Peter Wilhelm Lund was a Danish Brazilian paleontologist, zoologist, and archeologist. He spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as well as archaeology.
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His most important work was a comprehensive flora of Brazil, Flora Brasiliensis, which he initiated in 1840 and was completed posthumously in 1906.
Joannesia is a genus of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1798. The entire genus is endemic to Brazil.
José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo (1742–1811) was a Colonial Brazilian botanist who catalogued specimens, for example: Cedrela fissilis Vell. in Florae Fluminensis. He was born in Tiradentes, formerly called São José do Rio das Mortes, state of Minas Gerais; and died in Rio de Janeiro, state of Rio de Janeiro. While at the University of Coimbra in Portugal in the 1790s he worked with Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada in translating works on mineralogy and agriculture. The standard author abbreviation Vell. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
João Geraldo Kuhlmann was a Brazilian botanist.
Lecointea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains seven species native to the tropical Americas.
Steyermarkina is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.
Neesiochloa is a genus of Brazilian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Neesiochloa barbata. It is native to eastern Brazil.
George Gardner was a Scottish biologist mainly interested in botany.
Hoehnea is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described with this name in 1939. It is native to South America, primarily southern Brazil and Paraguay.
Miersiella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1903. It contains only one known species, Miersiella umbellataUrb. It is native to South America.
Monteiroa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Standleya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.
Grazielanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Monimiaceae. The only species is Grazielanthus arkeocarpus.
Hockinia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gentianaceae. The only species is Hockinia montana. It is native to south-eastern Brazil.
Lemeltonia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae.
Leretia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Icacinaceae. The only species is Leretia cordataVell.
Liberatia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.
Metternichia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. For a long time he only species was Metternichia principisJ.C.Mikan., but recently a second species, M. macrocalyx (Carvalho)L.S.de Souza was recognised
Lueckelia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae. The only species is Lueckelia breviloba(Summerh.) Jenny It is within the Tribe Cymbidieae and Subtribus of Stanhopeinae Benth. (1881).
