Gynerium is a monotypic genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family, native to Mexico and Colombia, Central America, South America, and the West Indies. It is classified in its own tribe Gynerieae.
Aechmea tillandsioides is a bromeliad widespread across southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. It is widely cultivated in other regions as an ornamental plant. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Dicranopygium is a genus of plants belonging to the family Cyclanthaceae, first described as a genus in 1954. They are distributed in the Neotropical realm from southern Mexico to Peru.
Stromanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to the tropical portions of the Americas from Mexico to Trinidad to northern Argentina.
Cyclanthus bipartitus a species of plant in the family Cyclanthaceae, first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to southern Mexico, Central America, Trinidad, Windward Islands, northern South America.
Rotheca is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. Estimates of the number of species in the genus vary from about 35 to as many as 60. Three of the species are native to tropical Asia, with the rest occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa. The type species for the genus is Rotheca serrata. It had originally been named Rotheca ternifolia, but this name is now considered illegitimate.
Homolepis is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family. They are native to Mexico, Central and South America, and the West Indies.
Rhytachne is a genus of plants in the grass family. They grow principally in wet savannahs in Africa and the Americas. More specifically, they tend to prefer transitional zones between marshes and drier upland savannahs. In the Americas, the genus can be found from southern Mexico and Cuba south to northern Argentina, while in Africa it is present in Sub-Saharan Africa, including in Madagascar. Twelve species are included, of which nine are African, two are American, and one, Rhytachne subgibbosa, is found on both continents. The genus is closely related to Coelorachis.
Tillandsia bulbosa, the bulbous airplant, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. It is widespread across Central America, the West Indies, southern Mexico, and northern and eastern South America.
Tillandsia brachycaulos is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. It is native to Mexico, Central America, and Venezuela.
Bixa is a genus of plants in the family Bixaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and South America, and naturalized in other places.
Aechmea bracteata is a plant species in the genus Aechmea. This species is native to Central America, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela; it is also reportedly naturalized in the Bahamas.
Catopsis nutans is a species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Florida, Central America, Greater Antilles, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
Clerodendrum speciosissimum is a tropical shrub of the family Lamiaceae, native to Indonesia and Papuasia, but now naturalized in parts of Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, Seychelles, and Florida.
Clerodendrum paniculatum, the pagoda flower, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Clerodendrum and family Lamiaceae. It is native to tropical Asia and Papuasia, Fiji, and French Polynesia. It is introduced in Central America.
Karomia speciosa is an African deciduous large shrub or bushy tree up to 7 m, and relocated to the family Lamiaceae from Verbenaceae. It is one of 9 species in the genus Karomia, a genus containing species previously classified in Holmskioldia, and is closely related to Clerodendrum. The only remaining species in the genus is Holmskioldia sanguinea, occurring in the foothills of the Himalayas.
Diastatea is a genus of plants native to Latin America, mostly in Mexico and Central America but with one species extending southward along the Andes to Argentina.
- Diastatea costaricensisMcVaugh - Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
- Diastatea expansaMcVaugh - central Mexico
- Diastatea ghiesbreghtii(Kuntze) E.Wimm - southwestern Mexico
- Diastatea micrantha(Kunth) McVaugh - widespread from central Mexico to the Jujuy region of northern Argentina
- Diastatea tenera(A.Gray) McVaugh - southern Mexico and Guatemala
- Diastatea virgataScheidw. - southern Mexico
Nietneria is a genus of plants in the Nartheciaceae. It has two known species, both native to northern South America.
Karomia is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae. The genus was introduced in 1932 by the botanist Paul Louis Amans Dop (1876–1954) in "Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle" (Paris) ser. 2. 4: 1052, for the single species Karomia fragrans. It is native to eastern and southern Africa, Madagascar, and Vietnam.
- Karomia fragransDop – Vietnam
- Karomia gigas(Faden) Verdc. – Kenya, Tanzania
- Karomia humbertii(Moldenke) R.Fern. – Madagascar
- Karomia macrocalyx(Baker) R.Fern. – Madagascar
- Karomia madagascariensis(Moldenke) R.Fern. – Madagascar
- Karomia microphylla(Moldenke) R.Fern. – Madagascar
- Karomia mira(Moldenke) R.Fern. – Madagascar
- Karomia speciosa(Hutch. & Corbishley) R.Fern. – Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
- Karomia tettensis(Klotzsch) R.Fern. – Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia
