Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is chaired by Dame Amelia Fawcett.
Ageratum is a genus of 40 to 60 tropical and warm temperate flowering annuals and perennials from the family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae. Most species are native to Central America and Mexico but four are native to the United States.
Enriquebeltrania is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described in 1957. It was initially given the name Beltrania, but this turned out to be an illegitimate homonym. In other words, someone else had already applied the name to a different plant, so this one had to be renamed. The genus is native to western and southern Mexico.
- Enriquebeltrania crenatifolia(Miranda) Rzed. 1979 - Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán
- Enriquebeltrania disjunctaDe-Nova & Sosa 2006 - Jalisco, Sinaloa
Parthenium is a genus of North American shrubs in the sunflower tribe within the daisy family.
Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter is a Mexican botanist. His focus is on Mexican floristics, taxonomy, and ecology.
Heterotheca sessiliflora is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name sessileflower false goldenaster. It is native to California, Sonora, and Baja California.
Astranthium, or Western-daisy, is a North American genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. Astranthium is native to the United States and Mexico.
Microspermum is a genus of Mexican flowering plants in the boneset tribe within the sunflower family.
Zaluzania is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
Rumfordia is a genus of Mesoamerican plants in the blackfoot tribe within the daisy family.
Chrysactinia A. Gray is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, native to Mexico and to the southwestern United States.
The Plant List is a list of botanical names of species of plants created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden and launched in 2010. It was intended to be a comprehensive record of all known names of plant species over time, and was produced in response to Target 1 of the 2002-2010 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, to produce "An online flora of all known plants.” It has not been updated since 2013, and is superseded by World Flora Online.
The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families is an "international collaborative programme that provides the latest peer reviewed and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant families." Maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, it is available online, allowing searches for the names of families, genera and species, as well as the ability to create checklists.
Yucca potosina, English common name Potosí palm soapwort or Potosi palm, Rzed. is a plant species in the family Asparagaceae, native to the east central Mexico from Hidalgo to San Luís Potosí. It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental, but not widely.
Aztecaster is a genus of Mexican flowering plants in the sunflower family.
Bonetiella is a monotypic genus of shrubs in the subfamily Anacardioideae of the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae. It contains the single species Bonetiella anomala, which is endemic to northern and central Mexico.
Plants of the World Online is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by 2020". The initial focus was on tropical African Floras, particularly Flora Zambesiaca, Flora of West Tropical Africa and Flora of Tropical East Africa.
World Flora Online is an Internet-based compendium of the world’s plant species.
Velascoa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Crossosomataceae.
