Persicaria is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the knotweed family, Polygonaceae. Plants of the genus are known commonly as knotweeds or smartweeds. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, with species occurring nearly worldwide. The genus was segregated from Polygonum.
Fallopia is a genus of about 12 species of flowering plants in the buckwheat family, often included in a wider treatment of the related genus Polygonum in the past, and previously including Reynoutria. The genus is native to temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, but species have been introduced elsewhere. The genus includes species forming vines and shrubs.
Zanthoxylum is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs and climbers in the family Rutaceae that are native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. It is the type genus of the tribe Zanthoxyleae in the subfamily Rutoideae. Several of the species have yellow heartwood, to which their generic name alludes. Several species are cultivated for their use as spices, notably including Sichuan pepper.
Podophyllum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, native from Afghanistan to China, and from southeast Canada to the central and eastern United States. The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.
William Botting Hemsley was an English botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient. The standard author abbreviation Hemsl. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Fordia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native from south China and Thailand to west and central Malesia. The genus was established by William Hemsley in 1886.
Hemipilia camptoceras is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is endemic to the Sichuan region of China.
Oxyria is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with three accepted species as of March 2019. It has a circumboreal distribution.
Littledalea is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family, native to mountains in China and neighboring countries. The genus is placed in its own tribe Littledaleae within subfamily Pooideae. The isolated tribe seems to be sister to the tribes Bromeae and Triticeae.
Paraprenanthes is a genus of East Asian plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae, most of the species found only in China.
The bronze loquat is a tree native to China, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Loxocalyx is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1891. It is native to China and Japan.
Rhododendron wiltonii, called the Wilton rhododendron and the wrinkled-skin rhododendron, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Rhododendron native to south‑central China. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Fortunearia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Hamamelidaceae. It just contains one species, Fortunearia sinensisRehder & E.H.Wilson, a shrub or tree native to southern and north-central China.
Ellisiophyllum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. It contains a single species, Ellisiophyllum pinnatum(Wall. ex Benth.) Makino
Hemsleya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae.
Semenovia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It is in subfamily Apioideae and also tribe Tordylieae subtribe Tordyliinae.
Rhabdothamnopsis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae. It contains a single species, Rhabdothamnopsis sinensis, a subshrub native to western and southwestern Sichuan, northern and central Yunnan, and western Guizhou in south-central China.
Sohmaea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae.
Itoa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. It is also in the tribe Saliceae.
