Otatea, called weeping bamboo, is a genus of clumping bamboos in the grass family, native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia.
Hechtia is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, and is the sole genus of the subfamily Hechtioideae, containing 75 species. Its species are native to Mexico, Central America, and Texas.
Maianthemum includes the former genus Smilacina and is a genus of perennial herbaceous flowering plants with fleshy, persistent rhizomes. It is widespread across much of North America, Europe and Asia, and may be terrestrial, aquatic or epiphytic. It is characterized by simple, unbranched stems that are upright, leaning or hanging down and have 2–17 foliage leaves. Leaves are simple and may clasp the stem or be short-petiolate. The inflorescence is terminal and either a panicle or a raceme with few to many pedicelate flowers. Most species have 6 tepals and 6 stamens; a few have parts in 4s. Tepals are distinct in most species and all of similar size. Flowers are spreading, cup-shaped or bell-shaped and usually white, but lavender to red or green in some species. Fruits are rounded to lobed berries containing few to several seeds.
Barkeria, abbreviated Bark in horticultural trade, is a genus of orchids. It consists of about 17 currently recognized species native to Mexico and Central America. This genus was once considered part of Epidendrum. Type species is Barkeria elegans; this is now considered a synonym of B. uniflora yet retains its status as type per ICN.
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.
The emergence of metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica occurred relatively late in the region's history, with distinctive works of metal apparent in West Mexico by roughly 800 CE, and perhaps as early as 600 CE. Metallurgical techniques likely diffused northward from regions in Central or South America via maritime trade routes; recipients of these metallurgical technologies apparently exploited a wide range of material, including alloys of copper-silver, copper-arsenic, copper-tin and copper-arsenic-tin.
Hymenocallis (US) or (UK) is a genus of American plants in the amaryllis family.
Trixis is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Pitcairnia is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae. It was named for William Pitcairn, Scottish physician and gardener (1711–1791). The genus Pitcairnia ranks as the second most prolific of the bromeliad family. They are most abundant in Colombia, Peru and Brazil, but can also be found in areas from Cuba and Mexico south to Argentina. One species, Pitcairnia feliciana, is found in tropical West Africa and is the only member of the family Bromeliaceae not native to the Americas.
Orthrosanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae first described as a genus in 1827. It native to Australia, Mexico, Central and South America.
Nemastylis, or pleatleaf, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1835. It is native to Mexico, Central America, and the southern part of the United States. The genus name is derived from the Greek words nema, meaning "thread", and stylos, meaning "pillar" or "rod".
Tridax is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Trigonospermum is a genus of Mesoamerican plants in the family Asteraceae.
Simsia is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae. It includes annuals, herbaceous perennials, and shrubs. They range from the western United States south through Central and South America to Argentina, with the center of diversity occurring in Mexico. The genus is named for British physician and botanist John Sims (1749–1831). Although some species are relatively rare, others have become common weeds that line the roadsides and fields of Mexico, often forming dense stands mixed with Tithonia and other Asteraceae. Some species are known by the common name bushsunflower.
Perymenium is a genus of South American and Mesoamerican plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae.
Deiregyne is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, native to Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
Echeandia is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.
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
Dictyanthus is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1844. It is native to Mexico and Central America
