Pluchea obovata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Socotra. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
Schiedea obovata is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is a shrub endemic to the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, where it grows in lowland moist forests from 550 to 800 meters elevation. There are only 38 plants in the single known population, and the species is assessed as Critically Endangered. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Haya is a monotypic genus of plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is endemic to Yemen's Socotra island. As of March 2014 The Plant List recognises the single species Haya obovata. Haya obovata grows in subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and rocky areas.
Iryanthera obovata is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is endemic to Brazil.
Melicope obovata, also called Makawao melicope or ovate melicope, was a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It was endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
Monnina obovata is a species of plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
Oldenlandia balfourii is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a subshrub endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen. It grows in semi-deciduous woodland from 350 to 1,370 metres elevation.
Oldenlandia ocellata is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a rosette-forming subshrub endemic to the island of Abd al Kuri in Yemen's Socotra Archipelago. It has a distinctive clear eye at the tip of its succulent leaves and calyces, which may act as a lens to focus sun rays on photosynthetic cells around the sides of its semi-globose leaf tips. It grows on shaded rocky slopes and ledges from 30 to 500 metres elevation, and is particularly common in limestone cracks on Jebal Saleh. O. ocellata is in the "vulnerable" category of the IUCN Red List.
Dirichletia virgata, synonym Placopoda virgata, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a shrub endemic to the islands of Socotra and Samhah in Yemen's Socotra Archipelago. It is widespread plant in low-elevation shrublands and woodlands, including Croton socotranus shrubland and drought-deciduous woodland, on coastal plains, dry foothills, and limestone plateaus from 10 to 600 metres elevation.
Pyrostria socotrana is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a shrub endemic to the Hajhir Mountains on the island of Socotra in Yemen. It grows in submontane semi-deciduous woodland from 850 to 1,000 metres elevation.
Schoepfia harrisii is a species of flowering plant in the Schoepfiaceae family. It is a small tree or shrub, growing two to five metres tall. It is endemic to Jamaica, where it is only known to occur in the parishes of Trelawny and Clarendon, in what is known as Cockpit Country, a region of many steep, rounded, limestone hills, shaped like an egg-carton. Here it grows on crags in moist woodland, between 600 and 900m in elevation.
Sideroxylon fimbriatum is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is a tree endemic to the Hajhir Mountains on the island of Socotra in Yemen. It is uncommon in dense montane woodland from 550 to 1,300 metres elevation.
Spiniluma discolor is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to the Hajhir Mountains on the island of Socotra in Yemen. It is uncommon in dense montane woodland from 600 to 1,000 metres elevation.
Thamnosma socotrana is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It is a subshrub endemic to the Hajhir Mountains on the island of Socotra in Yemen. It has evergreen, strongly aromatic leaves with strongly inrolled margins. It is locally common in low montane shrubland from 700 to 1,400 metres elevation.
The Socotra Island xeric shrublands is a terrestrial ecoregion that covers the large island of Socotra and several smaller islands that constitute the Socotra Archipelago. The archipelago is in the western Indian Ocean, east of the Horn of Africa and south of the Arabian Peninsula. Politically the archipelago is part of Yemen, and lies south of the Yemeni mainland.
Buchanania obovata is a small to medium-sized understorey tree in woodlands native to northern Australia, in particular in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Common names include green plum and wild mango.
Kandelia obovata is a species of plant in the Rhizophoraceae family, i.e. a kind of mangrove. It is found in Vietnam, Natuna Islands of Indonesia, Southern China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Its presence in the Philippines is possible but not confirmed.
Charpentiera obovata, known as broadleaf pāpala, is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the family Amaranthaceae, that is endemic to Hawaiʻi. It inhabits dry, coastal mesic, mixed mesic, and wet forests at elevations of 190–1,750 metres (620–5,740 ft) on all main islands. C. obovata reaches a height of 4.6–9.1 metres (15–30 ft) and a trunk diameter of 0.1–0.6 metres (0.33–1.97 ft).
Plocama thymoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a subshrub or shrub endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen. It grows in semi-deciduous woodland on the limestone plateau and escarpment above Qalansiyah in northwestern Socotra from 350 to 700 metres elevation. It is listed as an endangered species by the IUCN under the basionym Gaillonia thymoides.
Dirichletia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found northeastern tropical Africa to Namibia.
