Abarema is a neotropical genus in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Brazil, Cuba, and Venezuela. 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.
Grimmeodendron is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1908. It is native to the West Indies.
- Grimmeodendron eglandulosum(A.Rich.) Urb. - Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola
- Grimmeodendron jamaicenseUrb. - Jamaica
Chascotheca is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae described as a genus in 1904. It is native to the western Caribbean.
- Chascotheca neopeltandra(Griseb.) Urb. - Cuba, Hispaniola, Cayman Islands
- Chascotheca triplinervia(Müll.Arg.) G.L.Webster - Cuba
Schoepfia is a genus of small hemiparasitic trees, flowering plants belonging to the family Schoepfiaceae. The genus has long been placed in the Olacaceae family.
Pithecellobium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes approximately 23 species from the tropical Americas, ranging from Mexico to Peru and northern Brazil, including the Caribbean Islands and Florida.
Schoepfia arenaria is an extremely rare species of hemiparasitic flowering plant in the Schoepfiaceae family. It grows as a small, multi-trunked tree. It is endemic to Puerto Rico, where it is found growing along the northern coast. A local Spanish vernacular name recorded for this tree is araña ('spider'). It has no common name in English.
Schoepfia multiflora is a species of flowering plant in the Schoepfiaceae family. It is a smallish tree, growing six to eight metres tall, exceptionally to ten metres. It is endemic to Jamaica, where it grows on rocky limestone in the woodlands of the central region.
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. He pursued further study at the University of Bonn and later at the University of Berlin where he gained a doctorate in 1873. Urban was appointed by A. W. Eichler to run the Berlin Botanical Garden and supervised its move to Dahlem. He also worked as Eichler's assistant on the Flora Brasiliensis, later succeeding him as editor. In 1884 Urban began working with Leopold Krug on his Puerto Rican collections, a collaboration would later produce the nine-volume Symbolae Antillanae, one of his most important contributions, and his 30-part Sertum Antillanum. Urban's herbarium, estimated to include 80,000 or more sheets, was destroyed when the Berlin Herbarium was bombed in 1943, during the Second World War.
Justicia tobagensis is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago. The species is only known from two areas in the Main Ridge of Tobago. It was first described as Drejerella tobagensis by German botanist Ignatz Urban in his Symbolae Antillanae, based on a collection made by Danish botanist Henrik von Eggers.
Odontonema brevipes is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago. The species is only known from four localities in the Main Ridge of Tobago. It was described by German botanist Ignatz Urban in his Symbolae Antillanae, based on collections made by Danish botanist Henrik von Eggers and English-born Trinidadian botanist Walter Elias Broadway.
Tetraperone is a genus of flowering plants in the cosmos tribe within the daisy family.
Koehneola is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. There is only one known species, Koehneola repens.
Fuertesiella is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, Fuertesiella pterichoides, native to Cuba and to the Dominican Republic.
Chascotheca neopeltandra is a species of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae described as a species in 1904. It is native to the western Caribbean.
Magnolia cubensis, the Cuban magnolia or cashew of the Maestra, is a tree native to the island of Cuba in the West Indies. It grows in the Sierra Maestra in the southeastern part of the island, at elevations from 700–1,800 m (2,300–5,900 ft). It is an evergreen with leathery leaves and flowers about 2.5 cm (0.98 in) in diameter. Seeds are reddish-orange.
Eosanthe is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Eosanthe cubensis, which is endemic to Sierra Cristal National Park, in Cuba.
Coutaportla is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Mexico and Guatemala.
Abarema alexandri var. troyana is a variety of the legume A. alexandri in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica, where it can be found in woodland or thicket on limestone soils.
Chromolaena geraniifolia, the geraniumleaf thoroughwort, is a West Indian species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, part of the United States.
Ottoschulzia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Metteniusaceae.
