Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas, especially in the Australian-Pacific region, South and Northeastern part of India. The genus includes both herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to 0.5–2 m (1.6–6.6 ft) tall. Their common names are shrub verbenas or lantanas. The generic name originated in Late Latin, where it refers to the unrelated Viburnum lantana.
Verbena, also known as vervain or verveine, is a genus in the family Verbenaceae. It contains about 150 species of annual and perennial herbaceous or semi-woody flowering plants. The majority of the species are native to the Americas and Asia; however, Verbena officinalis, the common vervain or common verbena, is the type species and native to Europe.
Menispermaceae is a family of flowering plants. The alkaloid tubocurarine, a neuromuscular blocker and the active ingredient in the 'tube curare' form of the dart poison curare, is derived from the South American liana Chondrodendron tomentosum. Several other South American genera belonging to the family have been used to prepare the 'pot' and 'calabash' forms of curare. The family contains 78 genera with some 440 species, which are distributed throughout low-lying tropical areas with some species present in temperate and arid regions.
Abuta is a genus in the flowering plant family Menispermaceae, of about 32 species, native to tropical Central and South America.
Congea is a small genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described by William Roxburgh in 1820.
Rodrigo Bernal González is a Colombian botanist who specialises in the palm family. Bernal was a faculty member at the Institute of Natural Sciences, National University of Colombia until 2007. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in 1996. He was general curator of the National Colombian Herbarium (1986-1987), and editor of the scientific journal Caldasia.
Orphanodendron is a genus of legume in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes two species of trees native to Colombia, which grow in tropical lowland forest. The genus is in subfamily Faboideae.
Jalcophila is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Aegiphila is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described in 1763. It was formerly classified in the Verbenaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and Florida.
Cissampelos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae. Various species of this genus have a history of use in various traditions of herbal medicine. Moreover, many of these plants were used as curare applied as arrow poison during hunting.
Virola cuspidata is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is native to South America, occurring in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. It is a shrub or slender tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) tall.
Citharexylum is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. It contains shrub and tree species commonly known as fiddlewoods or zitherwoods. They are native to the Americas, ranging from southern Florida and Texas in the United States to Argentina. The highest diversity occurs in Mexico and the Andes. The generic name is derived from the Greek words κιθάρα (kithara), meaning "lyre", and ξύλον (xylon), meaning "wood," referring to the use of the wood in the sounding boards of string instruments. Several species, especially C. caudatum and C. spinosum, are cultivated as ornamentals.
Cornutia is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1753. Species in this genus are native to tropical parts of the Western Hemisphere, including southern Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and northern South America.
The Catatumbo moist forests (NT0108) is an ecoregion in Venezuela and Colombia to the west and east of Lake Maracaibo. It includes four regions of moist forest on slightly higher ground than the dry forest and mangroves that surround the lake. The forest has unique flora related to the flora of the Amazon basin. It is badly degraded due to farming, livestock grazing and oil exploration.
Telitoxicum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae.
Ochoterenaea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae. The only species is Ochoterenaea colombiana.
Abuta bullata is a species in the genus Abuta, which is part of the flowering plant family Menispermaceae. It is a vine native to South America. It was first described in Brittonia in 1938.
Abuta pahnii is a species of the Abuta genus, which is part of the flowering plant family Menispermaceae. This genus consists of about 32 species, native to tropical Central and South America.
Abuta chocoensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Menispermaceae found near Chocó in Colombia between Rio San Pablo and Las Animas. It is part of the Abuta genus, which consists of about 32 species native to tropical Central and South America.
Telitoxicum duckei is a species of flowering plant first described in 1910 by Friedrich Ludwig Diels who gave it the name Abuta duckei in Das Pflanzenreich. In 1938, Harold Norman Moldenke transferred the species to Telitoxicum as T. duckei. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
