Elaeocarpus is a genus of nearly five hundred species of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae native to the Western Indian Ocean, Tropical and Subtropical Asia and the Pacific. Plants in the genus Elaeocarpus are trees or shrubs with simple leaves, flowers with four or five usually petals and usually blue fruit.
Ipsea is a genus of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae), with three species that are found in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Adrorhizon purpurascens is a species of orchid. It is the only species in the genus Adrorhizon and one of three genera in the subtribe Adrorhizinae.
Cyanotis is a genus of mainly perennial plants in the family Commelinaceae, first described in 1825. It is native to Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australia.
Blepharispermum is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. They are distributed in Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Sri Lanka.
Isonandra is a genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae found in tropical Asia, described as a genus in 1840.
Corymborkis, commonly known as cinnamon orchids, or 管花兰属 is a genus of eight species of orchids in the family Orchidaceae. They are evergreen, terrestrial plants which grow in clumps and have thin roots, leafy stems, pleated leaves and widely-opening flowers with thin, spreading sepals and petals. They are widely distributed in the tropics.
Vahlia is a genus of herbs and subshrubs that grow in Africa and the Indian subcontinent. There are at least five species.
Microglossa is a genus of Asian and African flowering plants in aster tribe within the sunflower family.
Cottonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae: the only known species is Cottonia peduncularis. It is native to India and Sri Lanka. The genus was erected by Robert Wight and named after Major F. Cotton, an amateur botanist who served in the Madras Engineer Group and collected the species from Tellichery.
Diplocentrum is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It has two known species:
Taprobanea is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. There is only one known species, Taprobanea spathulata, native to India and to Sri Lanka.
Peristylus, sometimes commonly known as ogre orchids or bog orchids is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It consists of over 100 known species found across much of eastern and southern Asia as well as in Australia and on many islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Pteroceras is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.
Schoenorchis, commonly known as flea orchids, or 匙唇兰属 , is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are small epiphytes with thin roots, thin leafy stems with leaves in two ranks and tiny fragrant, almost tube-shaped flowers with a prominently spurred labellum. There are about twenty five species found from tropical and subtropical Asia to the Western Pacific.
Anisomeles is a genus of herbs of the family Lamiaceae and is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, Madagascar, and some Pacific and Indian Ocean islands. Plants in the genus Anisomeles have small, flat, narrow elliptic to narrow eg-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, the edges of the leaves sometimes wavy or serrated. The flowers are arranged in groups, with five sepals and five petals in two "lips", the lower lip with three lobes, the middle lobe much longer than the side lobes. There are four stamens that extend beyond the petals and a single style in a depression on top of the ovary. The fruit is a schizocarp with four nutlets containing small seeds.
Cleghornia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae; its various species are distributed in Borneo, China, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Molineria is a genus of flowering plants. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Hypoxidaceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Papuasia, and Queensland.
- Molineria capitulata(Lour.) Herb. - China, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Queensland; naturalized in Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Argentina, Mauritius, Réunion
- Molineria crassifoliaBaker - Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Sikkim, Yunnan, Arunachal Pradesh
- Molineria gracilisKurz - southern China, Assam, Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
- Molineria latifolia(Dryand. ex W.T.Aiton) Herb. ex Kurz - China, Bangladesh, Indochina, Philippines, western Indonesia
- Molineria oliganthaC.E.C.Fisch. - Assam
- Molineria prainianaDeb - Assam, Bhutan
- Molineria trichocarpa(Wight) N.P.Balakr. - southern India, Sri Lanka
Boesenbergia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It contains about 60-70 species, native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.
Nothosaerva is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae containing the single species Nothosaerva brachiata. It is native to India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, and eastern Africa.
