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The Lyon Arboretum is a botanical garden
Botanical garden

Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material....
 managed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa

The University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii. The school is located in Manoa, an urban neighborhood community of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and one mile from Ala Moana and Waik...
 located at the upper end of Manoa
Manoa

Manoa is a valley and a residential neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; the community is approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and less than a mile from Ala Moana and Waikiki at ....
 Valley in Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
. The Arboretum is open to the public on weekdays from 9 AM to 4 PM, and on Saturday from 9 AM to 3 PM; admission is free.

Much of the Arboretum's botanical collection consists of an artificial lowland tropical rainforest
Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750?2000 mm . The monsoon trough, alternately known as the intertropical convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating Earth's tropical rain forests....
 with numerous trails and small water features.

Arboretum
Arboretum

An arboretum is a collection of trees. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study....
 was established in 1918 by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association
Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association

Founded in 1895, the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was an unincorporated, voluntary organization of sugar plantation owners in the Hawaiian Islands....
 to demonstrate watershed restoration and test various tree species for reforestation, as well as collect living plants of economic value.






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The Lyon Arboretum is a botanical garden
Botanical garden

Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material....
 managed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa

The University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii. The school is located in Manoa, an urban neighborhood community of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and one mile from Ala Moana and Waik...
 located at the upper end of Manoa
Manoa

Manoa is a valley and a residential neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; the community is approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and less than a mile from Ala Moana and Waikiki at ....
 Valley in Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
. The Arboretum is open to the public on weekdays from 9 AM to 4 PM, and on Saturday from 9 AM to 3 PM; admission is free.

Much of the Arboretum's botanical collection consists of an artificial lowland tropical rainforest
Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750?2000 mm . The monsoon trough, alternately known as the intertropical convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating Earth's tropical rain forests....
 with numerous trails and small water features.

Brief history

The Arboretum
Arboretum

An arboretum is a collection of trees. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study....
 was established in 1918 by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association
Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association

Founded in 1895, the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was an unincorporated, voluntary organization of sugar plantation owners in the Hawaiian Islands....
 to demonstrate watershed restoration and test various tree species for reforestation, as well as collect living plants of economic value. In 1953, it became part of the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment training center, th...
. Its over 15,000 accessions focus primarily on the monocot families of palm
Palm

Palm usually refers to the central region of the front of the hand. It may also refer to"...
s, ginger
Ginger

Ginger is a spice which is used for cooking and is also consumed whole as a delicacy or medicine. It is the rhizome of the Zingiber, Zingiber officinale....
s, heliconia
Heliconia

Heliconia is a genus of about 100 to 200 species of flowering plants native to the tropical Americas and the Pacific Ocean islands west to Indonesia....
s, bromeliads, and aroids.

Today, the Arboretum continues to develop its extensive tropical plant collection, while emphasizing native Hawaiian plants, such as Pritchardia
Pritchardia

The genus Pritchardia consists of between 24-40 species of List of Arecaceae genera#Tribe Corypheae found on tropical Pacific Ocean Pacific Islands in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuamotus, and Hawaiian Islands....
 spp. (palms
Arecaceae

Palm or Palmae or Panamea , the palm family, is a family of flowering plants belonging to the Monocotyledon order, Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known Genus with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropics, subtropics, and warm temperate climates....
). Native and Polynesian cultivated and wild species are displayed in the ethnobotanical, native ecosystems, and Hawaiian sections of the gardens. The Lyon Arboretum also maintains an active seed bank
Seedbank

A seedbank stores seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere are destroyed. It is a type of gene bank. The seeds stored may be food crops, or those of rare species to protect biodiversity....
.

Background

Lyon Arboretum is adjacent to land owned by the City Water Board of Water Supply as well as State conservation land and the site of the former Paradise Park. Paradise Park, formerly a theme park home to trained bird shows and the Treetops Restaurant, is frequently confused with Lyon Arboretum, but these are separate entities. The old Paradise Park parcel has been considered for purchase by the state for the University of Hawaii (), but a deal has not yet been completed.

Plant collection

Listed by scientific name.

Names beginning with A

  • 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 Sweden botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1773....
     koa
    Koa

    The koa is a species of Flowering plant tree in the pea Family , Fabaceae. It is Endemism to the Hawaiian Islands, where it is the second most common tree....
  • Acanthophoenix
    Acanthophoenix

    Acanthophoenix is a monoecious genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family from the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean, where they are commonly called palmiste rouge....
     rubra
  • Acoelorraphe wrightii
  • Acrocomia
    Acrocomia

    Acrocomia aculeata, the sole species in the genus Acrocomia, is a species of Arecaceae native to tropical regions of the Americas, from southern Mexico and the Caribbean south to Paraguay and northern Argentina....
     aculeata
  • Actinokentia
    Actinokentia

    Actinokentia is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.References...
     divaricata
  • Actinorhytis
    Actinorhytis

    Actinorhytis is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the arecaceae family found in Oceania. The lone species, Actinorhytis calapparia is a rain forest inhabitant and has the largest fruit of any palm in the Iguanurinae....
     calapparia
  • Aframomum albiflorum
  • Aframomum angustifolium
  • Aframomum mala
  • Aframomum sanguineum
  • Aframomum sp L-85_0133 (Ivory Coast)
  • Aframomum zambeziacum
  • Aiphanes
    Aiphanes

    Aiphanes is a genus of palms in the family Arecaceae, native to tropical regions of South America and Central America and also the Caribbean.There are between 23-38 species in the genus, depending on taxonomic interpretation....
     aculeata
  • Aiphanes eggersii
  • Aiphanes lindeniana
  • Aiphanes minima
  • Aiphanes minima (historical)
  • Aiphanes ulei
  • Allagoptera
    Allagoptera

    Allagoptera is a monoecious genus of flowering plant in the arecaceae family found in South America consisting of four similar-looking species....
     arenaria
  • Alloschmidia
    Alloschmidia

    Alloschmidia is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Alloschmidia glabrata...
     glabrata
  • Alocasia
    Alocasia

    Alocasia is a genus of broad-leaved rhizomatous or bulbous perennials from the Family Araceae. There are about 70 species of Alocasia occurring in Asia, Oceania and South America....
     odora
  • Alocasia scabriuscula
  • Alpinia
    Alpinia

    Alpinia is a genus of plants, with more than 230 species from the Ginger family .DNA sequence-based methods have shown that this genus is polyphyletic....
     'Toni'
  • Alpinia aff. caerulea 2003.0370
  • Alpinia aquatica
  • Alpinia aquatica L-95_0361
  • Alpinia aquatica L-98_0559
  • Alpinia arctiflora
  • Alpinia argentea
  • Alpinia boia
  • Alpinia boninsimensis
  • Alpinia brevilabris
  • Alpinia caerulea
  • Alpinia calcarata
  • Alpinia calcarata L-97.0554
  • Alpinia carolinensis
  • Alpinia carolinensis (aff) L-92_0289 (Solomons, red, branching)
  • Alpinia chinensis
  • Alpinia elegans
  • Alpinia floccosa
  • Alpinia foxworthyi
  • Alpinia galanga
  • Alpinia haenkei
  • Alpinia intermedia L-80_0717
  • Alpinia latilabris
  • Alpinia ligulata L-94_0270
  • Alpinia luteocarpa
  • Alpinia luteocarpa floral details
  • Alpinia malaccensis
  • Alpinia malaccensis (aff) 2001_0550
  • Alpinia modesta
  • Alpinia mutica (aff) L-92_0469
  • Alpinia mutica L-91_0103
  • Alpinia nieuwenhuizii
  • Alpinia nigra
  • Alpinia novae-pommeraniae L-78_0474
  • Alpinia oceanica
  • Alpinia officinarum
  • Alpinia oxyphylla
  • Alpinia pinetorum
  • Alpinia purpurata 1
  • Alpinia purpurata 2
  • Alpinia purpurata types
  • Alpinia romburghiana
  • Alpinia sp (Halmahera; Nong Nooch 9390)
  • Alpinia sp L-80_0613
  • Alpinia sp L-83_1070 (upright shell)
  • Alpinia suishaensis
  • Alpinia vittata L-84_0107
  • Alpinia zerumbet (aff)
  • Alpinia zerumbet L-67_1024
  • Amherstia nobili
  • Ammandra
    Ammandra

    Ammandra is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the arecaceae family found in South America where it is endangered. The sole species is Ammandra decasperma, although another species has been recognized....
     decasperma
  • Amomum
    Amomum

    Amomum is a genus of plant, including several types of Cardamom--especially Black cardamom--in the order Zingiberales. Plants of this genus are remarkable for their pungency and aromatic properties....
     anomalum
  • Amomum compactum
  • Amomum dallachyi
  • Amomum glabrum
  • Amomum kinabaluense
  • Amomum laxisquamosum
  • Amomum lepicarpus (aff) L-94_0271
  • Amomum longipes
  • Amomum oliganthum
  • Amomum petaloideum
  • Amomum sceletscens
  • Amomum sp L-93_0556 (angled pods)
  • Amomum sp L-95_0349
  • Amomum testaceum
  • Amomum uliginosum aff L-99_0474 VN 8056
  • Amomum uliginosum aff L-95_0438 VN 8057
  • Amorphophallus
    Amorphophallus

    Amorphophallus is a large genus of some 170 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the Arum family ....
     albispathus
  • Amorphophallus konjac
  • Amorphophallus smithsonianus
  • Anacardium
    Anacardium

    Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.Selected species:*Anacardium corymbosum...
     occidentale
  • Anubias
    Anubias

    Anubias is a genus of aquatic and semi-aquatic flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical central and western Africa. They primarily grow in rivers and streams, but can also be found in marshes....
     afzelii
  • Archontophoenix alexandrae
    Archontophoenix alexandrae

    Archontophoenix alexandrae is a Arecaceae native to Queensland, Australia. It is often used as an ornamental plant.File:Starr_011205-0026_Archontophoenix_alexandrae.jpg...
  • Archontophoenix alexandrae (historical)
  • Archontophoenix cunninghamiana
  • Archontophoenix maxima
  • Archontophoenix purpurea
  • Archontophoenix tuckeri
  • Areca
    Areca

    Areca is a genus of about 50 species of single-stemmed Arecaceaes in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests from Malaysia to the Solomon Islands....
     caliso
  • Areca camarinensis
  • Areca catechu
  • Areca catechu at Lyon
  • Areca costulata
  • Areca glandiformis
  • Areca guppyana,
  • Areca ipot
  • Areca kinabaluensis
  • Areca latiloba
  • Areca macrocalyx
  • Areca multifida
  • Areca novohibernica
  • Areca oxycarpa
  • Areca triandra
  • Areca vestiaria
  • Areca vestiaria (cf) L-95_0499 (Halmahera)
  • Arenga
    Arenga

    Arenga is a genus of 24 species of Arecaceae, native to tropical regions of southern and southeastern Asia. They are small to medium-sized palms, growing to 2-20 m tall, with pinnate leaf 2-12 m long....
     caudata
  • Arenga caudata var. stenopetala
  • Arenga hastata, Arenga microcarpa
  • Arenga obtusifolia
  • Arenga pinnata
  • Arenga undulatifolia
  • Asterogyne
    Asterogyne

    Asterogyne is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Asterogyne ramosa* Asterogyne spicata...
     martiana
  • Astrocaryum
    Astrocaryum

    Astrocaryum is a genus of 36 species of Arecaceaes native to Atlantic Forest and Amazon Rainforest in Central America and South America.Species...
     aculeatum
  • Astrocaryum alatum
  • Astrocaryum alatum (cf.) L-87_0414
  • Astrocaryum chambira
  • Astrocaryum mexicanum
  • Astrocaryum murumuru
  • Astrocaryum standleyanum
  • Attalea
    Attalea (genus)

    Attalea is a large genus of Arecaceae native to the Caribbean, Central America and South America. This pinnately leaved genus includes some of the largest neotropics palms....
     butyracea
  • Attalea cohune
  • Attalea crassispatha
    Attalea crassispatha

    Attalea crassispatha is a Arecaceae endemic to southwest Haiti. It is considered a critically endangered species with an estimated population of 25 individuals in 1991....
  • Attalea insignis
  • Attalea maripa
  • Attalea speciosa


    • Names beginning with B to C

    • Bactris
      Bactris

      Bactris is a genus of about 240 species in the palm family, Arecaceae, native to Central America and South America, and the Caribbean. They are trees growing to 4-20 m tall....
       gasipaes
    • Bactris longiseta
    • Bactris major
    • Bactris militaris
    • Bactris sp. L-81_0309
    • Bactris sp. L-87_0422
    • Bactris sp. L-89_0043
    • Balaka
      Balaka

      Balaka may refer to:* Balaka District, a district in Southern Region, Malawi* Balaka Township, Malawi, a city in the aforementioned district...
       longirostris
    • Balaka microcarpa
    • Balaka seemannii
    • Balaka sp. L-64.2272 (Samoa)
    • Balaka tuasivica
    • Basselinia
      Basselinia

      Basselinia is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Basselinia favieri* Basselinia humboldtiana...
       gracilis
    • Basselinia pancheri
    • Beccariophoenix
      Beccariophoenix

      Beccariophoenix madagascariensis is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family. It is the only species in the genus Beccariophoenix....
       madagascariensis
    • Begonia
      Begonia

      Begonia is a genus in the flowering plant family Begoniaceae. The only other member of the family Begoniaceae is Hillebrandia, a genus with a single species in the Hawaiian Islands....
       foliosa
    • Bentickia nicobarica
    • Bismarckia
      Bismarckia

      Bismarckia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family endemic to western and northern Madagascar where they grow in open grassland....
       nobilis
    • Bismarckia nobilis in Thailand
    • Boesenbergia grandis (aff) L-92_0475
  • Borassodendron
    Borassodendron

    Borassodendron is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Borassodendron machadonis...
     machadonis
  • Brahea
    Brahea

    Brahea is a genus of palms in the Arecaceae family . They are commonly referred to as Hesper Palms and are endemic to Mexico and Central America....
     aculeata
  • Brassiophoenix
    Brassiophoenix

    Brassiophoenix is a monoecious genus of flowering plant in the arecaceae family found in Papua New Guinea. Of the two similar species, one is more common in cultivation and was mistakenly identified as Brassiophoenix schumanni....
     schumannii
  • Brownea
    Brownea

    Brownea is a genus of about 30 species in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae. The genus is native to tropical regions of the Americas....
     macrophylla
  • Burbidgea pauciflora
  • Burbidgea pubescens
  • Burbidgea schizocheila
  • Burbidgea stenantha
  • Burretiokentia
    Burretiokentia

    Burretiokentia is a genus of New Caledonian palms containing five species:* Burretiokentia dumasii* Burretiokentia grandiflora* ''Burretiokentia hapala...
     hapala
  • Burretiokentia koghiensis
  • Burretiokentia vieillardii
  • Butia
    Butia

    Butia,also known as a Pindo Palm is a genus of nine species of palms in the family Arecaceae, native to South America in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina....
     capitata
  • Butia eriospatha
  • Butia paraguayensis
  • Caesalpinia
    Caesalpinia

    Caesalpinia is the name of a genus of controversial size , consisting of tropical and subtropical woody plants. It is named after the botanist Andrea Cesalpino....
     decapetala
  • Calamus
    Calamus (palm genus)

    Calamus is a genus of the palm family Arecaceae. These are among several genera known as rattan palms. There are some 325 species in this genus, all with a palaeotropical distribution....
     australis
  • Calamus caryotoides
  • Calamus oxleyanus
  • Calamus peregrinus
  • Calamus sp. Wahiawa BG 67.1165
  • Calyptrogyne
    Calyptrogyne

    Calyptrogyne is a genus in the palm family . The distribution of this genus is restricted to Central America. Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana is the best studied species in this genus....
     ghiesbreghtiana
  • Calyptronoma plumeriana
  • Calyptronoma rivalis,
  • Carpentaria
    Carpentaria

    Carpentaria acuminata , the sole species in the genus Carpentaria, is a Arecaceae native to tropical coastal regions in the north of Northern Territory, Australia....
     acuminata
  • Carpoxylon
    Carpoxylon

    Carpoxylon is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Carpoxylon macrospermum...
     macrospermum
  • Ceiba
    Ceiba

    Ceiba is the name of a genus of many species of large trees found in tropical areas, including Mexico, Central America and South America, The Bahamas, Belize and the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia....
     sp. 2438
  • Ceratolobus
    Ceratolobus

    Ceratolobus is a dioecious genus of flowering plant in the arecaceae family found in Southeast Asia, commonly called rotan. They are only differentiated from close relatives like Korthalsia, Calamus , and Daemonorops by leaf sheath appendages or inflorescence variations....
     glaucescens
  • Chorisia speciosa
  • Chuniophoenix
    Chuniophoenix

    Chuniophoenix is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Chuniophoenix hainanensis...
     nana
  • Clerodendrum
    Clerodendrum

    Clerodendrum is a genus of about 400 species of flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae . The genus is native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the world, with most of the species occurring in tropical Africa and southern Asia, but with a few in the tropical Americas and northern Australasia, and a few extending north into the...
     quadriloculare
  • Clerodendrum speciosum
  • Clerodendrum splendens
  • Clinostigma
    Clinostigma

    Clinostigma is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Clinostigma exorrhizum* Clinostigma haerestigma...
     haerestigma
  • Clinostigma harlandii
  • Clinostigma ponapense
  • Clinostigma savoryanum
  • Clitoria
    Clitoria

    Clitoria is a genus of flowering plants that are insect pollinated. These plants are native to tropical and temperate areas of the Old and New World including southeast Asia, where the flowers are often used as a food dye....
     fairchildiana
  • Cornukaempferia aurantiflora
  • Corypha
    Corypha

    Corypha is a genus of six or seven species of Arecaceae , native to India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, and northeastern Australia ....
     utan
  • Costus
    Costus

    Costus is a genus of perennial tropical herbaceous plants from the costus family . They are often characterized and distinguished from relatives such as Zingiber by their spiraling stems....
     acreanus
  • Costus dubius
  • Costus lima
  • Costus osae
  • Costus phaeotrichus
  • Cryosophila
    Cryosophila

    Cryosophila is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It includes the following species:* Cryosophila bartlettii* Cryosophila cookii...
     guagara
  • Cryosophila stauracantha
  • Cryosophila warscewiczii
  • Curcuma
    Curcuma

    Curcuma is a genus of about 80 accepted species in the plant family Zingiberaceae that contains such species as turmeric and Siam Tulip. The name comes from Arabic kurkummeaning "turmeric", but saffron is not in the same order....
      sp. (NN 10563)
  • Curcuma sp. (NN 10830)
  • Curcuma sp. (NN 11385)
  • Curcuma sp. (NN 11395)
  • Curcuma `Laddawan'
  • Curcuma alismatifolia
  • Curcuma aromatica
  • Curcuma aurantiaca
  • Curcuma australasica
  • Curcuma bicolor
  • Curcuma cinnabarina
  • Curcuma haritha
  • Curcuma harmandii
  • Curcuma longa
  • Curcuma neilgheriensis
  • Curcuma pallida
  • Curcuma parviflora
  • Curcuma petiolata
  • Curcuma rhomba
  • Curcuma roscoeana
  • Curcuma rosea
  • Curcuma sp. 2003_0155
  • Curcuma sp. L-94_0121
  • Curcuma X (alismatifolia x harmandii)
  • Curcuma zanthorrhiza
  • Curcuma zedoaria
  • Curcumorpha longiflora
  • Cyphophoenix
    Cyphophoenix

    Cyphophoenix is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Cyphophoenix elegans* Cyphophoenix nucele...
     elegans
  • Cyphosperma
    Cyphosperma

    Cyphosperma is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Cyphosperma tanga*     Cyphosperma trichospadix...
     balansae
  • Cyrtosperma
    Cyrtosperma

    Cyrtosperma is a genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family that consists of approximately 12 species. The genus had gone through considerable taxonomy changes in the 1980s, and as a result is now considered to be endemism to only Asia and some Pacific islands....
     sp. 2000.0188
  • Cyrtostachys
    Cyrtostachys

    Cyrtostachys is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Cyrtostachys kisu*     Cyrtostachys renda...
     peekeliana


    • Names beginning with D to R

    • Dichorisandra thyrsiflora
      Dichorisandra thyrsiflora

      Blue Ginger is a tropical plant which resembles ginger in growth and habit, but is actually a relative of the Tradescantia pallida. The plant is native to the tropical woodlands of North America, Central America and South America, specially in Atlantic Forest vegetation in Brazil....
    • Dipterocarpus
      Dipterocarpus

      Dipterocarpus is a genus of flowering plants and the type genus of family Dipterocarpaceae. The genus has about 70 species, occurring in Southeast Asia....
       retusus
    • Dracontium
      Dracontium

      Dracontium is a flowering plant similar to Amorphophallus. It can be distinguished on the basis of its inflorescence, which is smaller and unisexual....
       pittieri
    • Dracontium sp. L-94.0254
    • Elettaria
      Elettaria

      Elettaria is a genus of one or two species of cardamoms, native to southeastern Asia from India south to Sri Lanka and east to Malaysia and western Indonesia, where it grows in tropical rainforests....
       cardamomum
    • Elettaria sp. L-97_0050
    • Elettariopsis curtisii L-97_0007
    • Elettariopsis exserta L-99_0476
    • Elettariopsis sp. (NN 10772)
    • Elettariopsis sp. 2004_0095 (NN 10771)
    • Elettariopsis sp. L-98_0282, Elettariopsis sp. L-99_0478
    • Elettariopsis sp. L-99_0479 (dentine scent, Viet Nam)
    • Elettariopsis sp. L-99_0612
    • Elettariopsis stenosiphon
    • Epipremnum
      Epipremnum

      Epipremnum is a genus of sub-tropical plants. They are often cultivated as house plants. All parts of the plants are toxic. Most of the species in this genus originated in Southeast Asia....
       elegans
    • Erythrina
      Erythrina

      Erythrina is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering trees in the Family Fabaceae and distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide....
       sp. (Venezuela, red) L-89_0595
    • Etlingera
      Etlingera

      Etlingera is a genus of Indo-Pacific terrestrial and perennial herbs in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae consisting of more than 100 different species found, mostly, near the equator....
       australasica
    • Etlingera cevuga
    • Etlingera corrugata
    • Etlingera elatior
  • Etlingera elatior L-94_0398
  • Etlingera fimbriobractea
  • Etlingera littoralis
  • Etlingera nasuta
  • Etlingera sessilanthera
  • Etlingera sp. 2003_0233 (NN 9422)
  • Etlingera sp. L-95.0685 (Sabah)
  • Etlingera sp. L-98_0550 (horse head)
  • Fitchia
    Fitchia

    Fitchia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family.It contains the following species:* Fitchia cordata M.L.Grant & Carlq....
     speciosa
  • Freycinetia
    Freycinetia

    Freycinetia is a genus of about 150-180 species of flowering plants native to the tropics of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, belonging to the family Pandanaceae....
     cumingiana
  • Gagnepainia godfreyoi
  • Gagnepainia thoreliana
  • Garcinia
    Garcinia

    Garcinia is a plant genus of the family Clusiaceae native to Asia, Australia, tropical and southern Africa, and Polynesia. The number of species is highly disputed, with various sources recognizing between 50 and about 300 taxa as specifically valid....
     sp. L-95_0696
  • Geissois
    Geissois

    Geissois is a genus of plant in family Cunoniaceae.Species include:* Geissois imthurnii* Geissois stipularis* ''Geissois superba...
     hirsuta
  • Geocharis fusiformis var borneensis
  • Geonoma
    Geonoma

    Geonoma is a genus of small to medium-sized Arecaceae native to the forest understorey of tropical Central America and South America.This palm genus is one of the largest in the Neotropics....
     epetiolata
  • Geonoma macrostachys
  • Geonoma stricta var. stricta
  • Globba `Angel Wings'
  • Globba campsophylla
  • Globba fasciata
  • Globba francisci
  • Globba leucantha
  • Globba marantina
  • Globba schomburgkii
  • Globba unifolia
  • Guihaia
    Guihaia

    Guihaia is a genus of two species of Arecaceae found in China and Vietnam....
     argyrata
  • Haniffia albiflora
  • Hedychium
    Hedychium

    Hedychium is a genus of perennial plants native to tropical Asia and the Himalayas, commonly growing to between 120 and 180 cm tall. Common names include garland flower, ginger lily, and kahili ginger....
     `Pink Sparks'
  • Hedychium cylindricum
  • Hedychium hasseltii L-99_0485
  • Hedychium sp. 2003_0042 (Nepal, Kress)
  • Hedychium stenopetalum
  • Hibiscus
    Hibiscus

    Scientific name:Hibiscus rosa-sinensisThe Genus Hibiscus comprises plants also commonly called hibiscus and less widely known as rosemallow....
     schizopetalus (X)
  • Hornstedtia havilandii
  • Hornstedtia incana (cf.) L-97_0008
  • Hornstedtia sp. L-97_0011 (Sabah)
  • Kaempferia `Grande'
  • Kaempferia `Lavitica'
  • Kaempferia 'Raven'
  • Kaempferia larsenii
  • Kaempferia pulchra
  • Kaempferia rotunda
  • Kaempferia rubromarginata
  • Kaempferia sp. (NN 10479)
  • Kaempferia sp. (NN 10481)
  • Kaempferia sp. (NN 10488)
  • Kaempferia sp. 2001_0412
  • Kaempferia sp. L-99_0488
  • Lebronnecia
    Lebronnecia

    Lebronnecia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family.It contains the following species:* Lebronnecia kokioides...
     kokioides
  • Lecythis
    Lecythis

    Lecythis is a genus of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family.It contains the following species:* Lecythis barnebyi* Lecythis brancoensis...
     minor
  • Lecythis zabucajo
  • Macaranga
    Macaranga

    Macaranga is a large genus of Old World tropical trees of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus in the subtribe Macaranginae. Native to Africa, Australasia, Asia and the Oceania, the genus comprises over 300 different species....
     mappa
  • Macaranga tanarius
  • Mantisia saltatoria
  • Mucuna
    Mucuna

    Mucuna is a genus of around 100 accepted species of climbing vines and shrubs of the Family Fabaceae, found worldwide in the woodlands of tropical areas....
     nigricans
  • Mucuna novoguineensis
  • Musa balbisiana
  • Mussaenda spp and cultivars
  • Orchidantha fimbriata
  • Pholidostachys
    Pholidostachys

    Pholidostachys is a genus of three species of Arecaceae found in Colombia and Central America....
     pulchra
  • Phyllanthus
    Phyllanthus

    Phyllanthus is the largest genus in the Taxonomic family Phyllanthaceae. Phyllanthus has a remarkable diversity of growth forms including annual plant and perennial plant herbaceous plant, arborescent, climbing, floating aquatic, Pachycaule, and Phylloclade....
     moorei
  • Physokentia
    Physokentia

    Physokentia is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Physokentia dennisii* Physokentia tete...
     insolita
  • Pinanga
    Pinanga

    Pinanga is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Pinanga coronata*     Pinanga crassipes...
     aristata
  • Pinanga crassipes
  • Pinanga isabelensis
  • Pinanga malaiana
  • Pinanga modesta
  • Plagiostachys sp. L-97_0036
  • Plagiostachys sp. L-97_0039
  • Plagiostachys sp. L-97_0049
  • Plagiostachys strobilifera
  • Pleuranthodium sp. L-93_0265
  • Pleuranthodium trichocalyx
  • Pogonopus speciosus
  • Pseudobombax
    Pseudobombax

    Pseudobombax is a genus of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family. Subfamily: BombacoideaeSpecies include:* Soroche * Beldaco * Pseudobombax guayasense...
     ellipticum
  • Renealmia
    Renealmia

    Renealmia is a plant genus in the family Zingiberaceae. Species include:* Renealmia alpinia*     Renealmia aurantifera* ''Renealmia cernua...
     battenbergiana
  • Renealmia sp. L-99.0258 (Peru, yellow)
  • Riedelia
    Riedelia

    Riedelia is a genus of alga known from the fossil record, comprising six species....
     sp. L-72_0552
  • Riedelia sp. L-78_0465


    • Names beginning with S to Z

    • Saracca thaipingensis
    • Scaphochlamys biloba L-86_0702
    • Scaphochlamys biloba L-92_0232
    • Scaphochlamys lanceolata
    • Scaphochlamys sp. 2004_0087
    • Scaphochlamys sp. L-95_0658
    • Siamanthus siliquosus
    • Spathiphyllum
      Spathiphyllum

      Spathiphyllum is a genus of about 40 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas and southeastern Asia....
       `Fantastica'
    • Spathiphyllum `Gretchen'
    • Spathiphyllum 'Mauna Loa'
    • Spathiphyllum cannaefolium
    • Spathiphyllum cuspidatum
    • Spathiphyllum floribundum
    • Spathiphyllum floribundum `Mini'
    • Spathiphyllum lechlerianum
    • Spathiphyllum phryniifolium
    • Spathiphyllum quindiuense
    • Spathiphyllum sp. nov.? L-95.0467
    • Spathiphyllum wallisii (`Clevelandii')
    • Spathiphyllum wendlandii
  • Strongylodon macrobotrys
  • 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 the Antilles south to northern Argentina and central Venezuela, including the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Cuba....
     impetigenosa
  • Tacca
    Tacca

    Tacca is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the order Dioscoreales, native to tropical regions of Africa, Australia, and south-eastern Asia....
     integrifolia
  • Tacca palmata
  • Terminalia
    Terminalia

    Terminalia can refer to:* Terminalia , a tree* Terminalia , a mosquito genus* The festival of Terminus , Roman god of boundaries...
     kaernbachii
  • Thunbergia
    Thunbergia

    Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. Its members are known by various names, including thunbergias; clockvine on its own usually refers to Thunbergia grandiflora, while Thunbergia alata is often known as Black-eyed S...
     mysorensis
  • Trichospermum richii
  • Vanoverberghia sepulchrei
  • Veillonia
    Veillonia

    Veillonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the arecaceae family native to New Caledonia. Its leaves resemble the Campecarpus and Cyphokentia palms, though its closest relative is Burretiokentia, distinguished by small differences in flower form....
     alba
  • Warscewiczia coccinea
  • 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 :...
     sp. L-1006
  • Zingiber
    Zingiber

    The genus Zingiber contains the true gingers, a set of plants with medicinal and culinary value in many parts of the world. The most well-known is Ginger, garden ginger....
     amaricans
  • Zingiber aurantiacum
  • Zingiber barbatum
  • Zingiber cochinchinense (aff) 2003_0115 (NN 10537)
  • Zingiber cochinchinense (aff) 2003_0165 (NN 9556)
  • Zingiber collinsii
  • Zingiber coloratum (leaves blue-green)
  • Zingiber coloratum (leaves green)
  • Zingiber corallinum
  • Zingiber flammeum L-92_0473
  • Zingiber flammeum L-97_0009
  • Zingiber gracile
  • Zingiber gramineum
  • Zingiber inflexum
  • Zingiber junceum (cf) (NN 9527)
  • Zingiber kerrii
  • Zingiber latifolium
  • Zingiber longipedunculatum L-93_0254
  • Zingiber martinii
  • Zingiber matutumense
  • Zingiber newmanii
  • Zingiber olivaceum
  • Zingiber ottensii
  • Zingiber parishii (or cochinchinense)
  • Zingiber pellitum
  • Zingiber peninsulare
  • Zingiber petiolatum
  • Zingiber phillipsiae
  • Zingiber prostratum
  • Zingiber puberulum var borneense L-98_0236
  • Zingiber rubens
  • Zingiber rubens (aff) 2001_0140
  • Zingiber sp. (NN 10535)
  • Zingiber sp. 20010559 & 0560
  • Zingiber sp. 2003_0191 (yellow balls)
  • Zingiber sp. 2003_0235 (NN 10544)
  • Zingiber sp. L-92_0170 (red spike)
  • Zingiber sp. nov. L-99_0502
  • Zingiber spectabile
  • Zingiber spectabile `Singapore Gold'
  • Zingiber vinosum
  • Zingiber vinosum L-92_0469
  • Zingiber viridiflavum
  • Zingiber wrayii
  • Zingiber zerumbet 2003_0058 (Myanmar)
  • Zingiber zerumbet 2003_0059 (Myanmar)
  • Zingiber pseudopungens.


    • See also

    • List of botanical gardens in the United States
      List of botanical gardens in the United States

      This list of botanical gardens in the United States is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States of America....


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