Hordeum is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family. They are native throughout the temperate regions of Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas.
Aa is a genus of plants of the family Orchidaceae.
Nothoscordum is a genus of New World plants in the onion tribe within the Amaryllis family. It is probably paraphyletic. The genus is native to North and South America, though a few species have become naturalized in various parts of the Old World.
Cortaderia is a genus of South American and Central American plants in the Poaceae grass family.
Chusquea is a genus of evergreen bamboos in the grass family. Most of them are native to mountain habitats in Latin America, from Mexico to southern Chile and Argentina.
Portulaca is the type genus of the flowering plant family Portulacaceae, with over 100 species, found in the tropics and warm temperate regions. They are known as the purslanes.
Drimys is a genus of seven species of woody evergreen flowering plants, in the family Winteraceae. The species are native to the Neotropics, ranging from southern Mexico to the southern tip of South America. They are primitive dicots, associated with the humid temperate Antarctic flora of the Southern Hemisphere, which evolved millions of years ago on the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana. Members of the family generally have aromatic bark and leaves, and some are used to extract essential oils.
Schinus is a genus of flowering trees and tall shrubs in the sumac family, Anacardiaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as pepper trees. The Peruvian pepper tree is the source of the spice known as pink peppercorn.
Spartium junceum, known as Spanish broom, rush broom, or weaver's broom, it is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and the sole species in the genus Spartium. It is closely related to the other brooms.
Deuterocohnia is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae, endemic to South America. The genus is named for Ferdinand Julius Cohn, Jewish botanist and bacteriologist.
Olsynium is a genus of summer-dormant rhizomatous perennial flowering plants in the iris family Iridaceae, native to sunny hillsides in South America and western North America.
Lepechinia is a genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It includes several species of plants known commonly as pitchersages. Plants of this genus can be found in Central and South America, Mexico, California, Hispaniola, and Hawaii, although the species in Hawaii is probably a human introduction. Many of them bear attractive pitcher-shaped flowers, often in shades of purple. The genus was named for the Russian botanist Ivan Ivanovich Lepechin. Recently, the two monotypic genera Chaunostoma and Neoeplingia were shown to be part of Lepechinia.
- Lepechinia anomalaEpling - southern Brazil
- Lepechinia bellaEpling - Bolivia
- Lepechinia betonicaefolia(Lam.) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador
- Lepechinia bullata (Kunth) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
- Lepechinia calycina(Benth.) Epling ex Munz – pitcher sage, woodbalm - California
- Lepechinia cardiophyllaEpling – Santa Ana pitcher sage - southern California, Baja California
- Lepechinia caulescens(Ortega) Epling - Mexico, Guatemala
- Lepechinia chamaedryoides(Balb.) Epling - Chile
- Lepechinia cocuyensisJ.R.I.Wood - Colombia
- Lepechinia codonEpling - Peru
- Lepechinia conferta(Benth.) Epling - Colombia, Venezuela
- Lepechinia dioicaJ.A.Hart - Ecuador
- Lepechinia flammeaMart.Gord. & Lozada-Pérez - Guerrero
- Lepechinia floribunda(Benth.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Lepechinia fragrans(Greene) Epling – island pitcher sage, fragrant pitcher sage - southern California including offshore Channel Islands
- Lepechinia ganderiEpling – San Diego pitcher sage - southern California, Baja California
- Lepechinia glomerataEpling - Jalisco
- Lepechinia hastata(A.Gray) Epling – pakata - Baja California and Baja California Sur, including Revillagigedo Islands; naturalized in Hawaii
- Lepechinia heteromorpha (Briq.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
- Lepechinia lamiifolia(Benth.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru
- Lepechinia lancifolia(Rusby) Epling - Bolivia
- Lepechinia leucophylloides(Ramamoorthy, Hiriart & Medrano) B.T.Drew, Cacho & Sytsma - Hidalgo
- Lepechinia maricaEpling & Mathias - Peru
- Lepechinia mecistandra(Donn.Sm.) H.K.Moon - Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador
- Lepechinia mexicana(S.Schauer) Epling - central + northeastern Mexico
- Lepechinia meyenii(Walp.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Lepechinia mollis(Epling) Epling - Peru
- Lepechinia mutica(Benth.) Epling - Ecuador
- Lepechinia nelsonii(Fernald) Epling - central + southern Mexico
- Lepechinia paniculata(Kunth) Epling - Ecuador
- Lepechinia radula (Benth.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru
- Lepechinia rossiiS.Boyd & Mistretta – Ross' pitcher sage - southern California
- Lepechinia rufocampiiEpling & Mathias - Ecuador
- Lepechinia salviae(Lindl.) Epling - Chile
- Lepechinia salviifolia(Kunth) Epling - Colombia, Venezuela
- Lepechinia schiedeana(Schltdl.) Vatke - Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
- Lepechinia scobinaEpling - Peru
- Lepechinia speciosa(A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Epling - southern Brazil
- Lepechinia tomentosa(Benth.) Epling - Peru
- Lepechinia urbani (Briq.) Epling - Hispaniola
- Lepechinia velutinaJ.R.I.Wood - Colombia
- Lepechinia vesiculosa(Benth.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Lepechinia vulcanicolaJ.R.I.Wood - Colombia
- Lepechinia yecoranaHenrickson, Fishbein & T.Van Devender - Sonora
The southern viscacha is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It is a colonial animal living in small groups in rocky mountain areas. It has long ears and hind legs and resembles a rabbit in appearance apart from its long, bushy tail, but is not a lagomorph.
Nothoprocta is a genus of birds belonging to the tinamou family Tinamidae. They inhabit scrubland, grassland and open woodland in western South America, particularly in the Andes. They are poor fliers and spend most of their time on the ground. Their diet includes seeds and insects. They nest on the ground, laying large glossy eggs. The eggs are covered with feathers when a potential predator is nearby.
Polypogon is a nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, commonly known beard grass or rabbitsfoot grass.
Chersodoma is a genus of South American flowering plants in the daisy family. Members of this genus or dioecious shrubs or subshrubs.
Munroa is a genus of New World plants in the grass family, native to North and South America.
Lophopappus is a genus of South American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Philibertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819. It is native to South America.
