The Verbenaceae, the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs, and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell.
Ochnaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. In the APG III system of classification of flowering plants, Ochnaceae is defined broadly, to include about 550 species, and encompasses what some taxonomists have treated as the separate families Medusagynaceae and Quiinaceae. In a phylogenetic study that was published in 2014, Ochnaceae was recognized in the broad sense, but two works published after APG III have accepted the small families Medusagynaceae and Quiinaceae. These have not been accepted by APG IV (2016).
Erythroxylum (Erythroxylon) is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Erythroxylaceae. Many of the approximately 200 species contain the tropane alkaloid cocaine, and two of the species within this genus, Erythroxylum coca and Erythroxylum novogranatense, both native to South America, are the main commercial source of cocaine and of the mild stimulant coca tea. Another species, Erythroxylum vaccinifolium is used as an aphrodisiac in Brazilian drinks and herbal medicine.
Cleome is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cleomaceae, commonly known as spider flowers, spider plants, spider weeds, or bee plants. Previously, it had been placed in the family Capparaceae, until DNA studies found the Cleomaceae genera to be more closely related to the Brassicaceae than the Capparaceae. Cleome and clammyweed can sometimes be confused.
Andira is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is distributed in the tropical Americas, except for A. inermis, which also occurs in Africa. It was formerly assigned to the tribe Dalbergieae, but molecular phylogenetic studies in 2012 and 2013 placed it in a unique clade within subfamily Faboideae named the Andira clade.
Tachigali is a flowering plant genus in the legume family (Fabaceae). It includes 74 species of trees native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Nicaragua to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest, lower montane forest, seasonally-flooded and non-flooded evergreen lowland forest and woodland, gallery and riparian forest, sometimes on white sands, cerrado and other dry woodland, and rocky grassland.
Harpalyce is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It includes 35 species of shrubs and small trees native to the tropical Americas. Their distribution is disjunct, ranging from Mexico to Nicaragua, Cuba, and northern to southeastern Brazil and Bolivia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest, warm-temperate humid forest, woodland, bushland and thicket, shrubland, and grassland. Most species are evergreen and flower during the dry season.
Luetzelburgia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 14 species of trees and shrubs native to Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia. Typical habitat is seasonally-dry tropical lowland woodland and wooded grassland, and occasionally lowland rain forests. The genus belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae, mainly on the basis of flower morphology; recent molecular phylogenetic analyses assigned Luetzelburgia into an informal, monophyletic clade called the "vataireoids". Keys for the different species of Luetzelburgia have been published.
Elvasia is a Neotropical genus of plants in the family Ochnaceae. It includes 14 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Belize to Bolivia and southeastern Brazil.
The tribe Dalbergieae is an early-branching clade within the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae. Within that subfamily, it belongs to an unranked clade called the dalbergioids. It was recently revised to include many genera formerly placed in tribes Adesmieae and Aeschynomeneae and to be included in a monophyletic group informally known as the dalbergioids sensu lato. The members of this tribe have a distinctive root nodule morphology, often referred to as an "aeschynomenoid" or "dalbergioid" nodule.
Staminodianthus is a genus of trees found in South America. It includes three species of trees, from small trees to six meters tall to large trees up to 40 m tall. They are native to the Amazon Basin of northern Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela, where they grow in humid non-flooded terra-firme forests on sandy or sandy loam soils, gallery forests, and highland savannas.
Hypenia is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1988. It is native to South America and southern Mexico.
- Hypenia aristulata(Epling) Harley - Goiás
- Hypenia brachystachys(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - southern Brazil
- Hypenia calycina(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia concinna(Benth.) Harley - Tocantins
- Hypenia crispata(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - Goiás
- Hypenia densiflora(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia durifolia(Epling) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia gardneriana(Benth.) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia glauca(A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil, Paraguay
- Hypenia inelegans(Epling) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia irregularis(Benth.) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia macrantha(A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia macrosiphon(Briq.) Harley - Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia
- Hypenia marifolia(Benth.) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia micrantha(Benth.) Harley - Mato Grosso
- Hypenia paniculata(Benth.) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia paradisi(Harley) Harley - Goiás
- Hypenia pauliana(Epling) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia perplexa(Epling) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia pruinosa(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil
- Hypenia reticulata(Mart. ex Benth.) Harley - eastern Brazil
- Hypenia salzmannii(Benth.) Harley - Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela
- Hypenia simplex(A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore - Brazil
- Hypenia subrosea(Harley) Harley - Goiás
- Hypenia violaceaMart.Gord. & S.Valencia - Guerrero, Oaxaca
Ctenodon is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae). It includes 64 species which range from the southern United States through Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and northern South America as far as northeastern Argentina.
Luxemburgia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ochnaceae.
Pombalia Vand. is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Violaceae.
Davilla is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Dilleniaceae. It has around 30 neotropical, species and is one of most diverse genera of lianas, vines, erect or scandent shrubs.
