Polytrias is a genus of Asian, African, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family, commonly called Java grassBatiki bluegrass, Indian murainagrass, or toto grass. The only known species is Polytrias indica, native to West Africa, Seychelles, the Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Fiji, and Micronesia. It is also cultivated as a lawn grass in other tropical regions, and naturalized in scattered locations in tropical North and South America.
Furcraea foetida is a species of flowering plant native to the Caribbean and northern South America. It is widely cultivated and reportedly naturalized in many places
Cenchrus is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family. Its species are native to many countries in Asia, Africa, Australia, the Americas, and various oceanic islands.
Dianella is a genus of about forty species of flowering plants in the monocot family Asphodelaceae and are commonly known as flax lilies. Plants in this genus are tufted herbs with more or less linear leaves and bisexual flowers with three sepals more or less similar to three petals and a superior ovary, the fruit a berry. They occur in Africa, South-east Asia, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia.
Sprekelia is a genus of Mesoamerican plants in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. Sprekelia plants are sometimes called Aztec lilies or Jacobean lilies although they are not true lilies.
Clinostigma is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae (palm) family, native to various islands in the western Pacific. It contains the following species:
Ochrosia is a genus of flowering plants, first described in 1789. It is in the family Apocynaceae, native to Southeast Asia, Australia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- Ochrosia ackeringae(Teijsm. & Binn.) Miq. – Indonesia, Philippines, Papuasia, Christmas Island
- Ochrosia acuminataTrimen ex Valeton - Sulawesi
- Ochrosia alyxioidesGuillaumin - Vanuatu
- Ochrosia apoensisElmer - Luzon, Mindanao
- Ochrosia balansae(Guillaumin) Baill. ex Guillaumin - New Caledonia
- Ochrosia basistaminaHendrian - Sulawesi
- Ochrosia bodenheimarumGuillaumin - Vallée de la Toutouta in New Caledonia
- Ochrosia borbonicaJ.F.Gmel. – Mauritius + Réunion; naturalized in Guangdong
- Ochrosia brevitubaBoiteau - New Caledonia
- Ochrosia brownii(Fosberg & Sachet) Lorence & Butaud - Nuku Hiva in Marquesas
- Ochrosia citrodoraK.Schum. & Lauterb. - New Guinea
- Ochrosia coccinea(Teijsm. & Binn.) Miq. - Maluku, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands; naturalized in Guangdong
- Ochrosia comptaK.Schum., Hōlei – Hawaii
- Ochrosia ellipticaLabill. – Lord Howe Island, Queensland, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Nauru; naturalized in Guangdong + Taiwan
- Ochrosia fatuhivensisFosberg & Sachet – Fatu Hiva in Marquesas but extinct
- Ochrosia ficifolia(S.Moore) Markgr. - New Guinea
- Ochrosia glomerata(Blume) F.Muell. - Borneo, Sulawesi, Philippines, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Islands
- Ochrosia grandifloraBoit. – New Caledonia
- Ochrosia haleakalaeH.St.John, Hōlei – Maui + island of Hawaiʻi in Hawaiian Islands
- Ochrosia hexandraKoidz. - Kazan-retto
- Ochrosia inventorumL.Allorge – New Caledonia
- Ochrosia iwasakiana(Koidz.) Koidz. ex Masam.
- Ochrosia kauaiensisH.St.John, Hōlei – Kauaʻi in Hawaiian Islands
- †Ochrosia kilaueaensisH.St.John, Hōlei – island of Hawaiʻi in Hawaiian Islands, but extinct
- Ochrosia kilneriF.Muell. - Queensland
- Ochrosia lifuanaGuillaumin - Loyalty Islands + Isle of Pines in New Caledonia
- Ochrosia mariannensisA.DC. - Mariana Islands
- Ochrosia mianaBaill. ex Guillaumin – New Caledonia
- Ochrosia minima(Markgr.) Fosberg & Boiteau – Queensland, Papua New Guinea
- Ochrosia moorei(F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. – Queensland, New South Wales
- Ochrosia mulsantiiMontrouz. – New Caledonia
- Ochrosia nakaiana(Koidz.) Koidz. ex H.Hara - Ogasawara-shoto
- Ochrosia newellianaF.M.Bailey – Queensland
- Ochrosia novocaledonicaDäniker – New Caledonia
- Ochrosia oppositifolia(Lam.) K.Schum. - Seychelles, Chagos Islands, Sri Lanka, Maldive Islands, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, W Malaysia, Indonesia, Papuasia, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna, French Polynesia, Line Islands, Micronesia
- Ochrosia poweriF.M.Bailey - Queensland, New South Wales
- Ochrosia sciadophyllaMarkgr - Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands
- Ochrosia sevenetiiBoiteau - New Guinea
- Ochrosia silvaticaDäniker – New Caledonia
- Ochrosia solomonensis(Merr. & L.M.Perry) Fosberg & Boiteau - Solomon Islands
- Ochrosia syncarpaMarkgr. - Bali, Lombok, Timor, Flores
- Ochrosia tahitensisLaness. ex Pichon – Tahiti
- Ochrosia tenimberensisMarkgr. - Tanimbar Islands
- Ochrosia nukuhivensisFosberg & Sachet = Rauvolfia nukuhivensis(Fosberg & Sachet) Lorence & Butaud
- Ochrosia sandwicensisA.DC. = Rauvolfia sandwicensisA.DC.
- Ochrosia tuberculata(Vahl) Pichon = Rauvolfia sandwicensisA.DC.
Myrsine is a genus of flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. It was formerly placed in the family Myrsinaceae before this was merged into the Primulaceae. It is found nearly worldwide, primarily in tropical and subtropical areas. It contains about 200 species, including several notable radiations, such as the matipo of New Zealand and the kōlea of Hawaiʻi. In the United States, members of this genus are known as colicwood. Some species, especially M. africana, are grown as ornamental shrubs.
Andropogon glomeratus is a species of grass known by the common names bushy bluestem and bushy beardgrass. This grass reaches heights approaching two meters and has large, fluffy cream-colored inflorescences. Each dense, tufted inflorescence has several pairs of hairy spikelets. The leaves may reach over a meter in length. This bunchgrass is native to the Americas, where it is widespread. It has also naturalized in other areas.
Francis Raymond "Ray" Fosberg was an American botanist. A prolific collector and author, he played a significant role in the development of coral reef and island studies.
Sclerodactylon is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean.
Dissochondrus, or false bristlegrass, is a genus of Hawaiian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Dissochondrus biflorus.
Echinaria is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family. The only known species is Echinaria capitata, native to the Mediterranean Region as well as the Southwest and Central Asia.
Curculigo orchioides is an endangered flowering plant species in the genus Curculigo. It is native to Nepal, China, Japan, the Indian subcontinent, Papuasia, and Micronesia.
A raised coral atoll or uplifted coral atoll is an atoll that has been lifted high enough above sea level by tectonic forces to protect it from scouring by storms and enable soils and diverse – often endemic – species of flora and fauna to develop. With the exception of Aldabra Island in the Indian Ocean and Henderson Island in the Pacific Ocean, most tropical raised atolls have been dramatically altered by human activities such as species introduction, phosphate mining and even bomb testing.
Lepironia is a genus of the sedge family, comprising only one species, Lepironia articulata, known as the grey sedge. It is found in Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, southern China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and various islands of the western Pacific. It also occurs in northern and eastern Australia, as far south as Thirlmere Lakes National Park in New South Wales.
Dioscorea pentaphylla is a species of flowering plant in the yam family known by the common name fiveleaf yam. It is native to southern and eastern Asia as well as New Guinea and northern Australia. It is widely cultivated as a food crop and naturalized in Cuba and on several island chains in the Pacific.
Rauvolfia nukuhivensis is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is endemic to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.
Cephalomanes atrovirens is a species of fern in the family Hymenophyllaceae. The genus Cephalomanes is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016, but not by some other sources. As of October 2019, Plants of the World Online sank the genus into a broadly defined Trichomanes, while treating the subtaxa of this species as the separate species Trichomanes acrosorum, Trichomanes atrovirens, Trichomanes boryanum and Trichomanes kingii.
Geniostoma sykesii is a species of flowering plant in the family Loganiaceae, endemic to the islands of Mangaia and Mitiaro in the Cook Islands. It grows on makatea terrain. Its dried leaves are used in ‘ei, and used to scent multiple products.
