Mayaca is a genus of flowering plants, often placed in its own family, the Mayacaceae. In the APG II system of 2003, it is assigned to the order Poales in the clade commelinids. The Cronquist system, of 1981, also recognised such a family and placed it in the order Commelinales in the subclass Commelinidae.
Tillandsia bartramii, commonly known as Bartram's airplant, is a species of flowering plant in the bromeliad family. It is native to Florida, South Carolina and southern Georgia in the United States as well as Guatemala and Mexico. The name honours William Bartram (1739–1823), an early Florida naturalist.
Hypolytrum is a genus of plant in the family Cyperaceae. It contains approximately 60–70 species, native to tropical Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America and various oceanic islands.
Halodule is a genus of plants in the family Cymodoceaceae described as a genus in 1841. It is widespread on tropical and semi-tropical ocean shores of all continents except Europe and Antarctica.
Androlepis skinneri is a plant species native to southern Mexico and Central America. This is one of the few Bromelioideae species that is dioecious.
Bromelia palmeri is a plant species in the genus Bromelia. This species is endemic to southwestern Mexico, from Colima south to Oaxaca.
Greigia vanhyningii is a plant species in the genus Greigia. This species is endemic to southern Mexico.
Billbergia viridiflora is a plant species in the genus Billbergia native to Tabasco, Belize and Guatemala.
Catopsis wangerinii is a species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Central America, Colombia, and Mexico.
Catopsis wawranea is a species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Costa Rica, Belize, and Mexico.
Fosterella micrantha is a plant species in the genus Fosterella. This species is native to Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Pitcairnia atrorubens is a species of flowering plant in Bromeliaceae family. It is native to Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, and western Mexico as far north as Nayarit.
Pitcairnia wendlandii is a flowering plant in the Bromeliaceae family. It is native to Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala and Chiapas.
Tinantia is a genus of plants in the Commelinaceae, first described in 1839. They are commonly called widow's tears or false dayflowers due to their resemblance of the closely related true dayflowers of the genus Commelina. Tinantia is native to North and South America from Texas + Hispaniola to Argentina, with a center of diversity from Mexico to Nicaragua. Tinantia pringlei, an alpine native of Mexico, is grown as an ornamental in temperate areas and is also a common greenhouse weed.
Weldenia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Commelinaceae, first formally described in 1829. It has one single species: Weldenia candida, which grows natively in Mexico and Guatemala.
Echinodorus grisebachii or Echinodorus amazonicus is commonly known as Amazon sword plant, although other plants are also known under this common name. The aquatic plant is cultivated for and used in ponds and artificial aquatic habitats. It is native to Cuba, Central America, and South America as far south as Brazil and Bolivia. It has been sold under the name Paniculatus.
Tripogandra is a genus of flowering plants in the spiderwort family, Commelinaceae. It is native to the Western Hemisphere from central Mexico and the West Indies south to Argentina.
Dictyostega is a genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1840. It contains only one known species, Dictyostega orobanchoides, native to southern Mexico, Central America, Trinidad, and South America ).
Cathestecum is a genus of the North American plants in the grass family.
Prunus myrtifolia, called the West Indies cherry or myrtle laurel cherry, is a New World species of shrubs in the family Rosaceae.
