysia saldanhana Warm.
• Vochysia schwackeana Warm.
• Vochysia spathulata Warm.
• Vochysia tucanorum Mart.
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  

Winteraceae

Winteraceae

The Winteraceae are a family of flowering plants. The family includes 120 species of trees and shrubs in 9 genera.The Winteraceae are a mostly southern-hemisphere family associated with the Antarctic flora, found in tropical to temperate climate regions of Malesia, Oceania, eastern Australia, New...

• Drimys
  Drimys
  Drimys is a genus of about eight species of woody evergreen flowering plants, in the family Winteraceae. The species are native to the Neotropics, ranging from southern Mexico to the southern tip of South America...
  
  brasiliensis Miers
  John Miers (botanist)
  John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....