Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is chaired by Dame Amelia Fawcett.
Tigridia, is a genus of bulbous or cormous flowering plants belonging to the family Iridaceae. With common names including peacock flowers, tiger-flowers or shell flowers, they have large showy flowers; and one species, Tigridia pavonia, is often cultivated for this. The approximately 60 species in this family grow in the Americas, from Mexico down to Chile.
Bessera is a genus of Mexican plants in the cluster lily subfamily within the asparagus family. It is a small genus of 5 known species of mostly herbaceous flowering plants with corms. They have flowers with petals and petaloid sepals (tepals) with compound pistils.
Dicoma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It's native to Africa and the Middle East.
Clinostigma is a genus of flowering plants in the Arecaceae (palm) family. It is native to various islands in the western Pacific.
Tectiphiala ferox, or palmiste bouglé, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is endemic to Mauritius.
Acritopappus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described as a genus in 1972.
Macledium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Both Macledium and Dicoma are distributed largely in tropical and southern Africa. Macledium is distinguished from genus Dicoma by a large number of characters relating to morphology and anatomy of phyllaries, corolla, anthers, style, cypsela and testa.
World Flora Online is an Internet-based compendium of the world's plant species.
Acilepis ornata is a species of plant native to India. The species was first described by William Alexander Talbot in 1898 as Vernonia ornata.
Tribulocarpus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.
Cardosoa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. It contains a single species, Cardosoa athanasioides.
Hulemacanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes two species endemic to New Guinea.
Melittacanthus divaricatus is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It is a subshrub native to central and east-central Madagascar. It is the sole species in genus Melittacanthus.
Mellera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.
Phaulopsis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.
Strobilanthopsis linifolia is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It is a perennial or shrub native to the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Angola. It is the sole species in genus Strobilianthopsis.
Siphonandra is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.
Hiernia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orobanchaceae. It only contains one species, Hiernia angolensisS.Moore
Dicomeae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, subfamily Carduoideae.
