Arisaema is a large and diverse genus of the flowering plant family Araceae. The largest concentration of species is in China and Japan, with other species native to other parts of southern Asia as well as eastern and central Africa, Mexico and eastern North America. Asiatic species are often called cobra lilies, while western species are often called jack-in-the-pulpit; both names refer to the distinctive appearance of the flower, which consists of an erect central spadix rising from a spathe.
Adenophora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, the bellflowers. Plants of this genus are known commonly as ladybells. Most are native to eastern Asia, with a few in Europe. Many are endemic to either China or Siberia.
Osmanthus is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae. Most of the species are native to eastern Asia with a few species from the Caucasus, New Caledonia, and Sumatra. Osmanthus has been known in China since ancient times with the earliest writings coming from the Warring States period; the book Sea and Mountain. South Mountain states: "Zhaoyao Mountain had a lot of Osmanthus".
Tainia, commonly known as ribbon orchids or 带唇兰属 is a genus of about thirty species of evergreen, terrestrial orchids in the distributed from India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Queensland.
Trachelospermumstar jasmine, Confederate jasmine, is a genus of evergreen woody vines in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1851. All species are native to southern and eastern Asia.
Paris is a genus of flowering plants described by Linnaeus in 1753. It is widespread across Europe and Asia, with a center of diversity in China.
Anoectochilus, commonly known as marbled jewel orchids or filigree orchids, is a genus of about fifty species in the orchid family Orchidaceae. They are terrestrial herbs with a creeping rhizome, an upright flowering stem and dark coloured leaves with contrasting veins. The flowers are relatively large and have a large labellum, markedly different from the sepals and petals.
Odontochilus is a small genus from the orchid family (Orchidaceae). These terrestrial, mycoparasitic orchids occur from China, Japan, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Melanesia. The genus is related to Gonatostylis, endemic to New Caledonia.
Phoebe is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. There are 75 accepted species in the genus, distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia and New Guinea. 35 species occur in China, of which 27 are endemic. The first description of the genus was of the type species P. lanceolata made in 1836 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in Systema Laurinarum, p. 98.
Herminium is a genus of plants in family Orchidaceae, widespread across much of Europe and Asia.
Panisea is a genus of plant in family Orchidaceae. It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Indochina.
Premna is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
- Premna acuminataR.Br. - Australia, New Guinea
- Premna acutataW.W.Sm. - southwestern China
- Premna albaH.J.Lam - Palau
- Premna ambongensisMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna amplectensWall. ex Schauer - Thailand, Myanmar
- Premna angolensisGürke - tropical Africa
- Premna angustifloraH.J.Lam - Palau
- Premna annulataH.R.Fletcher - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
- Premna aureolepidotaMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna balakrishnaniiA.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu
- Premna balansaeDop - Vietnam
- Premna barbataWall. ex Schauer - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar
- Premna bengalensisC.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Premna bequaertiiMoldenke - Uganda, Rwanda, Zaïre
- Premna bracteataWall. ex C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar
- Premna cambodianaDop - Cambodia, Vietnam
- Premna cavalerieiH.Lév - China
- Premna chevalieriDop - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China
- Premna chrysoclada(Bojer) Gürke - Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau
- Premna collinsaeCraib - Thailand
- Premna confinisC.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China
- Premna congolensisMoldenke - Zaïre, Angola, Cabinda
- Premna cordifoliaRoxb. - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya
- Premna coriaceaC.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Andaman Islands
- Premna corymbosaRottler - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
- Premna crassaHand.-Mazz. - Vietnam, China
- Premna debianaA.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Arunachal Pradesh
- Premna decaryiMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna decurrensH.J.Lam - Indonesia
- Premna discolorVerdc. - Kenya
- Premna dubiaCraib - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Premna esculentaRoxb. - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand
- Premna fohaiensisC.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
- Premna fordiiDunn - China
- Premna fulvaCraib - Indochina, Indonesia, China
- Premna garrettiiH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
- Premna glaberrimaWight - southern India
- Premna glandulosaHand.-Mazz. - China (Yunnan)
- Premna gracillimaVerdc. - Kenya, Tanzania
- Premna grandifoliaA.D.J. Meeuse, illegitimate name, = Premna hutchinsonii
- Premna grossaWall. ex Schauer - Myanmar
- Premna guillauminiiMoldenke - New Caledonia
- Premna hainanensisChun & F.C.How - China (Hainan)
- Premna hans-joachimiiVerdc. - Tanzania
- Premna henryana(Hand.-Mazz.) C.Y.Wu - China
- Premna herbaceaRoxb. - Himalayas, Yunnan, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Australia
- Premna hildebrandtiiGürke - Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
- Premna hispidaBenth. - West Africa
- Premna humbertiiMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna hutchinsoniiMoldenke - Ivory Coast
- Premna interruptaWall. ex Schauer - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina
- Premna jalpaigurianaT.K.Paul - West Bengal
- Premna khasianaC.B.Clarke - Assam, Thailand
- Premna lepidellaMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna ligustroidesHemsl - China
- Premna longiacuminataMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna longifoliaRoxb. - Himalayas
- Premna longipetiolataMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna lucensA.Chev. - West Africa
- Premna macrophyllaWall. ex Schauer - Assam, Indochina
- Premna madagascariensisMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna mariannarumSchauer - Mariana Islands
- Premna matadiensisMoldenke - Zaïre, Angola
- Premna maximaT.C.E. Fr. - Kenya
- Premna mekongensisW.W.Sm. - China (Yunnan)
- Premna micranthaSchauer - India, Assam, Bangladesh
- Premna microphyllaTurcz. - Japan, Ryukyu Islands, China
- Premna millefloraC.B.Clarke - Assam
- Premna milneiBaker - Nigeria, Bioko
- Premna minorDomin - Queensland
- Premna mollissimaRoth - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Indochina, Philippines
- Premna mooiensis(H.Pearson) W.Piep - Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
- Premna mortehaniiDe Wild - Zaïre
- Premna mundanthuraiensisA.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu
- Premna neurophyllaChiov. - Ethiopia
- Premna oblongataMiq. - Indonesia, Philippines
- Premna odorataBlanco - - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia; naturalized in Miami-Dade County in Florida
- Premna oliganthaC.Y.Wu - China
- Premna oligotrichaBaker - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
- Premna orangeanaCapuron - Madagascar
- Premna paisehensisC.Pei & S.L.Chen - China (Guangxi)
- Premna pallescensRidl.- Borneo, Indonesia
- Premna parasiticaBlume - Indonesia
- Premna parvilimbaC.Pei - China (Yunnan)
- Premna paucinervis(C.B.Clarke) Gamble - Kerala, Tamil Nadu
- Premna paulobarbataH.J.Lam - Mariana Islands
- Premna perplexansMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna perrieriMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna pinguisC.B.Clarke - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Java
- Premna politaHiern - Angola
- Premna procumbensMoon - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
- Premna protrusaA.C.Sm. & S.Darwin - Fiji
- Premna puberulaPamp. - China
- Premna pubescensBlume - Indonesia, Philippines, Christmas Island
- Premna puerensisY.Y.Qian - China (Yunnan)
- Premna punduanaWall. ex Schauer - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
- Premna puniceaC.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
- Premna purpurascensThwaites - Sri Lanka
- Premna quadrifoliaSchumach. & Thonn. - West Africa
- Premna rabakensisMoldenke - Cambodia
- Premna regularisH.J.Lam - Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea
- Premna repensH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
- Premna resinosa(Hochst.) Schauer - East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India
- Premna richardsiaeMoldenke - Tanzania
- Premna rubroglandulosaC.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
- Premna scandensRoxb. - China (Yunnan), Himalayas, Andaman Island, Indochina
- Premna schimperiEngl - East Africa
- Premna schliebeniiWerderm. - Tanzania, Mozambique
- Premna scoriarumW.W.Sm. - Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar
- Premna senensisKlotzsch - eastern + central Africa
- Premna serrataH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
- Premna serratifoliaL. - widespread in East Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans
- Premna siamensisH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
- Premna stenobotrysMerr. - Vietnam
- Premna steppicolaHand.-Mazz. - China
- †Premna sterculiifoliaKing & Gamble - Malaya but extinct
- Premna straminicaulisC.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
- Premna subcapitataRehder - China
- Premna sulphurea(Baker) Gürke - Angola
- Premna sunyiensisC.Pei - China (Guangdong)
- Premna szemaoensisPei - China (Yunnan)
- Premna tahitensisJ.Schauer - many islands of the Pacific
- Premna tanganyikensisMoldenke - Tanzania, Mozambique
- Premna tapintzeanaDop - China (Yunnan)
- Premna teniiC.Pei - China (Yunnan)
- Premna thoreliiDop - Laos
- Premna thwaitesiiC.B.Clarke - Sri Lanka
- Premna tomentosaWilld. - Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Queensland, Solomon Islands
- Premna trichostomaMiq. - Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea
- Premna urticifoliaRehder - China (Yunnan)
- Premna velutinaGürke - Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
- Premna venulosaMoldenke - Madagascar
- Premna wightianaSchauer - India, Sri Lanka
- Premna wuiBoufford & B.M.Barthol. - China (Yunnan)
- Premna yunnanensisW.W.Sm - China
Neottia is a genus of orchids. The genus now includes the former genus Listera, commonly known as twayblades referring to the single pair of opposite leaves at the base of the flowering stem. The genus is native to temperate, subarctic and arctic regions across most of Europe, northern Asia, and North America, with a few species extending into subtropical regions in the Mediterranean, Indochina, the southeastern United States, etc.
Mycaranthes is a genus of orchids. It was previously considered as a synonym of the genus Eria, but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to Southeast Asia, China, the Himalayas and New Guinea.
Ponerorchis is a genus of Asian terrestrial tuberous orchids. It is native to temperate Eurasia, from Poland to Japan, to the north of the Indian subcontinent and to northern Indochina.
Sauromatum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The genus is native to tropical Africa, tropical Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula. Their inflorescences last for only a few hours to a day and give off an unpleasant smell. The inflorescence disperses its odor by heating up.
- Sauromatum brevipes(Hook.f.) N.E.Br. - Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam
- Sauromatum brevipilosum(Hett. & Sizemore) Cusimano & Hett. - Sumatra
- Sauromatum diversifolium(Wall. ex Schott) Cusimano & Hett. - eastern Himalayas, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar, Cambodia
- Sauromatum gaoligongenseJ.C.Wang & H.Li - Yunnan
- Sauromatum giganteum(Engl.) Cusimano & Hett. - Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Tibet
- Sauromatum hirsutum(S.Y.Hu) Cusimano & Hett. - Yunnan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Sauromatum horsfieldiiMiq. - Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Sumatra, Java, Bali
- Sauromatum tentaculatum(Hett.) Cusimano & Hett. - Thailand
- Sauromatum venosum(Dryand. ex Aiton) Kunth - tropical Africa from Ethiopia south to Mozambique and west to Cameroon; Yemen, Saudi Arabia; Indian Subcontinent; Myanmar; Tibet, Yunnan
Pholidota, commonly known as rattlesnake orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are clump-forming epiphytes or lithophytes with pseudobulbs, each with a single large leaf and a large number of small, whitish flowers arranged in two ranks along a thin, wiry flowering stem that emerges from the top of the pseudobulb. There are about thirty five species native to areas from tropical and subtropical Asia to the southwestern Pacific.
Myrmechis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to eastern and southeastern Asia from the Kuril Islands south to New Guinea, west to the Himalayas.
- Myrmechis aurea(J.J.Sm.) Schuit. - Maluku
- Myrmechis bakhimensisD.Maity, N.Pradhan & Maiti - Sikkim
- Myrmechis bilobulifera(J.J.Sm.) Schuit. - Sulawesi
- Myrmechis chalmersii(Schltr.) Schuit. - New Guinea
- Myrmechis chinensisRolfe - Sichuan, Hubei, Fujian
- Myrmechis drymoglossifoliaHayata - Taiwan
- Myrmechis glabraBlume - Java
- Myrmechis gracilis(Blume) Blume - Java, Sumatra, Philippines
- Myrmechis japonica(Rchb.f.) Rolfe - Japan, Korea, Kuril Islands, Fujian, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan
- Myrmechis kinabaluensisCarr - Sabah
- Myrmechis perpusillaAmes - Luzon
- Myrmechis philippinensiisAmes - Philippines
- Myrmechis pumila(Hook.f.) Tang & F.T.Wang - Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
- Myrmechis quadrilobata(Schltr.) Schuit. - Sulawesi
- Myrmechis seranicaJ.J.Sm. - Seram
- Myrmechis tsukusianaMasam. - Yakushima
- Myrmechis urceolataTang & K.Y.Lang - Yunnan, Guangdong, Hainan
Oreorchis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to Asia. Species currently accepted as of June 2014:
- Oreorchis angustataL.O.Williams ex N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Oreorchis aurantiacaP.J.Cribb & N.Pearce - Myanmar
- Oreorchis bilamellataFukuy. - Taiwan
- Oreorchis discigeraW.W.Sm. - Myanmar
- Oreorchis erythrochryseaHand.-Mazz. - Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan
- Oreorchis fargesiiFinet - Fujian, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
- Oreorchis foliosa(Lindl.) Lindl. - India, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tibet, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan
- Oreorchis itoana(F.Maek.) Perner - Honshu
- Oreorchis micranthaLindl. - Tibet, Taiwan, Assam, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar
- Oreorchis nanaSchltr. - Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei
- Oreorchis nepalensisN.Pearce & P.J.Cribb - Nepal, Tibet
- Oreorchis oliganthaSchltr. - Gansu, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan
- Oreorchis parvulaSchltr. - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Oreorchis patens(Lindl.) Lindl. - Japan, Korea, Russian Far East, China
- Oreorchis porphyranthesTuyama - Nepal
- Oreorchis sanguinea(N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb) N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb - Bhutan
Elsholtzia is a plant genus in the Lamiaceae. It is widespread across much of temperate and tropical Asia from Siberia south to China, Northeastern India, Indonesia, etc. The genus was named in honour of the Prussian naturalist Johann Sigismund Elsholtz.
- Elsholtzia amurensisProb. - Amur region of Russia
- Elsholtzia angustifolia(Loes.) Kitag. - Korea, Manchuria
- Elsholtzia argyiH.Lév. - southern China, Vietnam
- Elsholtzia beddomeiC.B.Clarke ex Hook.f. - Myanmar, Thailand
- Elsholtzia blanda(Benth.) Benth. - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina, Sumatra, Viet Nam
- Elsholtzia bodinieriVaniot - Guizhou, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia byeonsanensisM.Kim - South Korea
- Elsholtzia capituligeraC.Y.Wu - Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia cephalanthaHand.-Mazz. - Sichuan
- Elsholtzia ciliata(Thunb.) Hyl. - widespread across Siberia, Russian Far East, China, India, Himalayas, Japan, Korea, Indochina
- Elsholtzia communis(Collett & Hemsl.) Diels - Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Elsholtzia concinnaVautier - Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan
- Elsholtzia cyprianii(Pavol.) C.Y.Wu & S.Chow - central + southern China
- Elsholtzia densaBenth. - India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Tibet, Xinjiang, China, Mongolia
- Elsholtzia eriocalyxC.Y.Wu & S.C.Huang - southern China
- Elsholtzia eriostachya(Benth.) Benth. - China, Tibet, Himalayas
- Elsholtzia feddeiH.Lév - China, Tibet
- Elsholtzia flavaBenth. - China, Himalayas
- Elsholtzia fruticosa(D.Don) Rehder - China, Himalayas, Tibet, Myanmar
- Elsholtzia glabraC.Y.Wu & S.C.Huang - China
- Elsholtzia griffithiiHook.f - Myanmar, Assam
- Elsholtzia hallasanensisY.N.Lee - Jeju-do Island in Korea
- Elsholtzia heterophyllaDiels - Yunnan, Myanmar
- Elsholtzia hunanensisHand.-Mazz. - southern China
- Elsholtzia kachinensisPrain - southern China, Myanmar, Thailand
- Elsholtzia litangensisC.X.Pu & W.Y.Chen - Sichuan
- Elsholtzia luteolaDiels - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia minimaNakai - Jeju-do Island in Korea
- Elsholtzia myosurusDunn - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia nipponicaOhwi - Japan
- Elsholtzia ochroleucaDunn - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia oldhamiiHemsl. - Taiwan
- Elsholtzia pendulifloraW.W.Sm - Yunnan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Elsholtzia pilosa(Benth.) Benth. - China, Himalayas, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Elsholtzia pubescensBenth. - Java, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Sulawesi
- Elsholtzia pygmaeaW.W.Sm. - Yunnan
- Elsholtzia rugulosaHemsl - southern China, Myanmar, Thailand
- Elsholtzia serotinaKom - northern China, Japan, Korea, Primorye
- Elsholtzia soulieiH.Lév. - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia splendensNakai ex F.Maek. - China, Korea
- Elsholtzia stachyodes(Link) Raizada & H.O.Saxena - Indian Subcontinent, China, Myanmar
- Elsholtzia stauntoniiBenth. - northern China
- Elsholtzia strobilifera(Benth.) Benth. - China, Himalayas, Myanmar
- Elsholtzia winitianaCraib - Yunnan, Guangxi, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
