Cymbopogon, also known as lemongrass, barbed wire grass, silky heads, Cochin grass, Malabar grass, oily heads or fever grass, is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and tropical island plants in the grass family. Some species are commonly cultivated as culinary and medicinal herbs because of their scent, resembling that of lemons . The name cymbopogon derives from the Greek words kymbe and pogon "which mean [that] in most species, the hairy spikelets project from boat-shaped spathes."
Acampe, abbreviated as Acp in horticultural trade, is a genus of monopodial, epiphytic vandaceous species of orchids, distributed from tropical Asia from India, eastwards to China and southwards to Malaysia, and the Philippines as well as from tropical Africa, Madagascar and islands of the Indian Ocean. The name Acampe was derived from the Greek word akampas, meaning "rigid", referring to the small, brittle, inflexible flowers.
Typhonium is a genus in the family Araceae native to eastern and southern Asia, New Guinea, and Australia. It is most often found growing in wooded areas.
- Typhonium acetosellaGagnep. - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Typhonium adnatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium albidinerviumC.Z.Tang & H.Li - Guangdong, Hainan, Laos, Thailand
- Typhonium albispathumBogner - Thailand
- Typhonium alismifoliumF.Muell. - Queensland, Northern Territory
- Typhonium angustilobumF.Muell. - Queensland, New Guinea
- Typhonium bachmaenseV.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam
- Typhonium baoshanenseZ.L.Dao & H.Li - Yunnan
- Typhonium blumeiNicolson & Sivad. - Japan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, much of China, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam; nautralized in Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Borneo, Philippines, West Indies
- Typhonium bognerianumJ.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium browniiSchott - Queensland, New South Wales
- Typhonium bulbiferumDalzell - southern India
- Typhonium circinnatumHett. & J.Mood - Vietnam
- Typhonium cochleareA.Hay - Bangladesh, Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium cordifoliumS.Y.Hu - Thailand
- Typhonium digitatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium echinulatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium eliosurum(F.Muell. ex Benth.) O.D.Evans - New South Wales
- Typhonium filiformeRidl. - Thailand, Malaysia
- Typhonium flagelliforme(G.Lodd.) Blume - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, New Guinea, Queensland, Northern Territory
- Typhonium fultumRidl. - Thailand, Malaysia
- Typhonium gagnepainiiJ.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand, Cambodia
- Typhonium gallowayiHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium glaucumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium griseumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium hayataeSriboonma & J.Murata - Vietnam
- Typhonium huenseNguyen & Croat - Vietnam
- Typhonium hunanenseH.Li & Z.Q.Liu - Hunan
- Typhonium inopinatumPrain - India, Myanmar, Thailand
- Typhonium jinpingenseZ.L.Wang, H.Li & F.H.Bian - Yunnan
- Typhonium johnsonianumA.Hay & S.M.Taylor - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium jonesiiA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium laoticumGagnep. - Thailand, Laos
- Typhonium liliifoliumF.Muell. ex Schott - Northern Territory, Western Australia
- Typhonium lineareHett. & V.D.Nguyen - Vietnam
- Typhonium listeriPrain - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar
- Typhonium medusaeHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium mirabile(A.Hay) A.Hay - Melville Island of Australia
- Typhonium neogracileJ.Murata - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar
- Typhonium nudibaccatumA.Hay - Western Australia
- Typhonium orbifoliumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium pedatisectumGage - Myanmar
- Typhonium pedunculatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium peltandroidesA.Hay, M.D.Barrett & R.L.Barrett - Western Australia
- Typhonium penicillatumV.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam
- Typhonium pottingeriPrain - Myanmar
- Typhonium praecoxJ.Murata - Myanmar
- Typhonium praetermissumA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium pusillumSookch., V.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Thailand
- Typhonium reflexumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium roxburghiiSchott - Taiwan, Yunnan, Bonin Islands, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, western Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea; naturalized in Western Australia, eastern Brazil, Tanzania
- Typhonium russell-smithiiA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium sagittariifoliumGagnep. - Thailand
- Typhonium saraburiensisSookch., Hett. & J.Murata - Thailand
- Typhonium sinhabaedyaeHett. & A.Galloway - Thailand
- Typhonium smitinandiiSookch. & J.Murata - Thailand
- Typhonium stigmatilobatumV.D.Nguyen - Vietnam
- Typhonium subglobosumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium tayloriiA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium trifoliatumF.T.Wang & H.S.Lo ex H.Li, Y.Shiao & S.L.Tseng - Mongolia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi
- Typhonium trilobatum(L.) Schott - southern China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina; naturalized in Windward Islands, Ivory Coast, Borneo, Philippines
- Typhonium tubispathumHett. & A.Galloway - Thailand
- Typhonium variansHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium vermiformeV.D.Nguyen & Croat - Vietnam
- Typhonium violifoliumGagnep. - Myanmar, Thailand
- Typhonium watanabeiJ.Murata, Sookch. & Hett. - Thailand
- Typhonium weipanumA.Hay - Queensland
- Typhonium wilbertiiA.Hay
Cleistanthus is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae, tribe Bridelieae, first described as a genus in 1848. It is widespread in much of the Old World Tropics in Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands. Cleistanthus collinus is known for being toxic and may be the agent of homicides or suicides.
Gmelina is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae. It consists of about 35 species in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Southeast Asia, India and a few in Africa. Some species such as G. arborea have been planted and/or become naturalised in India, Africa and Australia. It was named by Carl Linnaeus in honour of botanist Johann Georg Gmelin.
Themeda is a genus of plants in the grass family native to Asia, Africa, Australia, and Papuasia. There are about 18 to 26 species, many of which are native to Southeast Asia.
Utricularia uliginosa, the Asian bladderwort, is a small annual carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is native to Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Australia. U. uliginosa grows as a terrestrial or subaquatic plant in seasonally flooded shallow pools with sandy soils or on banks and among rocky stream beds at low altitudes. It was originally described by Martin Vahl in 1804.
Arundinella is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, common in many tropical and subtropical regions.
Coelachne is a genus of Asian, African, and Australian plants in the grass family.
Scrotochloa is a genus of Asian, Australian, and Papuasian plants in the grass family.
Thuarea is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Asia, Africa, Australia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Tripogon is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family. They are widespread across Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Fiveminute grass is a common name for plants in this genus.
Dimeria is a genus of Asian, Australian, Madagascan, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family. Many of the species are endemic to India.
Eragrostiella is a genus of Asian, African, and Australian plants in the grass family.
Eremochloa is a genus of Asian and Australian plants in the grass family.
Garnotia is a genus of Asian, Australian, and tropical island plants in the grass family. Several of the species are native to Sri Lanka and southern India.
Isachne is a widespread genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family, found in Asia, Africa, Australia, the Americas, and various oceanic islands. They may be known generally as bloodgrasses.
Hygroryza (watergrass) is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family.
Geodorum, commonly known as shepherds' crooks or 地宝兰属 , is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. They are deciduous, terrestrial herbs with underground pseudobulbs, broad, pleated leaves and small to medium-sized, tube-shaped or bell-shaped flowers on a flowering stem with a drooping end. Species in this genus are found in southern Japan, tropical Asia, Australia and islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean.
Murdannia is a genus of annual or perennial monocotyledonous flowering plants in the dayflower family.
