Anacardiaceae

Anacardiaceae

Anacardiaceae are a family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes and in some cases producing urushiol, an irritant. Anacardiaceae include numerous genera with several of economic importance. Notable plants in this family include cashew , mango, poison ivy, sumac, smoke tree, and marula...

 

• Antrocaryon
  • Antrocaryon amazonicum
    Antrocaryon amazonicum
    Antrocaryon amazonicum is a tree native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil.-See also:*List of plants of Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil...
    
    (Ducke
    Adolpho Ducke
    Adolpho Ducke , also referred to as Adolfo Ducke and occasionally mis-spelled "Duque", was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer of Amazonia....
    
    ) B.L.Burtt
• Astronium
  Astronium
  Astronium is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae.-Selected species:*Astronium fraxinifolium - Goncalo alves*Astronium graveolens - Aroeira*Astronium lecointei...
  
  
  • Astronium fraxinifolium
    Astronium fraxinifolium
    Astronium fraxinifolium is a timber tree, which is native to Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius...
    
    Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
    
    
  • Astronium lecointei
    Astronium lecointei
    Astronium lecointei is a timber tree, which is native from Brazil.-External links: photos of wood...
    
    

Apocynaceae

Apocynaceae

The Apocynaceae or dogbane family is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, and lianas.Many species are tall trees found in tropical rainforests, and most are from the tropics and subtropics, but some grow in tropical dry, xeric environments. There are also perennial herbs...

 

• Aspidosperma
  Aspidosperma
  Aspidosperma is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae.Species include:*Aspidosperma curranii*Aspidosperma cylindrocarpon*Aspidosperma darienense*Aspidosperma dasycarpon*Aspidosperma discolor...
  
  
  • Aspidosperma oblongum A.DC.
• Hancornia
  Hancornia
  Hancornia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae.-External links:...
  
  
  • Hancornia speciosa
    Hancornia speciosa
    Hancornia speciosa is a fruit, which is also a timber tree of Hancornia genus in the Apocynaceae family. This plant is native from Brazil, typically in Amazon Rainforest, Caatinga, and Cerrado vegetation. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius...
    
    Gomes
    Gomes
    Gomes is a common Portuguese and Old Galician surname It derived from the given name Gomes which derived from the Visigothic word guma meaning "man".It may refer to:*Abel Gomes, Early surfboard builder, first hollow board Oahu 1910-1967...
    
    

Arecaceae

Arecaceae

Arecaceae or Palmae , are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates...

• Attalea
  Attalea
  Attalea may refer to:* Attalea , genus in the palm family* Antalya, Roman name of a city now in Turkey...
  
  
  • Attalea speciosa
    Attalea speciosa
    Attalea speciosa is a palm native to the Amazon Rainforest region in South America...
    
    
• Aphandra
  Aphandra
  Aphandra is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family native to the Amazon Rainforest vegetation in South America . Its only species is Aphandra natalia, sometimes called mastodon palm or fiber palm, and is used by indigenous peoples in the construction of brooms and other products...
  
  
  • Aphandra natalia (Balslev & A.J.Hend.) Barfod
• Astrocaryum
  Astrocaryum
  Astrocaryum is a genus of about 36 to 40 species of palms native to Central and South America and Trinidad.-Description:Astrocaryum is a genus of spiny palms with pinnately compound leaves–rows of leaflets emerge on either side of the axis of the leaf in a feather-like or fern-like pattern. Some...
  
  
  • Astrocaryum chambira
    Astrocaryum chambira
    Astrocaryum chambira is a palm native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. This plant which has edible endosperm and fruit. It has a commercial value because it has excellent fibers which may be used for bags, hammocks, ropes, string instruments, and many...
    
    Burret
    Burret
    Burret is a commune in the Ariège department of southwestern France.-Population:Inhabitants of Burret are called Burretois....
    
    
  • Astrocaryum faranae
    Astrocaryum faranae
    Astrocaryum faranae is a palm native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil. This plant has a commercial value because it have oil seeds which may be used to make production of cosmetics....
    
    F.Kahn. & E.Ferreira
  • Astrocaryum ferrugineum
    Astrocaryum ferrugineum
    Astrocaryum ferrugineum is a palm native to Amazon Rainforest in Brazil....
    
    F.Kahn. & B.Millán
  • Astrocaryum jauari
    Astrocaryum jauari
    Astrocaryum jauari is the most frequently encountered palm native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in the floodplains of the Rio Negro, in Brazil. Its fruits are edible. This plant has further commercial value because it may be used in the production of heart of palm.-External links:...
    
    Mart.
  • Astrocaryum murumuru
    Astrocaryum murumuru
    Astrocaryum murumuru is a palm native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil, which bears edible fruits. Murumuru butter, extracted from the seeds of the plant, may be used as a moisturizer.-External links:...
    
    Mart.
  • Astrocaryum vulgare
    Astrocaryum vulgare
    Astrocaryum vulgare is a palm native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation, typical of the Pará state in Brazil. This plant has edible fruit, which are also used for biodiesel production...
    
    Mart.
• Attalea
  Attalea (genus)
  Attalea is a large genus of palms native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America. This pinnately leaved, non-spiny genus includes both small palms lacking an aboveground stem and large trees. The genus has a complicated taxonomic history, and has often been split into four or five...
  
  
  • Attalea maripa (Aubl.) Mart.
• Bactris
  Bactris
  Bactris is a genus of about 240 species in the palm family, Arecaceae, native to Central and South America, and the Caribbean. They are trees growing to 4-20 m tall. The leaves are up to 5 m long, and pinnate with numerous leaflets...
  
  
  • Bactris gasipaes
    Bactris gasipaes
    Bactris gasipaes is a species of palm native to the tropical forests of South and Central America.There are numerous common names for this plant in several languages and many countries...
    
    Kunth
• Chamaedorea
  Chamaedorea
  Chamaedorea is a genus of 107 species of palms, native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas.. The name is derived from the Greek words χαμαί , meaning "on the ground," and δωρεά , meaning "gift." It refers to the easily reached fruits or the plants' low-growing nature.Chamaedorea...
  
  
  • Chamaedorea pinnatifrons
• Chelyocarpus
  Chelyocarpus
  Chelyocarpus is a genus of small to medium-sized fan palms which are native to northwestern South America. Some are upright trees, while others creep along the ground. Species are used for thatch, to weave hats, stuff pillows and as a source of salt....
  
  
  • Chelyocarpus ulei
    Chelyocarpus ulei
    Chelyocarpus ulei is a species of palm tree that is native to the western Amazon.-Description:Chelyocarpus ulei is a single-stemmed palm with fan-shaped leaves. The stem is tall and in diameter.-Taxonomy:...
    
    
• Desmoncus
  Desmoncus
  Desmoncus is a genus of spiny palms native to the Neotropics. The genus extends from Mexico in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south, with two species, D. orthacanthos and D...
  
  
  • Desmoncus giganteus
  • Desmoncus mitis
• Dictyocaryum
  Dictyocaryum
  Dictyocaryum is a monoecious genus of flowering plant in the palm family found in South America which is closely related to the Iriartea genus; they are commonly called araque or palma real. As many as eleven species have been described but this number is reduced to three in most current accounts...
  
  
  • Dictyocaryum ptarianum
• Euterpe
  Euterpe
  In Greek mythology, Euterpe + τέρπειν terpein ) was one of the Muses, the daughters of Mnemosyne, fathered by Zeus. Called the "Giver of delight", when later poets assigned roles to each of the Muses, she was the muse of music. In late Classical times she was named muse of lyric poetry and...
  
  
  • Euterpe oleracea Mart.
  • Euterpe precatoria
    Euterpe precatoria
    Euterpe precatoria is a tall, slender-stemmed, pinnate-leaved palm native to Central and South America and Trinidad and Tobago. E. precatoria is used commercially to produce fruits.-Biological description:...
    
    
  • Euterpe longevaginata
• Hyospathe
  Hyospathe
  Hyospathe is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It contains the following species:* Hyospathe macrorhachis* Hyospathe lehmannii...
  
  
  • Hyospathe elegans
• Iriartea
  Iriartea
  Iriartea is a genus in the palm family Arecaceae, native to Central and South America. The best-known species – and probably the only one – is Iriartea deltoidea, which is found from Nicaragua south into Bolivia. It is the most common tree in many forests in which it occurs...
  
  
  • Iriartea deltoidea
• Iriartella
  Iriartella
  Iriartella is a genus of two species of palms found in South America. The Nukak people use Iriartella stigera to fashion blowguns....
  
  
  • Iriartella stenocarpa
• Leopoldinia
  Leopoldinia
  Leopoldinia is a mostly monoecious genus of flowering plant in the palm family from South America where they are known as jará palm or pissava palm. The three species are commercially important, especially L. piassaba, which yields sustenance and construction material...
  
  
  • Leopoldinia piassaba
    Leopoldinia piassaba
    Leopoldinia piassaba is a palm native to black water rivers in Amazonian Brazil and Venezuela, from which is extracted piassava, a high caliber and water resistant fiber. Piassaba fiber is made into brooms, baskets, and other products...
    
    Wallace
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...
    
    
• Lepidocaryum
  Lepidocaryum
  Lepidocaryum is an unispecific genus of flowering plant in the palm family from South America where the lone species, Lepidocaryum tenue, is commonly called poktamui. Nine species have been described but palm taxonomists agree that just one variable plant represents them all...
  
  
  • Lepidocaryum tenue
• Oenocarpus
  Oenocarpus
  Oenocarpus is a genus of pinnate-leaved palms native to Trinidad, southern Central and tropical South America. With nine species and one natural hybrid, the genus is distributed from Costa Rica and Trinidad in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south.Common names in their native range are...
  
  
  • Oenocarpus bacaba
    Oenocarpus bacaba
    Oenocarpus bacaba is a palm native to the Amazon Rainforest, which have edible fruits. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....
    
    Mart.
  • Oenocarpus balickii
  • Oenocarpus bataua
    Oenocarpus bataua
    The patawa, sehe, hungurahua or mingucha is a palm tree native to the Amazonia, that produce eatable fruits rich in high quality oil.- Distribution and habitat:...
    
    
• Socratea
  Socratea
  Socratea is a genus of five species of palms found in tropical America. It can uproot itself and move away from where it germinated....
  
  
  • Socratea exorrhiza
    Socratea exorrhiza
    Socratea exorrhiza, the Walking Palm or Cashapona, is a palm native to rainforests in tropical Central and South America. It can grow to 25 meters in height, with a stem diameter of up to 17 cm. It has unusual stilt roots, the function of which has been debated. Many species of epiphyte have...
    
    Mart.
  • Socratea salazari
• Syagrus
  Syagrus
  Syagrus is a genus of 30 to 42 species of Arecaceae , native to South America, with one species endemic to the Lesser Antilles. The genus is closely related to the Cocos, or coconut genus, and many Syagrus species produce edible seeds similar to the coconut.-Description:Palms in this group have...
  
  
  • Syagrus smithii
    Syagrus smithii
    Syagrus smithii is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It is found in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.-References:* Henderson, A. 1998. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
    
    
• Wettinia
  Wettinia
  Wettinia is a palm genus, consisting of flowering plants in the Arecaceae family. The genus, established in 1837, contains some 20 species, but more seem to await discovery considering that 4 species - W. aequatorialis, W. lanata, W. minima and W. panamensis - were described as late as 1995. The...
  
  
  • Wettinia augusta

Bromeliaceae

Bromeliaceae

Bromeliaceae is a family of monocot flowering plants of around 3,170 species native mainly to the tropical Americas, with a few species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, Pitcairnia feliciana...

• Aechmea
  Aechmea
  Aechmea is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The name comes from the Greek “aichme” . Aechmea has 8 subgenera and 255 species distributed from Mexico through South America...
  
  
  • Aechmea chantinii
    Aechmea chantinii
    Aechmea chantinii is a bromeliad typical of Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil. Commonly known as Amazonian Zebra Plant, it is often used as an ornamental plant.The following subspecies are recognized :...
    
    (Carrière) Baker
    John Gilbert Baker
    John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
    
    
  • Aechmea rodriguesiana (= Aechmea meeana E.Pereira & Reitz)

Chrysobalanaceae

Chrysobalanaceae

Chrysobalanaceae is a family of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, consisting of 17 genera and about 460 species of leptocaul that grows in the Tropics or is subtropical and common in the Americas...

• Acioa
  Acioa
  Acioa is a genus of plant in family Chrysobalanaceae. It contains the following species:* Acioa cinerea* Acioa dichotoma* Acioa edulis* Acioa eketensis...
  
  
  • Acioa edulis
    Acioa edulis
    Acioa edulis is a fruit and timber tree, which is native of Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil...
    
    Prance
• Couepia
  Couepia
  Couepia is a genus of flowering plants in the family ChrysobalanaceaeCouepia is a genus of flowering plants in the family ChrysobalanaceaeCouepia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae...
  
  
  • Couepia longipendula
    Couepia longipendula
    The tropical rainforest tree Couepia longipendula is known by the common names egg nut, castanha de galinha, and pendula nut. It is found in the Amazon....
    
    
• Licania
  Licania
  Licania is a plant genus in the family Chrysobalanaceae. Mainly due to deforestation, several species of these shrubs and smallish trees have declined, some markedly so, and L. caldasiana from Colombia appears to have gone extinct in recent years....
  
  
  • Licania rigida
    Licania rigida
    Licania rigida, Oiticica, is a species of plant in the Chrysobalanaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil and Puerto Rico. The Oiticica grows deep in floods of rivers and streams, forming long, narrow avenues to the edge of ravines or floodplains staining the dark-green color of its large and dense...
    
    

Clusiaceae

Clusiaceae

The Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. is a family of plants formerly including about 37 genera and 1610 species of trees and shrubs, often with milky sap and fruits or capsules for seeds. It is primarily tropical...

• Platonia
  Platonia
  Platonia insignis, the sole species of the genus Platonia, is a tree of the family Clusiaceae native to South America in the humid forests of Brazil, Paraguay, parts of Colombia and northeast to Guyana; specially in Amazon Rainforest...
  
  
  • Platonia insignis Mart. (= Aristoclesia esculenta Stuntz) - Bakury

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae, the Spurge family are a large family of flowering plants with 300 genera and around 7,500 species. Most are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are also shrubs or trees. Some are succulent and resemble cacti....

• Alchornea
  Alchornea
  Alchornea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 70 tropical species.-Synonyms:*Bleekeria Miq.*Bossera Leandri*Caelebogyne J.Sm.*Cladodes Lour.*Hermesia Humb. & Bonpl....
  
  
  • Alchornea castaneifolia
    Alchornea castaneifolia
    Alchornea castaneifolia Alchornea castaneifolia Alchornea castaneifolia (Iporuru, Iporoni, Iporuro, Ipururo, Ipurosa, Macochihua, Niando, Pajaro; syn. Hermesia castaneifolia Humb. & Bonpl...
    
    (Bonpl. ex Willd.) A.Juss. - Iporuru
  • Alchornea triplinervia
    Alchornea triplinervia
    Alchornea triplinervia is a commercial timber tree native to Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest, and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is found in the following states of Brazil: Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro,...
    
    (Spreng.) Müll.Arg.
• Croton
  • Croton lanjouwensis
• Hevea
  Hevea
  Hevea is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It is also one of many names used commercially for the wood of the most economically important species H. brasiliensis.-Selected species:* Hevea benthamiana Müll.Arg....
  
  
  • Hevea brasiliensis
    Para rubber tree
    Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree, often simply called rubber tree, is a tree belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae, and the most economically important member of the genus Hevea...
    
    Müll.Arg.
    Johannes Müller Argoviensis
    Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
    
     - Pará rubber tree
    Para rubber tree
    Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree, often simply called rubber tree, is a tree belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae, and the most economically important member of the genus Hevea...
    
    
• Hura
  Hura
  -See also:*List of Arab localities in Israel*Negev Bedouins...
  
  
  • Hura crepitans L. (= Hura brasiliensis Wild.)
• Manihot
  Manihot
  Manihot is a plant genus of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It contains around 98 species that are native to the Americas, from Arizona in the United States south to Argentina...
  
  
  • Manihot esculenta - Manioc
• Micrandropsis
  Micrandropsis
  Micrandropsis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae....
  
  
  • Micrandropsis scleroxylon

Lecythidaceae

Lecythidaceae

The Lecythidaceae comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species of woody plants native to tropical South America and Madagascar.According to the most recent molecular analysis of Lecythidaceae The Lecythidaceae comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species of woody plants...

• Allantoma
  • Allantoma lineata
    Allantoma lineata
    Allantoma lineata is a timber tree native from Brazil, typical of Amazon Rainforest vegetation.-External links:* wood photo...
    
    Miers
    Miers
    Miers may refer to:People* Anthony Miers , WWII Royal Navy officer* Earl Schenck Miers , American historian* Edward J. Miers , English zoologist* Harriet Miers , American lawyer...
    
    
• Couroupita
  Couroupita
  Couroupita is a genus of flowering plants of Lecythidaceae family. It consists of four species native to tropical South America.Selected Species* Couroupita guianensis - Cannon-ball tree-External links:* on The Lecythidaceae Pages...
  
  
  • Couroupita guianensis Aubl.

Malvaceae

Malvaceae

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...

• Apeiba
  Apeiba
  Apeiba is a genus of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family.Species include:*Apeiba albiflora* Apeiba intermedia*Apeiba tibourbou...
  
  
  • Apeiba albiflora
    Apeiba albiflora
    Apeiba albiflora is a tree which is often used as medicinal plant native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Surinam.-External links:*...
    
    Ducke
• Quararibea
  Quararibea
  Quararibea is a genus of aromatic plants in the family Malvaceae. Quararibea "ishpingo" is added to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca. Quararibea turbinata goes by the common name "Swizzlestick tree."...
  
  
  • Quararibea cordata
    Quararibea cordata
    Quararibea cordata is a large, semi-deciduous, fruit tree , native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It bears orange-yellow fruit which are soft, juicy and sweet and contain 2-5 seeds...
    
    Vischer

Olacaceae

Olacaceae

Olacaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Santalales. They are woody plants, native throughout the tropical regions of the world....

• Minquartia
  Minquartia
  Minquartia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Olacaceae family containing the single species Minquartia guianensis...
  
  
  • Minquartia guianensis Aublet
    Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
    Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
    
    

See also

• List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil
• List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil
• List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil
• List of plants of Pantanal vegetation of Brazil
• Official list of endangered flora of Brazil
  Official list of endangered flora of Brazil
  This is the official list of endangered flora of Brazil. It is published in Portaria 37-N de 3 de abril de 1992 by IBAMA.- Categories :...