Coccocypselum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America. All species of the genus Coccocypselum are herbaceous with fleshy, blue or purple fruits, and 4-petaled flowers.
Acanthospermum humile is a species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the West Indies but naturalized in parts of South America, Central America, and North America.
Balmea is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae containing the single species Balmea stormiae. It is native to El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. It is locally known as ayuque. It is conical in shape and used as a Christmas tree in parts of Mexico. Because populations are depleted by this overharvest, this species is threatened with extinction.
Spermacoce or false buttonweed is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises about 275 species found throughout the tropics and subtropics. Its highest diversity is found in the Americas, followed by Africa, Australia and Asia.
Cephalanthus salicifolius is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. Common names include Mexican buttonbush, mimbre, botoncillo, and Jazmin blanco. Its native range extends from the banks of the southernmost stretch of the Rio Grande in Cameron and Hidalgo Counties of Texas through much of Mexico from Coahuila to Oaxaca; a disjunct population exists in Honduras.
Synedrella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Crusea is a genus of angiosperms in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in the south-western United States, Mexico, and Central America. A few species are naturalized in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Ardisia escallonioides, the Island marlberry, is a plant species native to the West Indies and neighboring areas. It has been reported from Barbados, Bermuda, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Florida.
Randia nicaraguensis is a plant species endemic to Nicaragua. It occurs in tropical drought-deciduous forests at elevations below 850 m.
Pinochia monteverdensis is a plant species native to Costa Rica, Guatemala and Oaxaca.
Bouvardia ternifolia, the firecracker bush, is a shrub widespread across much of Mexico, the range extending south into Honduras and north into the southwestern United States.
Galium orizabense is a species of plants in the family Rubiaceae, named for the town of Orizaba in Veracruz, where the first collections of the species were made. The species is native to Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panamá, Venezuela, Colombia, and Hispaniola, plus widely scattered locations in the southeastern United States.
Spermacoce glabra, smooth false buttonweed, is a New World species of plants in the coffee family.
Asterohyptis is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, or mint family, first described in 1932. It is native to Mexico and Central America.
- Asterohyptis mocinoana(Benth.) Epling - widespread from Veracruz to Costa Rica
- Asterohyptis nayaranaB.L.Turner - Durango, Nayarit
- Asterohyptis seemannii(A.Gray) Epling - Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa
- Asterohyptis stellulata(Benth.) Epling - from Sinaloa and Durango south to Honduras
Cornutia is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1753. Species in this genus are native to tropical parts of the Western Hemisphere, including southern Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and northern South America.
Cunila is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1759. It is native to North and South America.
- Cunila angustifoliaBenth. - southern Brazil, Misiones Province of Argentina
- Cunila crenataGarcía-Peña & Tenorio - State of Durango in Mexico
- Cunila fasciculataBenth. - southern Brazil
- Cunila galioidesBenth. - Brazil
- Cunila incanaBenth. - southern Brazil, Argentina
- Cunila incisaBenth. - southern Brazil
- Cunila leucanthaKunth ex Schltdl. & Cham. - Mexico, Central America
- Cunila lythrifoliaBenth. - central + southern Mexico
- Cunila menthiformisEpling - southern Brazil
- Cunila menthoidesBenth. - Uruguay
- Cunila microcephalaBenth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
- Cunila origanoides(L.) Britton - central + eastern United States from Texas and Kansas east to New York and Georgia
- Cunila platyphyllaEpling - southern Brazil
- Cunila polyanthaBenth. - Mexico, Central America
- Cunila pycnanthaB.L.Rob. & Greenm. - Mexico
- Cunila ramamoorthianaM.R.Garcia-Pena - Mexico (Guerrero)
- Cunila spicataBenth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
- Cunila tenuifoliaEpling - southern Brazil
Marsypianthes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1833. It is native to South America, Central America, the West Indies, and southern Mexico.
- Marsypianthes burchelliiEpling - Brazil
- Marsypianthes chamaedrys(Vahl) Kuntze. - from southern Mexico and the West Indies south to Argentina
- Marsypianthes foliolosaBenth. - Brazil
- Marsypianthes hassleriBriq. - Paraguay, southern Brazil, Misiones Province of Argentina
- Marsypianthes montanaBenth. - Brazil
Laubertia, a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, was first described 1844. They are native to Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Prosopanche is a group of parasitic plants described as a genus in 1868.
Prunus myrtifolia, called the West Indies cherry or myrtle laurel cherry, is a New World species of shrubs in the family Rosaceae.
