List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil
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This is a list of plants found in the wild in Cerrado
Cerrado
The Cerrado, is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, particularly in the states of Gioas and Minas Gerais...

 vegetation
Vegetation
Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of a region; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. It is broader...

 of Brazil. Additions are currently being made to this list.

See also:

Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae
The family Acanthaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species....

  • Anisacanthus
    Anisacanthus
    Anisacanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ανισος , meaning "unequal," and ακανθος , meaning "thorn." Members of the genus are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas...

    trilobus
    Anisacanthus trilobus
    Anisacanthus trilobus is a plant native of Caatinga vegetation and Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Dicliptera
    Dicliptera
    Dicliptera is a genus of flowering plants in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae. Dactylostegium is sometimes included herein.-Selected species:* Dicliptera aripoensis Leonard* Dicliptera armata...

    mucronifolia
    Dicliptera mucronifolia
    Dicliptera mucronifolia is a plant that is native of Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Dicliptera sericea
    Dicliptera sericea
    Dicliptera aripoensisDicliptera sericea is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Geissomeria
    Geissomeria
    Geissomeria is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae.-Selected species:* Geissomeria ciliata Rizzini* Geissomeria dawsonii Leonard* Geissomeria longiflora Salzm. ex Nees...

    ciliata
    Geissomeria ciliata
    Geissomeria ciliata is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant grows in Uberlândia city, state of Minas Gerais.-External links:...

    Rizzini
  • Geissomeria dawsonii
    Geissomeria dawsonii
    Geissomeria dawsonii is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:...

    Leonard
    Emery Clarence Leonard
    Emery Clarence Leonard was an American botanist known for his work on the Acanthaceae plant family and on the flora of Haiti.-References:...

  • Geissomeria longiflora
    Geissomeria longiflora
    Geissomeria longiflora is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius...

    Salzm. ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

      (= Geissomeria macrophylla Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

    )
  • Geissomeria schottiana
    Geissomeria schottiana
    Geissomeria schottiana is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Hygrophila costata
    Hygrophila costata
    Glush weed , or yerba de hicotea Glush weed (aka gulf swampweed), or yerba de hicotea Glush weed (aka gulf swampweed), or yerba de hicotea (syn. Hygrophila atricheta Bridar., Hygrophila brasiliensis Spreng., Hygrophila conferta Nees, Hygrophila guianensis Nees, Hygrophila lacustris Morong &...

    Sinning
  • Jacobinia
    Justicia
    Justicia is a genus of flowering plants in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae. The roughly 420 species it contains are native to tropical to warm temperate regions of the Americas, with two species occurring north into cooler temperate regions...

    macedoana
    Jacobinia macedoana
    Jacobinia macedoana is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Rizzini (= Sericographis macedoana Rizzini)
  • Jacobinia macedoana
    Jacobinia macedoana
    Jacobinia macedoana is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Rizzini var. elegans Rizzini
  • Justicia
    Justicia
    Justicia is a genus of flowering plants in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae. The roughly 420 species it contains are native to tropical to warm temperate regions of the Americas, with two species occurring north into cooler temperate regions...

    angustifolia
    Justicia angustifolia
    Justicia angustifolia is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Justicia burchellii
    Justicia burchellii
    Justicia burchellii is an ornamental plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Hiern
    William Philip Hiern
    William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...

  • Justicia chrysotrichoma
    Justicia chrysotrichoma
    Justicia chrysotrichoma is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. It is one of about 420 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     ex (Ness
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

    )
  • Justicia cynea
    Justicia cynea
    Justicia cynea is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Leonard
    Emery Clarence Leonard
    Emery Clarence Leonard was an American botanist known for his work on the Acanthaceae plant family and on the flora of Haiti.-References:...

  • Justicia genistiformis
    Justicia genistiformis
    Justicia genistiformis is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Justicia irwinii
    Justicia irwinii
    Justicia irwinii is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Wassh.
  • Justicia lanstyakii
    Justicia lanstyakii
    Justicia lanstyakii is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Rizzini
  • Justicia nodicaulis
    Justicia nodicaulis
    Justicia nodicaulis is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Justicia pycnophylla
    Justicia pycnophylla
    Justicia pycnophylla is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:...

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Justicia riparia
    Justicia riparia
    Justicia riparia is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    C.Kameyama (= Beloperone mollis Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

    )
  • Justicia sarithroides
    Justicia sarithroides
    Justicia sarithroides is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Justicia serrana
    Justicia serrana
    Justicia serrana is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    C.Kameyama
  • Justicia tocantina
    Justicia tocantina
    Justicia tocantina is a plant native to Argentine, and Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

     var. longispicus Rizzini (= Chaetothylax tocantinus, Justicia tocantinus)
  • Justicia umbrosa
    Justicia umbrosa
    Justicia umbrosa is an ornamental shrub native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant may be propagated by herbaceous stem cutting, and it can usually get to 1,50 - 2,50 m tall...

    Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Justicia warmingii
    Justicia warmingii
    Justicia warmingii is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Hiern
    William Philip Hiern
    William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...

  • Lepidagathis
    Lepidagathis
    Lepidagathis is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae.-Selected species:* Lepidagathis calycina* Lepidagathis cuspidata* Lepidagathis fasciculata* Lepidagathis incurva* Lepidagathis lutea...

    alopecuroides R.Br.
    Robert Brown (botanist)
    Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...

     ex Griseb.
    August Grisebach
    August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...

  • Lophostachys
    Lophostachys
    Lophostachys is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae.-Selected species:*Lophostachys cyanea*Lophostachys falcata*Lophostachys floribunda*Lophostachys laxiflora*Lophostachys montana*Lophostachys sessiliflora...

    cyanea
    Lophostachys cyanea
    Lophostachys cyanea is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:...

    Leonard
    Emery Clarence Leonard
    Emery Clarence Leonard was an American botanist known for his work on the Acanthaceae plant family and on the flora of Haiti.-References:...

  • Lophostachys falcata
    Lophostachys falcata
    Lophostachys falcata is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Lophostachys floribunda
    Lophostachys floribunda
    Lophostachys floribunda is a plant native of Caatinga and Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-See also:...

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     (= Lepidagathis floribunda (Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

    ) C.Kameyama)
  • Lophostachys laxiflora
    Lophostachys laxiflora
    Lophostachys laxiflora is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Lophostachys montana
    Lophostachys montana
    Lophostachys montana is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Lophostachys sessiliflora
    Lophostachys sessiliflora
    Lophostachys sessiliflora is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Lophostachys villosa
    Lophostachys villosa
    Lophostachys villosa is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-References:Lophostachys villosa is cited in the following text:...

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Mendoncia puberula
    Mendoncia puberula
    Mendoncia puberula is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae .It is a climber with opposite, entire ovate leaves somewhat hairy abaxially, which renders the species its epithet....

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Mendoncia velloziana
    Mendoncia velloziana
    Mendoncia velloziana is a plant native to Atlantic Coast restingas vegetation which is an ecosystem of Atlantic Forest biome. In addition, this plant grows either in Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Mendoncia
    Mendoncia
    Mendoncia is a genus of climbing plants in the family Acanthaceae.Species include:* Mendocia lindavii* Mendoncia mollis* Mendoncia puberula* Mendoncia velloziana...

    mollis
    Mendoncia mollis
    Mendoncia mollis is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae .It is a climber with opposite, entire ovate leaves somewhat hairy abaxially, which renders the species its epithet...

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Poikilacanthus
    Poikilacanthus
    Poikilacanthus is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. Species include:* Poikilacanthus macranthus* Poikilacanthus oncodes...

    oncodes
    Poikilacanthus oncodes
    Poikilacanthus oncodes is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:*...

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia
    Ruellia
    Ruellia is a genus of flowering plants. Commonly known as ruellias or wild petunias, they are not closely related to petunias . Both genera belong to the same euasterid clade, however...

    acutangula
    Ruellia acutangula
    Ruellia acutangula is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

     ex Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Ruellia amoena
    Ruellia amoena
    Red Christmas Pride or Tropical Wild Petunia is an ornamental plant native of Argentina, Cerrado vegetation of Brazil, and Mexico.-External links:***...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia angustifolia
    Ruellia angustifolia
    Britton's wild petunia or Mexican Bluebell , Cryphiacanthus angustifolius Nees, Ruellia brittoniana Leonard, Ruellia ignorantiae Herter, Ruellia microphylla Lindau, Ruellia spectabilis Britton, Ruellia tweediana Griseb.) is an ornamental plant native of Argentina, Cerrado and Pantanal...

    Sessé
    Martín Sessé y Lacasta
    Martín Sessé y Lacasta was a Spanish botanist, who relocated to New Spain during the 18th century to study and classify the flora of the territory.-Background:...

     et Moc.
    José Mariano Mociño
    José Mariano Mociño Suárez Lozano , or simply José Mariano Mociño, was a naturalist from New Spain.After having studied philosophy and medicine, he conducted early research on the ecology , geology, and anthropology of his country and other parts of North America.- Biography :He was born in...

  • Ruellia angustior
    Ruellia angustior
    Ruellia angustior is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    (Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

    ) Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia asperula
    Ruellia asperula
    Ruellia asperula is a medicinal plant native to Brazil and classified as Caatinga vegetation and Cerrado vegetation....

    Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

     et Hook.f.
    Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...

  • Ruellia brevicaulis
    Ruellia brevicaulis
    Ruellia capitata is a plant native to Cerrado vegetation of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.-External links:**...

    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....

  • Ruellia capitata
    Ruellia capitata
    Ruellia capitata is a plant native to Cerrado vegetation of Brazil, China, and Nepal...

    D.Don
    David Don
    David Don was a Scottish botanist,David Don was born on December 21, 1799, at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland. He was the younger brother of George Don, also a botanist, their father being George Don of Forfar and his wife Caroline Clementina Stuart...

  • Ruellia (Scorodoxylum) costata (Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

    ) Hiern
    William Philip Hiern
    William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...

     var. latifolium Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia (Scorodoxylum) costata (Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

    ) Hiern
    William Philip Hiern
    William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...

     var. salicifolium Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia densa
    Ruellia densa
    Ruellia densa is a plant native to the Cerrado region of Brazil....

    Hiern
    William Philip Hiern
    William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...

  • Ruellia diffusa
    Ruellia diffusa
    Ruellia diffusa is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:* *...

    Royle
    John Forbes Royle
    John Forbes Royle , British botanist and teacher of materia medica, was born in Kanpur in 1799. Entering the service of the East India Company as assistant surgeon, he devoted himself to studying botany and geology, and made large collections among the Himalaya Mountains...

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia dissitifolia
    Ruellia dissitifolia
    Ruellia dissitifolia is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is found in The New York Botanical Garden.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Hiern.
    William Philip Hiern
    William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...

  • Ruellia eriocalyx
    Ruellia eriocalyx
    Ruellia eriocalyx is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Glaz.
    Auguste François Marie Glaziou
    Auguste François Marie Glaziou was a French landscape designer and botanist who was born in Lannion, Brittany.As a student in Paris he earned a degree in civil engineering and took classes at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...

  • Ruellia eurycodon
    Ruellia eurycodon
    Ruellia eurycodon is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia flava
    Ruellia flava
    Ruellia flava is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Roxb.
    William Roxburgh
    William Roxburgh was a Scottish surgeon and botanist. He has been called the Father of Indian Botany.-Early life:Roxburgh was born at Underwood in the parish of Craigie, Ayrshire. He studied medicine in Edinburgh...

  • Ruellia formosa
    Ruellia formosa
    Ruellia formosa is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil, which is usually used like an ornamental plant, and it is pollinated by hummingbirds.-References:...

    Andrews
    Henry Charles Andrews
    Henry Charles Andrews , was an English botanist, botanical artist and engraver.He lived in Knightsbridge and was married to the daughter of John Kennedy of Hammersmith, a nurseryman who assisted Andrews in the descriptions of the plants he illustrated.He was an accomplished and unusual botanical...

  • Ruellia geminiflora
    Ruellia geminiflora
    Ruellia geminiflora, known locally as ipecacuanha-da-flor-roxa, is a species native to Argentina; Brazil, typically Caatinga and Cerrado vegetation; Guianas, and Venezuela. The roots of this plant contains possibly toxic substances....

    Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

  • Ruellia glanduloso-punctata
    Ruellia glanduloso-punctata
    Ruellia glanduloso-punctata is an plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia hapalotricha
    Ruellia hapalotricha
    Ruellia hapalotricha Ruellia hapalotricha Ruellia hapalotricha (syn. Eurychanes hapalotricha is a species native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia helianthemum
    Ruellia helianthemum
    Ruellia helianthemum is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    (Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

    ) Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia humilis
    Ruellia humilis
    Ruellia humilis Ruellia humilis Ruellia humilis (Fringeleaf wild petunia, Plains petunia, Fringeleaf Ruellia, Hairy Ruellia, Low Ruellia, Zigzag Ruel; (syn. Ruellia ciliosa Pursh var. longiflora Gray, Ruellia humilis Nutt. var. calvescens Fern., Ruellia humilis Nutt. var. depauperata Tharp &...

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia hypericoides
    Ruellia hypericoides
    Ruellia hypericoides is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-See also:...

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia incomta
    Ruellia incomta
    Ruellia incomta is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia macrantha
    Ruellia macrantha
    Ruellia macrantha is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil, which is usually used like an ornamental plant. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:* Photo...

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia menthoides
    Ruellia menthoides
    Ruellia menthoides is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:*...

    Hiern
    William Philip Hiern
    William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...

  • Ruellia neesiana
    Ruellia neesiana
    Ruellia neesiana is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith....

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia (Dipteracanthus) nitens
    Ruellia nitens
    Ruellia nitens is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    (Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

    ) Wassh.
  • Ruellia (Dipteracanthus) pohlii
    Ruellia pohlii
    Ruellia pohlii is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:*...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia puri
    Ruellia puri
    Ruellia puri is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:*...

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia rasa
    Ruellia rasa
    Ruellia rasa is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:*...

    Hiern
    William Philip Hiern
    William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...

  • Ruellia rufipila
    Ruellia rufipila
    Ruellia rufipila is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:*...

    Rizzini
  • Ruellia stenandrium
    Ruellia stenandrium
    Ruellia stenandrium is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia tomentosa
    Ruellia tomentosa
    Ruellia tomentosa is a plant native to Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Wall.
    Nathaniel Wallich
    Nathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company...

  • Ruellia trachyphylla
    Ruellia trachyphylla
    Ruellia trachyphylla is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia trivialis
    Ruellia trivialis
    Ruellia trivialis is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil....

    Blanch. ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia verbaciformis
    Ruellia verbaciformis
    Ruellia verbaciformis is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ruellia villosa
    Ruellia villosa
    Ruellia villosa is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:*...

    Lindau
    Gustav Lindau
    Gustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...

  • Ruellia vindex
    Ruellia vindex
    Ruellia vindex is an plant native of Cerradovegetation of Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Staurogyne
    Staurogyne
    Staurogyne is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae....

    elegans
    Staurogyne elegans
    Staurogyne elegans is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Staurogyne hirsuta
    Staurogyne hirsuta
    Staurogyne hirsuta is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Staurogyne minarum
    Staurogyne minarum
    Staurogyne minarum syn. Ebermaiera minarum Nees) is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.-External links:*...

    Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Stenandrium hirsutum
    Stenandrium hirsutum
    Stenandrium hirsutum is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Stenandrium pohlii
    Stenandrium pohlii
    Stenandrium pohlii aka Caiapiá or Carapiá in Portuguese is a plant native to Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.- See also :...

    Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Thunbergia
    Thunbergia
    Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. Its members are known by various names, including thunbergias; clockvine on its own usually refers to Thunbergia grandiflora, while Thunbergia alata is often...

    alata
    Thunbergia alata
    Thunbergia alata, commonly called Black-eyed Susan vine, is a herbaceous perennial climbing plant species in the Acanthaceae family. It is native to Eastern Africa, and has been naturalized in other parts of the world...

    Bojer
    Wenceslas Bojer
    Wenceslas Bojer was a notable naturalist and botanist.He was born to Simon Bojer and Barbara Staub....

     ex Sims
  • Thunbergia laurifolia
    Thunbergia laurifolia
    Thunbergia laurifolia, Laurel clock vine or Blue trumpet vine, is native to India and the Indomalaya ecozone, the species occurs from Indochina to Malaysia...

    Lindl.
    John Lindley
    John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...


Alismataceae
Alismataceae
The water-plantains are a family of flowering plants, comprising 11 genera and between 85-95 species. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the greatest number of species in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere...

  • Echinodorus
    Echinodorus
    Echinodorus is a genus of plants in the family Alismataceae and distributed in the Western Hemisphere. Its scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek echius – rough husk, and doros – leathern bottle, alluding to ovaries, which in some species are armed with persistent styles,...

    bolivianus (Rusby) Holm-Niels.
  • Echinodorus grandiflorus (Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

     et Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

    ) Micheli ssp. grandiflorus (=Echinodorus pubescens Seub.
    Moritz August Seubert
    Moritz August Seubert was a German botanist.- Life :Seubert was the son of a medical officer of health. He first attended the Lyzeum in Karlsruhe and already at that time had contact with the botanist, Alexander Braun, who interested him in this subject...

     ex Warm.)
  • Echinodorus grandiflorus (Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

     & Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

    ) Micheli ssp. aureus (Fasset.) Haynes et Holm-Niels.
  • Echinodorus grisebachii Small
    John Kunkel Small
    John Kunkel Small was an American botanist.He was the first Curator of Museums at The New York Botanical Garden, a post in which he served from 1898 until 1906. From 1906 to 1934 he was Head Curator and then from 1934 until his death he was Chief Research Associate and Curator...

  • Echinodorus guyanensis Griseb.
    August Grisebach
    August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...

     (=Sagittaria guyanensis Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

    )
  • Echinodorus longipetalus Micheli
  • Echinodorus macrophyllus
    Echinodorus macrophyllus
    Rataj places it in his Section Macrophylli - Subgenus Echinodorus-Description:Petioles 2 - 3 x longer than the blade, membraneously alate on the base, thin to densely pilose under the blade. Pubescence simple or stellate and absent on young or submerged plants...

    (Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

    .) Micheli ssp. scaber (Rataj.) Hayne et Holm-Niels.
  • Echinodorus martii Micheli
  • Echinodorus paniculatus Micheli
  • Echinodorus alatus (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Griseb.
    August Grisebach
    August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...

     ssp. alatus
  • Echinodorus alatus (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Griseb.
    August Grisebach
    August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...

     ssp. andrieuxii (Hook.
    William Jackson Hooker
    Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...

     & Arn.
    George Arnott Walker-Arnott
    George Arnott Walker-Arnott was a Scottish botanist.He studied law in Edinburgh though later became a botanist, holding the position of Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in...

    ) Hayne & Holm-Niels.
  • Echinodorus tenellus
    Echinodorus tenellus
    -Synonyms:Alisma tenellus Martius; Alisma tenellum; Echinodorus naine; Echinodorus parvulus Engelm.; Echinodorus tenellus var. ecostatus; Echinodorus tenellus Buch. var. latifolius Fassett; Echinodorus tenellus Buch. var...

    Buchen. (=Alisma tenellum Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    )
  • Echinodorus tunicatus
    Echinodorus tunicatus
    In Rataj's taxonomy E. tunicatus is in Section Longipetali, Subgenus EchinodorusSometimes seen as Queen of Hearts-Synonyms:E. longipetalus sensu Woodson et. Schery Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 30:101, 1943 -Description:...

    Small
    John Kunkel Small
    John Kunkel Small was an American botanist.He was the first Curator of Museums at The New York Botanical Garden, a post in which he served from 1898 until 1906. From 1906 to 1934 he was Head Curator and then from 1934 until his death he was Chief Research Associate and Curator...

  • Ottelia brasiliensis Walp.
    Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers
    Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers was a German botanist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Walp. when citing a botanical name.-Works:*Repertorium botanices systematicæ...

  • Sagittaria
    Sagittaria
    Sagittaria is a genus of about 30 species of aquatic plants whose members go by a variety of common names, including arrowhead, duck potato, iz-ze-kn, katniss, kuwai , swan potato, tule potato, and wapato...

    guayanensis Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

    . ssp. guayanensis
  • Sagittaria lagoensis Seub.
    Moritz August Seubert
    Moritz August Seubert was a German botanist.- Life :Seubert was the son of a medical officer of health. He first attended the Lyzeum in Karlsruhe and already at that time had contact with the botanist, Alexander Braun, who interested him in this subject...

     et Warm.
  • Sagittaria planitiana G.Agostini
  • Sagittaria rhombifolia Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...


Alstroemeriaceae (Liliaceae)
Alstroemeriaceae
The Alstroemeriaceae is a family of flowering plants, with 200 species in three or four genera, native to the Americas, from Central America to southern South America....

  • Alstroemeria
    Alstroemeria
    Alstroemeria , commonly called the Peruvian Lily or Lily of the Incas, is a South American genus of about 120 species of flowering plants. Almost all of the species are restricted to one of two distinct centers of diversity, one in central Chile, the other in eastern Brazil...

    brasiliensis Spreng.
  • Alstroemeria burchelii 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....

  • Alstroemeria caryophyllacea Jacq.
    Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
    Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....

  • Alstroemeria cunea Vell.
  • Alstroemeria foliosa Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Alstroemeria gardneri 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....

  • Alstroemeria plantaginea Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Alstroemeria psittacina
    Alstroemeria psittacina
    Alstroemeria psittacina Alstroemeria psittacina Alstroemeria psittacina (Parrot flower, Parrot lily, Peruvian lily, Lily of the Incas, Princess lily; syn. Alstroemeria cf. psittacina Lehm., Alstroemeria pulchella L.f...

    Lehm.
    Johann Georg Christian Lehmann
    Johann Georg Christian Lehmann was a German botanist.Born at Haselau, near Uetersen, Holstein, Lehmann studied medicine in Copenhagen and Göttingen, obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1813 and a doctorate in philosophy from he University of Jena in 1814...

  • Alstroemeria pulchella L.f.
    Carolus Linnaeus the Younger
    Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger was a Swedish naturalist...

  • Alstroemeria scarlatina Ravenna
  • Alstroemeria stenocephala Schenk
  • Alstroemeria viridiflora Warm.
  • Alstroemeria zamioides 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....


Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae
The flowering plant family Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, contains about 176 genera and 2,400 species.- Description :Most of these species are herbs or subshrubs; very few are trees or climbers. Some species are succulent....

  • Alternanthera
    Alternanthera
    Alternanthera is a genus of approximately 80 herbaceous plant species in Amaranthaceae, the amaranth family. It is a widespread genus with a cosmopolitan distribution....

    brasiliana (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    ) Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Alternanthera brasiliana (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    ) O.Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

     var. moquinii (Webb. ex Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

    ) Uline
    Uline
    Uline is a distributor of shipping, industrial, and packing materials to businesses throughout North America. Uline distributes more than 20,000 products, featuring more than 1,000 corrugated box sizes...

  • Alternanthera brasiliana (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    ) O.Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

     var. villosa (Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

    ) O.Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Alternanthera martii (Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

    ) R.E.Fries
  • Alternanthera tenella Collad.
  • Amaranthus flavus L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Amaranthus paniculatus Walf. (=Amaranthus caudatus L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    )
  • Chamissoa
    Chamissoa
    Chamissoa is a genus of plants in the Amaranthaceae family. This genus is sometimes included in the Chenopodiaceae family. Species include:*Chamissoa altissima Kunth - False chaff flower...

    acuminata Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Chamissoa altissima
    Chamissoa altissima
    Chamissoa altissima is a plant native to North and South America, and it specially grows up in the Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. In addition, this plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

  • Chamissoa maximiliani Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

  • Froelichiella
    Froelichiella
    Froelichiella is a genus of plants in the Amaranthaceae family. This genus is sometimes included in the Froelichia Moench, and it can be also placed in the Chenopodiaceae family. Some species of this genus are natives to Brazil....

    grisea
    Froelichiella grisea
    Froelichiella grisea is a plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant has been assessed as a vulnerable species....

    (Lopr.) R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Gomphrena
    Gomphrena
    Gomphrena the Globe amaranths, is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae.Species include:*Gomphrena globosa - Globe amaranth*Gomphrena haageana - Strawberry globe amaranth*Gomphrena perennis - Glyphosate resistant...

    agrestis
    Gomphrena agrestis
    Gomphrena agrestis is a plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Gomphrena aphylla Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     ex Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

     (=Gomphrena equisetiformis R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

    )
  • Gomphrena celosioides Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Gomphrena claussenii Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

  • Gomphrena decipiens Seub.
    Moritz August Seubert
    Moritz August Seubert was a German botanist.- Life :Seubert was the son of a medical officer of health. He first attended the Lyzeum in Karlsruhe and already at that time had contact with the botanist, Alexander Braun, who interested him in this subject...

  • Gomphrena desertorum Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Gomphrena glabrata Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

     (=Pfaffia glabrata Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    )
  • Gomphrena globosa
    Gomphrena globosa
    Gomphrena globosa, commonly known as Globe Amaranth or Bachelor Button, is an annual plant that grows up to 24 inches in height...

    L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Gomphrena graminea Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

  • Gomphrena hermogenesii J.C. de Siqueira
  • Gomphrena lanigera Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     ex Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

     (=Gomphrena scapigera Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     var. lanigera (Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     ex Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

    ) Stuchlik)
  • Gomphrena macrorhisa Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Gomphrena matogrossensis Suesseng.
  • Gomphrena moquini Seub.
    Moritz August Seubert
    Moritz August Seubert was a German botanist.- Life :Seubert was the son of a medical officer of health. He first attended the Lyzeum in Karlsruhe and already at that time had contact with the botanist, Alexander Braun, who interested him in this subject...

  • Gomphrena officinalis Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     (=G. arborescens L.f.
    Carolus Linnaeus the Younger
    Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger was a Swedish naturalist...

    , or G. macrocephala A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

    )
  • Gomphrena pohlii
    Gomphrena pohlii
    Gomphrena pohlii is a plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil, specially in São Paulo. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

  • Gomphrena prostrata
    Gomphrena prostrata
    Gomphrena prostrata is a plant native to Caatinga and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil, specially in Bahia and São Paulo. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-See also:...

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Gomphrena rudis Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

  • Gomphrena scapigera Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Gomphrena vaga Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Gomphrena velutina Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

  • Gomphrena virgata Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Pfaffia
    Pfaffia
    Pfaffia is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. This genus is sometimes placed in Chenopodiaceae family.-Selected species:*Pfaffia cinera*Pfaffia denutata*Pfaffia glomerata...

    cinera (Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

    ) O.Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Pfaffia denutata (Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

    ) O.Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Pfaffia glomerata
    Pfaffia glomerata
    Pfaffia glomerata is an medicinal plant native to Argentina, Bolivia, Cerrado, and Pantanal vegetation in Brazil.-See also:* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil* List of plants of Pantanal vegetation of Brazil...

    (Spreng.) Pedersen
  • Pfaffia gnaphaloides (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

     f.) Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Pfaffia helichrysoides (Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

    ) O.Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Pfaffia jubata
    Pfaffia jubata
    Pfaffia jubata is a plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     (=Gomphrena jubata Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

    )
  • Pfaffia paniculata (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Pfaffia sericantha (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) T.M.Pedersen
  • Pfaffia sericea (Spreng.) Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Pfaffia townsendii Pedersen
  • Pfaffia tuberosa (Spreng.) Hick.
  • Pfaffia velutina Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Xerosiphon
    Xerosiphon
    Xerosiphon is a genus of plants in the Amaranthaceae family. This genus is sometimes included in the Chenopodiaceae family. Species include:*Xerosiphon aphyllus...

    aphyllus (Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     ex Moq.
    Alfred Moquin-Tandon
    Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...

    ) Pedersen

Amaryllidaceae (Liliaceae)
Amaryllidaceae
Amaryllidoideae is the subfamily of flowering plants that takes its name from the genus Amaryllis. It is part of the family Amaryllidaceae, in order Asparagales...

  • Amaryllis
    Amaryllis
    Amaryllis is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species. The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape...

    heringerii Ravenna
  • Crinum
    Crinum
    Crinum is a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants that have large showy flowers on leafless stems, and develop from bulbs. They are found along the sides of streams and lakes in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide, including South Africa....

    virgineum Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Griffinia
    Griffinia
    Griffinia is a genus of monocotyledonous plants in the Amaryllidaceae family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. It includes 21 species which are endemic to South America, Brazil. The most closely related genus to it is the monotypic Worsleya. The members of the genus Griffinia are tropical, bulbous plants...

    liboriana Lem.
    Charles Antoine Lemaire
    Charles Antoine Lemaire , was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae....

  • Habranthus
    Habranthus
    Habranthus is a genus of tender herbaceous flowering bulbs in the Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. The genus was first identified by pioneering bulb enthusiast William Herbert in 1824.-Description:...

    robustus Herb.
  • Hippeastrum
    Hippeastrum
    Hippeastrum is a genus of about 90 species and 600+ hybrids and cultivars of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas from Argentina north to Mexico and the Caribbean. Some species are grown for their large...

    aulicum (Ker Gawl.
    John Bellenden Ker Gawler
    John Bellenden Ker, originally John Gawler was an English botanist born about 1764 in Ramridge, Andover, Hampshire and died in June 1842 in the same town. On 5 November 1804 he changed his name to Ker Bellenden, but continued to sign his name as Bellenden Ker until his death...

    ) Herb.
  • Hippeastrum calyptratum Herb. (=Amaryllis unguiculata Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    )
  • Hippeastrum gayanum Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Hippeastrum goianum Ravenna (=Amaryllis goiana Ravenna)
  • Hippeastrum psittacinum Herb. (=Amaryllis psittacina Ker Gawl.
    John Bellenden Ker Gawler
    John Bellenden Ker, originally John Gawler was an English botanist born about 1764 in Ramridge, Andover, Hampshire and died in June 1842 in the same town. On 5 November 1804 he changed his name to Ker Bellenden, but continued to sign his name as Bellenden Ker until his death...

    )
  • Hippeastrum puniceum
    Hippeastrum puniceum
    Hippeastrum puniceum is a bulbous perennial native to tropical regions of South America although it has become naturalized elsewhere. Common names include Barbados lily, Easter lily, and amaryllis lily, although it is neither a lily nor a species of Amaryllis.Plants have 4–6 leaves, each of which...

    (Lam.
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...

    ) Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Hippeastrum solandriferum Herb.
  • Zephyranthes
    Zephyranthes
    Zephyranthes is a genus of 71 species in the Amaryllis family . There are numerous hybrids and cultivars. Common names for species in this genus include fairy lily, rainflower, zephyr lily, magic lily, Atamasco lily, and rain lily.The name is derived from Ζέφυρος , the Greek god of the west...

    franciscana Herb. ex 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....


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...

  • Anacardium
    Anacardium
    Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.-Selected species:*Anacardium corymbosum Barb.Rodr.*Anacardium excelsum L. - Wild Cashew*Anacardium giganteum Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae,...

    corymbosum B. Rod.
  • Anacardium humile A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Anacardium nanum A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Anacardium occidentale L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

     (=Anacardium curatellifolium A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

    )
  • Anacardium othonianum Rizzini
  • 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...

    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 gracile Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...

  • Astronium graveolens
    Astronium graveolens
    Astronium graveolens is a species of flowering tree in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to Yucatán in Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Bolivia. Common names include Glassywood, Ronrón , and Aroeira...

    Jacq.
    Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
    Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....

  • Astronium nelson-rosae Santin
  • Astronium ulei Mattick
  • Lithraea
    Lithraea
    Lithraea is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae....

    molleoides
    Lithraea molleoides
    Lithraea molleoides Lithraea molleoides Lithraea molleoides (syn. Lithraea molleoides var. lorentziana Lillo, Lithraea ternifolia, Schinus brasiliensis Marchand ex Cabrera, Schinus leucocarpus M., Schinus molleoides (Vell.) Engler, Lithraea aroeirinha Marchand ex Warm...

    (Vell.) Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...

  • Myracrodruon urundeuva
    Myracrodruon urundeuva
    Myracrodruon urundeuva is a timber tree, which is often used for beekeeping...

    M.Allemão (=Astronium urundeuva Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...

    )
  • Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi
    Giuseppe Raddi
    Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...

  • Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi
    Giuseppe Raddi
    Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...

     var. pohlianus Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...

  • Spondias
    Spondias
    Spondias is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. The genus consists of 17 described species, 7 of which are native to the Neotropics and about 10 are native to tropical Asia...

    mombin
    Spondias mombin
    Spondias mombin is a tree, a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, including the West Indies. The tree has been naturalized in parts of Africa, India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. It is rarely cultivated.The mature fruit has a leathery skin and a...

    L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Spondias purpurea L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Tapirira
    Tapirira
    Tapirira is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family Anacardiaceae.Selected species:*Tapirira benthanniana*Tapirira chimalapana*Tapirira guianensis*Tapirira marchandii*Tapirira mexicana*Tapirira obtusa...

    guianensis
    Tapirira guianensis
    Tapirira guianensis is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    Aubl.
    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...

  • Tapirira marchandii
    Tapirira marchandii
    Tapirira marchandii is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...

  • Tapirira obtusa
    Tapirira obtusa
    Tapirira obtusa is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    (Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

    ) J.D.Mitchell

Annonaceae
Annonaceae
Annonaceae, also called the custard apple familyis a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs or rarely lianas.With about 2300 to 2500 species and more than 130 genera,...

  • Annona
    Annona
    Annona is a genus of flowering plants in the pawpaw/sugar apple family, Annonaceae. It is the second largest genus in the family after Guatteria, containing approximately 110 species of mostly neotropical and afrotropical trees and shrubs....

    cacans
    Annona cacans
    Annona coriacea is a fruit tree native to Atlantic Forest and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil and Paraguay...

    Warm.
  • Annona campestris R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Annona coriacea
    Annona coriacea
    Annona coriacea is a fruit tree native to Brazil. Commonly known as soursop, its original habitat includes the ecoregions of Cerrado, Caatinga, and Pantanal. Its wood is used in constructions and toys. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-References:*...

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Annona cornifolia
    Annona cornifolia
    Annona cornifolia is a species of flowering plant in the genus Annona of the Annonaceae family....

    A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Annona crassiflora
    Annona crassiflora
    Annona crassiflora, commonly known as the Marolo or Araticum do cerrado, is a flowering plant in the Annonaceae family. The flowers of a marolo look like jellyfishes wearing hats, and the fruits are sweet and very rough. It is native to Brazil and Paraguay and the fruit is eaten by native peoples...

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Annona crotonifolia Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Annona dioica A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Annona malmeana R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Annona montana
    Annona montana
    or Mountain soursop is an edible fruit and medicinal plant in the Annonaceae family native to Central America, the Amazon, and islands in the Caribbean. It has fibrous fruits.make a better juice...

    Macfad.
  • Annona monticola Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Annona muricata
    Annona muricata
    Annona muricata is a member of the family of Custard apple trees called Annonaceae and a species of the genus Annona known mostly for its edible fruits Anona. Annona muricata produces fruits that are usually called Soursop due to its slightly acidic taste when ripe. A...

    L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Annona pygmaea W.Bartram
    William Bartram
    William Bartram was an American naturalist. The son of Ann and John Bartram, William Bartram and his twin sister Elizabeth were born in Kingsessing, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. As a boy, he accompanied his father on many of his travels, to the Catskill Mountains, the New Jersey Pine Barrens,...

  • Annona reticulata
    Annona reticulata
    Annona reticulata is a small deciduous or semi-evergreen tree in the plant family Annonaceae.It is best known for its fruit, called custard-apple, a name it shares with fruits of other species from the same genus: A. cherimola and A. squamosa or sometimes it is called wild-sweetsop,...

    L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Annona tomentosa R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Bocageopsis mattogrosensis R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Cardiopetalum calophyllum Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

  • Duguetia
    Duguetia
    Duguetia is a genus of trees and shrubs in the plant family Annonaceae with approximately 90 species in central and South America, and four species in west Africa.- Species :*Duguetia aberrans Maas *Duguetia adiscandra Jans.-Jac....

    echinophora R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Duguetia furfuracea (A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

    ) Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

     & Hook.
    William Jackson Hooker
    Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...

  • Duguetia lanceolata A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Duguetia marcgraviana Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Ephedranthus parviflorus S.Moore
    Spencer Le Marchant Moore
    Spencer Le Marchant Moore was an English botanist.Moore was born in Hampstead. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from about 1870 to 1879, wrote a number of botanical papers, and then worked in an unofficial capacity at the Natural History Museum from 1896 until his death.Moore is...

  • Guatteria ferruginea
    Guatteria ferruginea
    Guatteria ferruginea is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is endemic to Suriname.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

    A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Guatteria nigrescens Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Guatteria parvifolia R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Guatteria pohliana Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

     ex Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Guatteria rupestris Mello-Silva et Pirani
  • Guatteria sellowiana Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

  • Guatteria silvatica R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Guatteria villosissima A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Oxandra
    Oxandra
    Oxandra is a genus of flowering plants in the soursop family, Annonaceae.-Selected species:* Oxandra lanceolata Baill.* Oxandra laurifolia A.Rich.* Oxandra leucodermis Warm.-External links:...

    reticulata Maas
    Paulus Johannes Maria Maas
    Paulus Johannes Maria Maas is a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics. Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family , the Gentian Family , the Bloodwort Family , the Banana Family , the Olacaceae, the...

  • Rollinia
    Rollinia
    Rollinia is a genus in the family Annonaceae. While it is widely recognised as a distinct genus a recent monograph advocates its inclusion in Annona, which also contains custard apples and soursops....

    emarginata Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

  • Rollinia deliciosa
    Rollinia deliciosa
    Rollinia deliciosa is a species of flowering plant in the custard-apple family, Annonaceae, that is native to tropical South America. It is cultivated for its edible fruits, commonly known as biriba, throughout the world's tropics and subtropics....

    DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Rollinia dolabripetala A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Rollinia laurifolia Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

  • Rollinia mucosa Baill.
    Henri Ernest Baillon
    Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...

  • Rollinia sericea R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Rollinia sylvatica (A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

    ) Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Unonopsis
    Unonopsis
    Unonopsis is a genus of plant in family Annonaceae. It contains the following species :* Unonopsis magnifolia, R.E. Fr.* Unonopsis velutina, P. Maas...

    guatterioides (DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

    ) R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Unonopsis lindmanii R.E.Fr.
    Robert Elias Fries
    Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...

  • Uvaria
    Uvaria
    Uvaria is a genus of flowering plants in the soursop family, Annonaceae.-Selected species:* Uvaria calamistrata Hance* Uvaria chamae P.Beauv. – Finger-root* Uvaria grandiflora Uvaria is a genus of flowering plants in the soursop family, Annonaceae.-Selected species:* Uvaria calamistrata ...

    macrocarpa Warm.
  • Xylopia
    Xylopia
    Xylopia is a genus of plant in family Annonaceae. This genus is solely composed of trees, distribution of which is pantropical . It contains the following species :* Xylopia africana, Oliv....

    aromatica
    Xylopia aromatica
    Xylopia aromatica is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family.It is a tree native to Cerrado grassland vegetation, particularly in the states of Goiás and Minas Gerais, in eastern Brazil....

    (Lam.
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...

    ) Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Xylopia brasiliensis
    Xylopia brasiliensis
    Xylopia brasiliensis is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    Spreng.
  • Xylopia emarginata
    Xylopia emarginata
    Xylopia emarginata is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Xylopia frutescens Aubl.
    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...

  • Xylopia grandiflora
    Xylopia grandiflora
    Xylopia grandiflora is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Xylopia sericea
    Xylopia sericea
    Xylopia sericea is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...


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...

  • Allamanda
    Allamanda
    Allamanda, also known as Yellow Bell, Golden Trumpet or Buttercup Flower, is a genus of tropical shrubs or vines belonging to the dogbane family .The genus Alamanda is native to South and Central America...

    angustifolia
    Allamanda angustifolia
    Allamanda angustifolia is a species of Allamanda genus in the Apocynaceae family, which is native from Brazil, typically in Cerrado vegetation. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:...

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Allamanda puberula var. glabrata
    Allamanda puberula
    Allamanda puberula is a species of Allamanda genus in the Apocynaceae family, which is native from Brazil, typically in Caatinga, and Cerrado vegetation...

    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:...

  • 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...

    cylindrocarpon
    Aspidosperma cylindrocarpon
    Aspidosperma cylindrocarpon is a timber tree native from Brazil, which is typical in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation...

    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:...

  • Aspidosperma dasycarpon
    Aspidosperma dasycarpon
    Aspidosperma dasycarpon is a tree native to Brazil, which is typical in Cerrado vegetation. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. In addition, it is useful for beekeeping.-External links:...

    A.DC.
  • Aspidosperma macrocarpon
    Aspidosperma macrocarpon
    Aspidosperma macrocarpon is a timber tree native to Brazil, which is typical of Cerrado vegetation...

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Aspidosperma parvifolium
    Aspidosperma parvifolium
    Aspidosperma parvifolium Aspidosperma parvifolium Aspidosperma parvifolium (syn. Aspidosperma argenteum Müll.Arg., Aspidosperma australe Müll.Arg., Aspidosperma pyricollum Müll.Arg., Aspidosperma olivaceum Müll.Arg., Aspidosperma vargasii A.DC., Aspidosperma ulei Markgr., Macaglia australis...

    A.DC.
  • Aspidosperma subincanum
    Aspidosperma subincanum
    Aspidosperma subincanum is a timber tree native to Brazil, which is typical of Cerrado vegetation. It was first described by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Aspidosperma tomentosum
    Aspidosperma tomentosum
    Aspidosperma tomentosum is a timber tree native to Brazil, which is typical of Cerrado vegetation. It was first described by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Hancornia
    Hancornia
    Hancornia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae.-External links:...

    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...

  • Himatanthus obovatus
    Himatanthus obovatus
    Himatanthus obovatus is a species of Himatanthus genus in the Apocynaceae family, which is native from Brazil, typically in Cerrado vegetation. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:*...

    (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:...

    ) Woodson

Aquifoliaceae

  • Ilex brasiliensis
    Ilex brasiliensis
    Ilex brasiliensis, "Brazilian holly," is a species of Ilex genus in the Aquifoliaceae family, which is native from Brazil, typically in Cerrado vegetation. It is occasionally used as an adulterant in maté....

    (Spreng.) Loes.
    Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener
    Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener was a German botanist.Collection of specimens in Europe: Amrum Islands , Alps, Black Forest, Bavaria, Tyrol, Rugen. Herbarium 14 Aquifoliaceae & cult. Ilex spp.-Abbreviation:...

  • Ilex cerasifolia
    Ilex cerasifolia
    Ilex cerasifolia is a species of Ilex genus in the Aquifoliaceae family, which is native from Brazil, typically in Cerrado vegetation....

    Reissek
  • Ilex conocarpa
    Ilex conocarpa
    Ilex conocarpa is a species of Ilex genus in the Aquifoliaceae family. It is native to Brazil, typically in Cerrado vegetation....

    Reissek
  • Ilex paraguariensis A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...


Araliaceae
Araliaceae
Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family or Ivy family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants into 2 subfamilies...

  • Didymopanax macrocarpum (Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

     et Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

    ) Seem.
    Berthold Carl Seemann
    Berthold Carl Seemann 25 February 1825 Hanover, Germany - 10 October 1871 Nicaragua, Central America, was a German botanist. He travelled widely and collected and described plants from the Pacific and South America....

  • Didymopanax morototoni (Aubl.
    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...

    ) Decne.
    Joseph Decaisne
    Joseph Decaisne was a French botanist and agronomist.Although he was born in Brussels, Belgium, he exercised his activity exclusively in Paris...

  • Didymopanax vinosum Marchal

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...

  • Acrocomia aculeata
    Acrocomia aculeata
    Acrocomia aculeata is a species of palm native to tropical regions of the Americas, from southern Mexico and the Caribbean south to Paraguay and northern Argentina. Common names include Grugru Palm, Macaúba Palm, Coyol Palm, and Macaw Palm; synonyms include A. lasiospatha, A. sclerocarpa, A. totai,...

    (Jacq.
    Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
    Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....

    ) Lodd.
    Loddiges
    The Loddiges family managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, palms and orchids into European gardens....

     ex Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • 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...

    geraensis Barb. Rodr.
  • Butia
    Butia
    Butia,also known as a Pindo Palm is a genus of palms in the family Arecaceae, native to South America in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina...

    leiospatha (Barb. Rodr.) Becc.
    Odoardo Beccari
    Odoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist perhaps best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878...

  • Butia paraguayensis
    Butia paraguayensis
    Butia paraguayensis is a species of palm tree found in the Gran Chaco region of South America. Its natural range runs from Mato Grosso do Sul and Parana in southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina...

    (Barb. Rodr.) L.H.Bailey
    Liberty Hyde Bailey
    Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.-Biography:...

  • Mauritia
    Mauritia
    Mauritia is a genus of fan palms which is native to northern South America. Mauritia flexuosa is widely distribution across northern South America, extending north to Trinidad, while the other M. carana is restricted to the Amazon region....

    flexuosa L.f.
    Carolus Linnaeus the Younger
    Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger was a Swedish naturalist...

  • Mauritia vinifera Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...


Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

  • Achyrocline
    Achyrocline
    Achyrocline is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family.It contains the following species:* Achyrocline glandulosa* Achyrocline hallii* Achyrocline mollis* Achyrocline satureioides...

    satureioides
    Achyrocline satureioides
    Achyrocline satureioides, also known as Macela or Marcela in Portuguese, Marcela in Spanish and Eloyatei-caá in a Tupi–Guarani language, is a medicinal plant, which cited as medicinal plant symbol of Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil.-External links:...

    (Lam.
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...

    ) DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Adenosthema viscosum Forst.
  • Aspilia
    Aspilia
    Aspilia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.Historically, Aspilia africana has been used inMbaise and most Igbo speaking parts of Nigeria to prevent conception suggesting potential contraceptive and anti-fertility properties.Leaf extract and fractions of A...

    latissima Malme
  • Baccharis
    Baccharis
    Baccharis is a genus of perennials and shrubs in the aster family . They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true brooms. They are not at all related to these however, but belong to an entirely...

    dracunculifolia DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Baccharis trimera DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Bidens
    Bidens
    Bidens is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It contains about 200 species. The common names beggarticks, black jack, bur-marigolds, stickseeds, tickseeds and tickseed sunflowers refer to the achene burrs on the seeds of this genus, most of which are barbed...

    gardneri 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....

  • Eremanthus
    Eremanthus
    Eremanthus Less is a genus of plants belonging to the Asteraceae family with 22 recorded species. All plants are native of Cerrado in Brazil....

    goyazensis Sch. Bip.
  • Eremanthus mattogrossensis Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

  • Eremanthus sphaerocephalus (DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

    ) 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....

  • Piptocarpha
    Piptocarpha
    Piptocarpha is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family....

    rotundifolia (Less.
    Christian Friedrich Lessing
    Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....

    ) 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....

  • Vanillosmopsis
    Vanillosmopsis
    Vanillosmopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family....

    erythropappa (DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

    ) Sch. Bip.
  • Vanillosmopsis polycephala (DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

    ) Sch. Bip.
  • Vernonia
    Vernonia
    Vernonia is a genus of about 1000 species of forbs and shrubs in the family Asteraceae. Some species are known as Ironweed. Some species are edible and of economic value. They are known for having intense purple flowers. The genus is named for English botanist William Vernon. There are numerous...

    brasiliana (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    ) Druce
    George Claridge Druce
    George Claridge Druce, MA, LLD, JP, FRS, FLS was an English botanist and a Mayor of Oxford.G. Claridge Druce was born at Potterspury on Watling Street in Northamptonshire. He was the illegitimate son of Jane Druce, born 1815 in Buckinghamshire.He went to school in the village of Yardley Gobion....

  • Vernonia ferruginea Less
    Christian Friedrich Lessing
    Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....

  • Vernonia florida Gardner
    George Gardner (botanist)
    George Gardner was a Scottish naturalist mainly interested in botany.Gardner's father was a gardener first to to the Earl of Dunmore in Ardentinny, then from 1816 to the Earl of Eglinton at Ardrossan. In 1822, his parents moved to Glasgow where he attended the grammar-school and acquired a...

  • Vernonia polyanthes (Spreng.) Less
    Christian Friedrich Lessing
    Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....

  • Vernonia rubriramea Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Vernonia ruficoma Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...


Balanophoraceae
Balanophoraceae
Balanophoraceae is a subtropical to tropical family of obligate parasitic flowering plants, notable for their unusual development and obscure affinities. The family consist of 17 genera and approximately 50 species...

  • Helosia brasiliensis Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....

     et Endl.
  • Langsdorffia hypogea Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...


Begoniaceae
Begoniaceae
Begoniaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 1400 species occurring in the subtropics and tropics of both the New World and Old World. All but one of the species are in the genus Begonia. The only other genus in the family, Hillebrandia, is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and has a single...

  • Begonia
    Begonia
    Begonia is a genus in the flowering plant family Begoniaceae and is a perennial. The only other members of the family Begoniaceae are Hillebrandia, a genus with a single species in the Hawaiian Islands, and the genus Symbegonia which more recently was included in Begonia...

    cucullata Ruiz
    Hipólito Ruiz López
    Hipólito Ruiz López , or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...

     ex A.DC.
  • Begonia fischeri Otto
    Christoph Friedrich Otto
    Christoph Friedrich Otto was a German gardener and botanist. He was born in Schneeberg, Saxony. From 1805 to 1843 he was inspector of the Botanical Garden in Berlin. Together with Albert Gottfried Dietrich he edited the Allgemeinen Gartenzeitung from 1833 until his death in 1856 in Berlin.The...

     et A.Dietr.
    Albert Gottfried Dietrich
    Albert Gottfried Dietrich was a German botanist who was a native of Danzig.Dietrich was curator at the Botanical Garden in Berlin and was an instructor at the institute of horticulture at Berlin-Schöneberg...

  • Begonia leptophylla Taub.
  • Begonia lobata Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....


Bignoniaceae
Bignoniaceae
The Bignoniaceae, or Trumpet Creeper Family, is a family of flowering plants comprising about 650-750 species in 116-120 genera. Members of the family are mostly trees and lianas , shrubs and more rarely herbaceous plants. As climber plants, they are twine climbers or tendril climbers, and rarely...

  • Anemopaegma
    Anemopaegma
    Anemopaegma chamberlaynii An evergreen vigorous climber from tropical South America, with leaves of two leaflets to 16 cm long and sometime a terminal tendril; flower funnel-form 6–8 cm long, in pendant clusters of yellow tubular flowers, the tube constricted near base. It prefers a...

    arvense
    Anemopaegma arvense
    Anemopaegma arvense is a medicinal plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    (Vell.) Stellf. ex Souza
  • Anemopaegma chamberlaynii var. tenerius Lam.
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...

  • Anemopaegma glaucum
    Anemopaegma glaucum
    Anemopaegma glaucum is a plant native to Caatinga and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-See also:*List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil...

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Anphilophium aff. paniculatum (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    ) Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

  • Arrabidaea brachypoda (DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

    ) Bureau
    Louis Édouard Bureau
    Louis Édouard Bureau was a French physician and botanist.Bureau began his medical studies in Nantes in 1848, where he held the post of director of the Muséum de Nantes . He completed his medical degree in Paris in 1852...

     et K. Schum.
  • Arrabidaea florida DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Arrabidaea pulchra Bureau
    Louis Édouard Bureau
    Louis Édouard Bureau was a French physician and botanist.Bureau began his medical studies in Nantes in 1848, where he held the post of director of the Muséum de Nantes . He completed his medical degree in Paris in 1852...

  • Cybistax
    Cybistax
    Cybistax is a genus that consists of about 5 species of flowering and economic timber trees from tropical Central and South America. These semi-deciduous plants have greyish green, opposite, palmately compounded leaves and close-grained, light-colored wood good for furniture...

    antisyphillitica Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Jacaranda
    Jacaranda
    Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of South America , Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. It is also found in Asia, especially in Nepal...

    brasiliana
    Jacaranda brasiliana
    Jacaranda brasiliana is a species of flowering plant in the Bignoniaceae family....

    Pers.
  • Jacaranda caroba
    Jacaranda caroba
    Jacaranda caroba is a medicinal plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil.-External links:**...

    (Vell.) DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Jacaranda decurrens
    Jacaranda decurrens
    Jacaranda decurrens is a medicinal plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

  • Jacaranda rufa
    Jacaranda rufa
    Jacaranda rufa is a medicinal plant native to Bolivia and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-External links:*...

    Silva Manso
  • Tabebuia
    Tabebuia
    Tabebuia is a neotropical genus of about 100 species in the tribe Tecomeae of the family Bignoniaceae. The species range from northern Mexico and southern Florida south to northern Argentina, including the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Cuba...

     alba
    Tabebuia alba
    Tabebuia alba , port. Ipê-amarelo-da-serra, also Golden Trumpet Tree, is a tree native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is found in the following states of Brazil: Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina,...

    (Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

    ) Sandw.
  • Tabebuia aurea
    Tabebuia aurea
    Tabebuia aurea is a species of Tabebuia native to South America in Suriname, Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, and northern Argentina. The common English name Caribbean Trumpet Tree is misleading, as it is not native to the Caribbean. It is a small dry season-deciduous tree growing to 8 m tall...

    Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

     et Hook.f.
    Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...

     ex S.Moore
    Spencer Le Marchant Moore
    Spencer Le Marchant Moore was an English botanist.Moore was born in Hampstead. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from about 1870 to 1879, wrote a number of botanical papers, and then worked in an unofficial capacity at the Natural History Museum from 1896 until his death.Moore is...

  • Tabebuia avellanedae Lorentz
    Lorentz
    Lorentz is a name derived from the Roman surname, Laurentius, which mean "from Laurentum". It is the German form of Laurence.Lorentz may refer to:- Literature :* Friedrich Lorentz, author of works on the Pomeranian language...

     ex Griseb.
    August Grisebach
    August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...

  • Tabebuia caraiba (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Bureau
    Louis Édouard Bureau
    Louis Édouard Bureau was a French physician and botanist.Bureau began his medical studies in Nantes in 1848, where he held the post of director of the Muséum de Nantes . He completed his medical degree in Paris in 1852...

  • Tabebuia ochracea
    Tabebuia ochracea
    Tabebuia ochracea is a timber tree native to South America, Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation in Brazil. It is very similar and closely related to and often confused with the Golden Trumpet Tree, Tabebuia chrysotricha.There are three subspecies:...

    (Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

    ) Standl.
    Paul Carpenter Standley
    Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...

  • Tabebuia roseo-alba
    Tabebuia roseo-alba
    Tabebuia roseo-alba, known as White Ipê, ipê-branco or lapacho blanco, is a tree native to Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation in Brazil, but also appears in Argentina Tabebuia roseo-alba, known as White Ipê, ipê-branco or lapacho blanco, is a tree native to Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation in Brazil,...

    (Ridl.
    Henry Nicholas Ridley
    Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...

    ) Sandw.
  • Tabebuia serratifolia
    Tabebuia serratifolia
    Yellow Lapacho is a tree native to forests throughout Central and South America. This plant grows in the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil, reaching up to French Guiana, Bolivia, Paraguay and Northern Argentina...

    (Vahl
    Martin Vahl (botanist)
    Martin Henrichsen Vahl was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI , Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III , Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II...

    ) Nichols.
  • Zeyhera digitalis (Vell.) Hoehne
  • Zeyhera montana Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Zeyhera tuberculosa (Vell.) Bureau
    Louis Édouard Bureau
    Louis Édouard Bureau was a French physician and botanist.Bureau began his medical studies in Nantes in 1848, where he held the post of director of the Muséum de Nantes . He completed his medical degree in Paris in 1852...


Bixaceae
Bixaceae
Bixaceae, or the achiote family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants. Under the Cronquist system, it was traditionally placed in the order Violales...

  • Cochlospermum
    Cochlospermum
    Cochlospermum is a genus of trees in the Cochlospermaceae family; many classifications place this genus in the family Bixaceae....

    regium (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Pilg.
    Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger
    Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger was a German botanist, who specialised in the study of conifers.The genera Pilgerodendron Florin and Pilgerochloa Eig are named in his honour.Selected bibliography...


Bombacaceae
Bombacaceae
Bombacaceae is a family of flowering plants or Angiospermae included within Malvales order. As is true for any botanical name, circumscription and status of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view...

  • Bombax
    Bombax
    Bombax is a genus of mainly tropical trees in the mallow family. They are native to western Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, as well as sub-tropical regions of East Asia and northern Australia. Common names for the genus include Silk Cotton Tree, Simal, Red Cotton Tree, Kapok and...

    campestre (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     et Zucc.
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:...

    ) K. Schum.
  • Bombax gracilipes K. Schum.
  • Bombax pubescens Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     et Zucc.
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:...

  • Eriotheca
    Eriotheca
    Eriotheca is a genus of flowering plant in the mallow family .Species include:* Eriotheca candolleana* Eriotheca gracilipes* Eriotheca pubescens* Eriotheca peruviana...

    gracilipes (K. Schum.) A. Robyns
  • Eriotheca pubescens (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     et Zucc.
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:...

    ) A. Robyns
  • Pseudobombax
    Pseudobombax
    Pseudobombax is a genus of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family. Subfamily: BombacoideaeSpecies include:* Pseudobombax argentinum - Soroche* Pseudobombax ellipticum* Pseudobombax guayasense* Pseudobombax millei - Beldaco...

    grandiflorum (Cav.
    Antonio José Cavanilles
    Antonio José Cavanilles was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania, his name is abbreviated as Cav...

    ) A. Robyns
  • Pseudobombax longiflorum (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     et Zucc.
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:...

    ) A. Robyns

Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae, the Borage or Forget-me-not family, include a variety of shrubs, trees, and herbs, totaling about 2,000 species in 146 genera found worldwide.A number of familiar plants belong to this family....

  • Cordia
    Cordia
    Cordia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 300 species of shrubs and trees, which are found worldwide mostly in warmer regions. Many of the species are commonly called manjack, while bocote may refer to several Central American species in Spanish...

    sellowiana Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

  • Cordia trichotoma (Vell.) Arráb. ex Steud.
    Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
    Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was a German physician and an authority on grasses.Steudel lived in Esslingen where with Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter he organized Unio Itineraria.- References :...


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...

    distichantha
    Aechmea distichantha
    Aechmea distichantha is a bromeliad typical of Cerrado vegetation in Brazil, which is also native to northern Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. This plant is often used as an ornamental plant....

    Lem.
    Charles Antoine Lemaire
    Charles Antoine Lemaire , was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae....

  • Ananas
    Ananas
    The genus Ananas belongs to the Bromeliad family . It is best known for the species Ananas comosus, the pineapple.This genus originated in Mesoamerica and was brought to the Caribbean Islands by the Carib natives...

    ananassoides
    Ananas ananassoides
    Ananas ananassoides is a species of the genus Ananas. This species is native to Bolivia, Brazil and Costa Rica.-Cultivars:* xAnagelia 'Norm Kretschmann'* xAnamea 'Pink Scorpion'-References:* Retrieved 21 October 2009...

    (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....

    ) L.B.Smith
  • Bromelia
    Bromelia
    Bromelia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. Bromelia species are characterized by flowers with a deeply cleft calyx. The genus is named after the Swedish medical doctor and botanist Olaf Bromelius .-Species:* Bromelia agavifolia Brongniart ex Houllet*...

    balansae
    Bromelia balansae
    Bromelia balansae is a species of the genus Bromelia. This species is native to Bolivia and Brazil.-References:* Retrieved 21 October 2009* Retrieved 22 October 2009* Retrieved 3 October 2011...

    Mez
    Carl Christian Mez
    Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...


Burseraceae
Burseraceae
Burseraceae is a moderate-sized family of 17-18 genera and about 540 species of flowering plants. The actual numbers differ according to the time period in which a given source is written describing this family. The Burseraceae is also known as the Torchwood family, the frankincense and myrrh...

  • Protium
    Protium (plant)
    Protium is a genus of more than 140 species of flowering plants in the family Burseraceae. It is native to the Neotropics , Madagascar, New Guinea, and southern Asia from Pakistan east to Vietnam...

    almecega
    Protium (plant)
    Protium is a genus of more than 140 species of flowering plants in the family Burseraceae. It is native to the Neotropics , Madagascar, New Guinea, and southern Asia from Pakistan east to Vietnam...

    March.
  • Protium heptaphyllum (Aubl.
    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...

    ) March.
  • Protium widgrenii Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...


Caesalpinioideae
Caesalpinioideae
Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name Caesalpinia....

  • Acosmium
    Acosmium
    Acosmium Schott is a South America genus of Leguminosae . Three species are currently recognized. Most Acosmium species have been recently transferred to Leptolobium Vogel , and one species to the South American Guianodendron Sch. Rodr. & A.M.G. Azevedo .- References :* Rodrigues, Rodrigo Schütz,...

    dasycarpum (Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

    ) Yak.
  • Acosmium subelegans (Molembr.) Yak.
  • Apuleia
    Apuleia
    Apuleia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Caesalpinioideae....

    leiocarpa (Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

    ) Macbr.
  • Bauhinia
    Bauhinia
    Bauhinia is a genus of more than 200 species of flowering plants in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers, Swiss-French botanists....

    bongardi Steud.
    Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
    Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was a German physician and an authority on grasses.Steudel lived in Esslingen where with Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter he organized Unio Itineraria.- References :...

  • Bauhinia forficata Link
    Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
    Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link was a German naturalist and botanist.Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link , who taught him the love for nature through collection of 'natural objects'...

  • Bauhinia holophylla Steud.
    Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
    Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was a German physician and an authority on grasses.Steudel lived in Esslingen where with Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter he organized Unio Itineraria.- References :...

  • Bauhinia rufa Steud.
    Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
    Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was a German physician and an authority on grasses.Steudel lived in Esslingen where with Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter he organized Unio Itineraria.- References :...

  • Chamaecrista
    Chamaecrista
    Chamaecrista is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Members of the genus are commonly known as sensitive pea. Several species are capable of rapid plant movement.-Selected species:...

    campestris (Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

    ) Irwin et Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...

  • Chamaecrista cathartica (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Irwin et Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...

  • Chamaecrista desvauxii (Collad.) Killip. var. glauca (Harsl) Irwin et Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...

  • Chamaecrista desvauxii (Collad.) Killip. var. langsdorffii (Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

     ex Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

    ) Irwin et Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...

  • Chamaecrista desvauxii (Collad.) Killip. var. mollissima (Benth
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

    ) Irwin et Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...

  • Chamaecrista flexuosa (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    ) Greene
    Edward Lee Greene
    Edward Lee Greene, Ph.D., was an American botanist known for his numerous publications including the two-part Landmarks of Botanical History and the naming or redescribing of over 4,400 species of plants in the American West.- Early Life :Edward Lee Greene was born on August 20, 1843 in...

  • Chamaecrista setosa (Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

    ) Irwin et Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...

  • Copaifera
    Copaifera
    Copaifera is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.The scientific name means "copal-bearer" , since economically important resins and essential oils can be acquired from them. They are also important for production of biodiesel and wood, especially Copaifera langsdorffii...

    elliptica Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Copaifera langsdorfii Desf.
    René Louiche Desfontaines
    René Louiche Desfontaines was a French botanist.Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures at the Jardin des Plantes given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier...

  • Copaifera oblongifolia Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Copaifera officinalis Vell.
  • Dimorphandra
    Dimorphandra
    Dimorphandra is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.-Species:* Dimorphandra caudata Ducke 1925 * Dimorphandra conjugata Sandwith 1932 * Dimorphandra macrostachya Benth. * Dimorphandra mollis Benth....

    exaltata Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....

  • Dimorphandra mollis
    Dimorphandra mollis
    Dimorphandra mollis, the Fava d'anta, is a tree species in the genus of Dimorphandra. It is a plant of the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.Fava d'anta contains astilbin and rutin....

    Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Diptychandra
    Diptychandra
    Diptychandra is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae....

    aurantiaca (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Tul.
  • Diptychandra glabra Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Hymenaea
    Hymenaea
    Hymenaea L. is a genus in the flowering plant family Fabaceae . Of fourteen living species in the genus, all but one are native to the tropics of the Americas, with one additional species on the east coast of Africa. Some authors place the African species in a separate monotypic genus, Trachylobium...

    stigonocarpa Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Sclerolobium
    Sclerolobium
    Sclerolobium is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Sclerolobium beaureipairei* Sclerolobium densiflorum* Sclerolobium denudatum* Sclerolobium pilgerianum* Sclerolobium striatum...

    aureum (Tul.) Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Sclerolobium paniculatum Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

  • Senna
    Senna (genus)
    Senna , the sennas, is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae. This diverse genus is native throughout the tropics, with a small number of species reaching into temperate regions. The number of species is usually estimated to be about 260, but some...

    bicapsularis
    Senna bicapsularis
    Senna bicapsularis is a species of the legume genus Senna, native to northern South America, from Panama south to Venezuela and Colombia, and also the West Indies. It is naturalised and invasive in several coastal areas in the tropics, including the Galápagos Islands and New Caledonia...

    L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Senna macranthera
    Senna macranthera
    Senna macranthera is a tree in the family of Fabaceae.With a height of 6 to 9 m, it has an abundance of yellow flowers from December to April in its homelands.- External links :* H.S. Irwin et Barneby, at Tela Botanica...

    (Colladon) lrwin et Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...

  • Senna rugosa (G.Don.) Irwin et Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...

  • Senna sylvestris (Vell.) Irwin et Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...

     var. bifaria Irwin & Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby
    Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae , the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups...


Caryocaraceae
Caryocaraceae
Caryocaraceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of two genera and about 25 species. The family is exclusively neotropical.- Species :Anthodiscus*Anthodiscus obovatus Benth. ex Wittm.*Anthodiscus pilosus Ducke...

  • Caryocar
    Caryocar
    Caryocar is a genus of flowering plants, in the South American family Caryocaraceae. There are 15 species in this genus, all trees that yield a strong timber. Eight species within the genus Caryocar have edible fruits, called souari-nuts or sawarri-nuts. The most well-known species is probably...

    brasiliense
    Caryocar brasiliense
    Caryocar brasiliense, known as Pequi or "souari nut", like its congeners, is an edible fruit popular in some areas of Brazil, especially in Brazil's center-west region....

    Cambess.
    Jacques Cambessèdes
    Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...


Celastraceae
Celastraceae
The Celastraceae , is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales...

  • Austroplenckia populnea (Reissek
    Siegfried Reisseck
    Siegfried Reisseck was an Austrian naturalist and botanist who specialized in spermatophytes and fungi.Reisseck was assistant keeper at the Royal Botanical Collection in Vienna between 1845 and 1867, when he was appointed head keeper; and from 1848 was a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.-...

     ex Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Lundell

Clethraceae
Clethraceae
Clethraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Asia and the Americas, with one species also on Madeira...

  • Clethra
    Clethra
    Clethra is a genus of between 30-70 species of flowering shrubs or small trees. It is one of two genera in the family Clethraceae...

    brasiliensis Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

     et Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

  • Clethra scabra Pers.

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...

  • Kielmeyera
    Kielmeyera
    Kielmeyera is a plant genus in the family Calophyllaceae. It is endemic to South America, with a large occurrence in the Brazilian cerrados.Species include:*Kielmeyera coriacea*Kielmeyera microphylla*Kielmeyera peruviana...

    coriacea
    Kielmeyera coriacea
    Kielmeyera coriacea is a medicinal plant native to Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation in Brazil. In addition, this plant is also used as a honey plant.-See also:*List of honey plants*List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     & Zucc.
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:...


Combretaceae
Combretaceae
Combretaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Myrtales. The family includes about 600 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 18 genera. The family includes the leadwood tree, Combretum imberbe. Three genera, Conocarpus, Laguncularia and Lumnitzera, grow in mangrove habitats ....

  • Terminalia
    Terminalia (plant)
    Terminalia is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising around 100 species distributed in tropical regions of the world. This genus gets it name from Latin terminus, referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots.Trees of this genus...

    argentea Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     et Zucc.
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:...

  • Terminalia brasiliensis (Chambess.) Eichler
    August W. Eichler
    August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...

  • Terminalia fagifolia Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     et Zucc.
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
    Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, but also described plants discovered in other areas, including Mexico.-References:...


Connaraceae
Connaraceae
The Connaraceae is a family of 16 genera and about 350 species.-Genera:* Agelaea* Burttia* Cnestidium* Cnestis* Connarus* Ellipanthus* Hemandradenia* Jollydora* Manotes* Pseudoconnarus* Rourea...

  • Connarus cf. regnelli Schel
  • Connarus suberosus Planch.
    Jules Émile Planchon
    Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent...


Dilleniaceae
Dilleniaceae
Dilleniaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It is known to gardeners for the genus Hibbertia, which contains many commercially valuable garden species....

  • Curatella americana L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...


Ebenaceae
Ebenaceae
The Ebenaceae are a family of flowering plants, which includes ebony and persimmon. The family has approximately 500 species of trees and shrubs in two genera, Diospyros and Euclea. The species are mostly evergreen and native to the tropics and subtropics, with a few deciduous species native to...

  • Diospyros
    Diospyros
    Diospyros is a genus of about 450–500 species of deciduous and evergreen trees. The majority are native to the tropics, with only a few species extending into temperate regions. They are commonly known as ebony or persimmon trees...

    hispida DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Diospyros sericea DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...


Erythroxylaceae
Erythroxylaceae
The Erythroxylaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of 4 genera and approximately 240 species. The best-known species is the coca plant , the source of the drug cocaine....

  • Erythroxylum
    Erythroxylum
    Erythroxylum is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Erythroxylaceae. Many species contain the drug cocaine; Erythroxylum coca, a native of South America, is the main commercial source of cocaine and of the mild stimulant coca tea...

    ambiguum A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Erythroxylum campestre A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Erythroxylum cuneifolium (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) O.E.Schulz
    Otto Eugen Schulz
    Otto Eugen Schulz was a German botanist, born in Berlin. He published important systematic treatments of the families Brassicaceae and Erythroxylaceae, and he is the authority for many species in these families. The standard abbreviation used for species for which he is the authority is O. E....

  • Erythroxylum deciduum A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Erythroxylum pelleterianum A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Erythroxylum suberosum A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Erythroxylum tortuosum Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...


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....

  • Actinostemon
    Actinostemon
    Actinostemon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae.-Synonyms:This genus is also known as:*Dactylostemon Klotzsch...

    conceptionis (Chodat
    Robert Hippolyte Chodat
    Robert Hippolyte Chodat was a Swiss botanist and phycologist who was a professor and director of the botanical institute at the University of Geneva....

     & Hassler
    Hassler
    Hassler is a toponymic surname derived from a number of places called Hasel or Hassel in German-speaking parts of Europe.People of this name include:*Des Hasler Australian rugby league footballer and coach...

    ) Pax.
  • 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....

    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.
    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:...

  • Croton
    Croton (genus)
    Croton is an extensive flowering plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, established by Carl Linnaeus in 1737. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton, but the latter also...

    floribunduns Spreng.
  • Croton lobatus L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • 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...

    caerulescens Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Manihot tripartita 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:...

  • Pera
    Pera (genus)
    Pera is a genus of the flowering plant family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus of its tribe . Pera differs from other Euphorbiaceae in several characteristics and some classifications place it in its own family, Peraceae....

    glabrata (Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....

    ) Baillon
    Louis Antoine François Baillon
    Louis Antoine François Baillon was a French naturalist and collector. He was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer and died in Abbeville....

  • Pera obovata Baillon
    Louis Antoine François Baillon
    Louis Antoine François Baillon was a French naturalist and collector. He was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer and died in Abbeville....


Faboideae
Faboideae
Faboideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. One acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae....

  • Aeschynomene
    Aeschynomene
    Aeschynomene is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. They are known commonly as jointvetches. These legumes are most common in warm regions and many species are aquatic...

    selloi Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

  • Amburana
    Amburana
    Amburana is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Amburana acreana* Umburana Do Cheiro...

    claudii (Fr.All.) A.C.Smith
  • Andira
    Andira
    Andira is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Andira aubletii Benth.* Andira galeottiana* Andira inermis* Andira humilis-External Links:* -References:...

    cf. anthelmia (Vell.) Macbr.
  • Andira laurifolia Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Andira humilis
    Andira humilis
    Andira humilis is a tree native from Brazil....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Andira inermis
    Andira inermis
    Andira inermis is a nitrogen-fixing tree native to the area from southern Mexico through Central America to northern South America ; it has been introduced to the Caribbean, the Antilles, Florida, and Africa...

    (W.Wright) DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Acosmium
    Acosmium
    Acosmium Schott is a South America genus of Leguminosae . Three species are currently recognized. Most Acosmium species have been recently transferred to Leptolobium Vogel , and one species to the South American Guianodendron Sch. Rodr. & A.M.G. Azevedo .- References :* Rodrigues, Rodrigo Schütz,...

    subelegans (Mohlenbr.) Yakovlev
    Gennady Yakovlev
    Gennady Pavlovich Yakovlev Russian botanist.Director of Leningrad chemical-pharmaceutical Institute. Expert in Leguminosae taxonomy.-Plants authored by G. P. Yakovlev:* Acosmium panamense Yakovlev...

  • Arachis
    Arachis
    Arachis is a genus of about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the pea family , native to South America. At least one species, the peanut , is a major food crop species of global importance; some of the other species are cultivated for food to a small extent in South America....

    pintoi
    Arachis pintoi
    Arachis pintoi is a forage plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. It is native to the valleys of the upper São Francisco and the Jequitinhonha rivers of Brazil...

    Krapov.
    Antonio Krapovickas
    Antonio Krapovickas is an Argentine agronomist.Krapovickas received a degree in 1948 in agronomic engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and began teaching in 1949 as Professor of Genetics and Systems Botany at the University of Córdoba...

     & W.C.Gregory
  • Bowdichia
    Bowdichia
    Bowdichia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae....

    virgilioides Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

  • Camptosema
    Camptosema
    Camptosema is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae....

    ellipticum (Desv.
    Nicaise Auguste Desvaux
    -Works:*Journal de Botanique, appliquée à l'Agriculture, à la Pharmacie, à la Médecine et aux Arts .*Observations sur les plantes des environs d'Angers ....

    ) Burkart
  • Centrosema
    Centrosema
    Centrosema, the butterfly peas, are a genus of tropical American vines in the legume family . Species include:* Centrosema angustifolium Benth.* Centrosema arenarium Benth.* Centrosema brasilianum Benth....

    pubescens Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Dalbergia
    Dalbergia
    Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. The genus has a wide distribution, native to the tropical regions of Central and South America, Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia...

    miscolobium Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Dalbergia violaceae (Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

    ) Malme
  • Dipteryx
    Dipteryx
    Dipteryx is a genus containing nine species of shrubs and trees. It belongs to the "papillionoid" subfamily – Faboideae – of the legume family . This genus is native to South and Central America and the Caribbean...

    alata Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

  • Erythrina
    Erythrina
    Erythrina is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 130 species, which are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. They are trees, growing up to in height...

    mulungu
    Erythrina mulungu
    Erythrina mulungu is a Brazilian ornamental tree and medicinal plant native to the cerrado and caatinga ecoregions in Brazil , South America....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Machaerium
    Machaerium
    Machaerium is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species:* Machaerium chambersii*Machaerium cirrhiferum * Machaerium cuzcoense* Machaerium glabripes* Machaerium nicaraguense...

    aculeatum Raddi
    Giuseppe Raddi
    Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...

  • Machaerium acutifolium Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

  • Machaerium brasiliense Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

  • Machaerium nictitans (Vell.) Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Machaerium opacum Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

  • Machaerium scleroxylon Tull.
  • Machaerium villosum
    Machaerium villosum
    Machaerium villosum, the Jacarandá-do-Cerrado, Jacarandá-Pardo, Jacarandá-Paulista, or Jacarandá-Pedra, is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family. It is found only in Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...

    Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

  • Ormosia
    Ormosia
    Ormosia is a genus of legumes . The more than 110 living species, mostly trees or large shrubs, are distributed throughout the tropical regions of the world, some extending into temperate zones, especially in East Asia. A few species are threatened by habitat destruction, while the Hainan Ormosia...

    arborea (Vell.) Harms.
  • Platypodium
    Platypodium
    Platypodium is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae....

    elegans
    Platypodium elegans
    Platypodium elegans or the graceful platypodium is a large leguminous tree found in the Neotropics that forms part of the forest canopy. It was first described by Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel in 1837 and is the type species of the genus. The tree has been known to grow up to 30 metres in...

    Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel
    Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel was a botanist. His author abbreviation is Vogel.-References:...

  • Pterodon
    Pterodon
    Pterodon is a game developer located in the Czech Republic. In the year of 2006 they joined Illusion Softworks. Pterodon was founded in 1997 by Jarek Kolář and Michal Janáček.The logo of this company is a pterosaur, presumably a Pteranodon...

    polygaeflorus
    Pterodon polygalaeflorus
    Pterodon polygalaeflorus is a Brazilian legume of Cerrado.Widely distributed in the west of Minas Gerais and in Goiás, Brazil, the fruit oil of this plant is used to deter skin penetration by Schistosome cercariae....

    Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Pterodon pubescens Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...


Flacourtiaceae
Flacourtiaceae
Flacourtiaceae is a defunct family of flowering plants whose former members have been scattered to various other families, mostly to Achariaceae, Samydaceae, and Salicaceae. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it became a dumping ground for odd and anomalous...

  • Casearia
    Casearia
    Casearia is a plant genus in the family Salicaceae. The genus was included in the Flacourtiaceae under the Cronquist system of angiosperm classification, and earlier in the Samydaceae. Recent research indicates that the latter group might be reinstated as a valid family.They are sometimes employed...

    arborea (Rich.
    Louis Claude Richard
    Louis Claude Marie Richard was a French botanist.Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies...

    ) Urb.
    Ignatz Urban
    Ignatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate...

  • Casearia decandra Jacq.
    Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
    Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....

  • Casearia grandiflora A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Casearia lasiophylla
    Casearia lasiophylla
    Casearia lasiophylla is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Sources:* Torres, R.B. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

    Eichler
    August W. Eichler
    August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...

  • Casearia obliqua Spreng.
  • Casearia silvestris Schwartz

Guttiferae

  • Calophyllum
    Calophyllum
    Calophyllum is a flowering plant genus of around 180-200 species of tropical evergreen trees in the family Calophyllaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek words καλος , meaning "beautiful", and φυλλον , meaning "leaf." Its members are native to Australasia, Madagascar, Eastern Africa,...

    brasiliense
    Calophyllum brasiliense
    Calophyllum brasiliense is a species of Calophyllum native to subtropical and tropical regions of Central America, South America and Caribe.-Description:...

    Cambess.
    Jacques Cambessèdes
    Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...

  • Kielmeyera
    Kielmeyera
    Kielmeyera is a plant genus in the family Calophyllaceae. It is endemic to South America, with a large occurrence in the Brazilian cerrados.Species include:*Kielmeyera coriacea*Kielmeyera microphylla*Kielmeyera peruviana...

    coriacea
    Kielmeyera coriacea
    Kielmeyera coriacea is a medicinal plant native to Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation in Brazil. In addition, this plant is also used as a honey plant.-See also:*List of honey plants*List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil...

    (Spreng.) Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Kielmeyera rubriflora Cambess.
    Jacques Cambessèdes
    Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...

  • Kielmeyera variabilis (Spreng.) Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...


Hippocrateaceae
Hippocrateaceae
Hippocrateaceae Juss. previously consisted of about 150 tropical and subtropical species of shrubs and lianes, and is now included in the Celastraceae family...

  • Salacia
    Salacia (genus)
    Salacia is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae.-Medicinal uses:Several species in this genus of plant have been used in traditional medical systems for thousands of years, particularly in the Ayurveda system from India. Uses have included treatment of diabetes, obesity, gonorrhea,...

    campestris Walp.
    Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers
    Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers was a German botanist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Walp. when citing a botanical name.-Works:*Repertorium botanices systematicæ...

  • Salacia crassiflora (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Peyr.
    Johann Joseph Peyritsch
    Johann Joseph Peyritsch was an Austrian physician and botanist who was a native of Völkermarkt.In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate from Vienna, and from 1878 to 1889 was a professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck...

  • Salacia micrantha (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Peyr.
    Johann Joseph Peyritsch
    Johann Joseph Peyritsch was an Austrian physician and botanist who was a native of Völkermarkt.In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate from Vienna, and from 1878 to 1889 was a professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck...


Icacinaceae
Icacinaceae
Icacinaceae is a family of flowering plants.It consists of trees, shrubs, and lianas, primarily of the tropics.The family was traditionally circumscribed quite broadly, with around 55 genera totalling over 400 species...

  • Emmotum
    Emmotum
    Emmotum is a genus of flowering plants. It belongs to an informal group of six genera known as the Emmotum group. These are: Calatola, Ottoschulzia, Oecopetalum, Poraqueiba, Emmotum, and Platea. Platea is native to Asia, while the others are from the New World...

    nitens (Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

    ) Miers
    John Miers (botanist)
    John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....


Labiatae

  • Hyptis
    Hyptis
    Hyptis is a genus of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family. These plants, known commonly as bushmints, are widespread in the tropics and warmer temperate regions of the Americas...

    cana Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

     ex Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Hyptis crinita Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...


Lauraceae
Lauraceae
The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 3500, perhaps as many as 4000, species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America...

  • Aiouea
    Aiouea
    Aiouea is a botanical genus of plants in the family of the Lauraceae endemic of Central America and South America. Genus Aiouea is distributed from southern Mexico to southern Brazil and Paraguay...

    trinervea Meisn.
    Carl Meissner
    Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...

  • Nectandra
    Nectandra
    Nectandra is a genus of plant in family Lauraceae.-Overview:Plants from this genus have been used in the treatment of several clinical disorders in humans. It has been demonstrated that Nectandra plants have potential analgesic, antiinflammatory, febrifuge, energetic and hypotensive activities...

    cuspidata Ness
    Helge Ness
    Helge Ness was a Norwegian botanist. He was born in Rosendal, Norway.In 1889, he became the first international student to graduate from Texas A&M University, and began to work at that university...

     et Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Nectandra lanceolata Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ocotea
    Ocotea
    Ocotea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. The genus includes over 200 species of evergreen trees and shrubs, distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical regions of Central and South America, the West Indies, also with a few species in Africa and Madagascar, and...

    acutifolia (Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

    ) Mez
    Carl Christian Mez
    Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...

  • Ocotea corymbosa Mez
    Carl Christian Mez
    Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...

  • Ocotea minarum Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

  • Ocotea pulchella Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Ocotea velutina Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Persea
    Persea
    Persea is a genus of about 150 species of evergreen trees belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The best-known member of the genus is the avocado, P. americana, widely cultivated in subtropical regions for its large, edible fruit.-Overview:...

    pyrifolia
    Persea pyrifolia
    Persea pyrifolia is a species of plant in the Lauraceae family. It is found in Brazil and Mexico.-References:* Pedralli, G. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

     Nees
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
    Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

     et Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...


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...

  • Cariniana
    Cariniana
    Cariniana is a genus of trees in the family Lecythidaceae, native to South America. Many are of importance for timber production.It contains the following species:* Cariniana decandra* Cariniana estrellensis...

    estrellensis (Raddi
    Giuseppe Raddi
    Giuseppe Raddi was an Italian botanist.-Biography:He was apprenticed to a druggist, but obtained employment in the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterward became his protector, and in 1817 sent him to Brazil to study the cryptogams of the country...

    ) Kuntze
    Otto Kuntze
    Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...


Loganiaceae
Loganiaceae
Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants classified in order Gentianales. The family includes 13 genera, distributed around the world's tropics.Earlier treatments of the family have included up to 29 genera...

  • Antonia ovata
    Antonia ovata
    Antonia ovata is a plant species in the genus Antonia.-External links:...

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Strychnos
    Strychnos
    Strychnos is a genus of flowering plants, belonging to family Loganiaceae . The genus includes about 190 species of trees and lianas, distributed around the world's tropics....

    brasiliensis (Spreng.) Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Strychnos pseudoquina A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...


Lythraceae
Lythraceae
Lythraceae are a family of flowering plants. It includes about 620 species of mostly herbs, with some shrubs and trees, in 31 genera. Major genera include Cuphea , Lagerstroemia , Nesaea , Rotala , and Lythrum...

  • Lafoensia
    Lafoensia
    Lafoensia is a genus of plant in family Lythraceae. It contains the following species :Lafoensia glyptocarpaLafoensia pacari  St.-Hil.Lafoensia replicata  Pohl...

    pacari
    Lafoensia pacari
    Lafoensia pacari is a species of plant in the Lythraceae family. It is found in Brazil and Paraguay.-References:* Cavalcanti, T.B. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....

    A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Lafoensia replicata
    Lafoensia replicata
    Lafoensia replicata is a species of plant in the Lythraceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Cavalcanti, T.B. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....

    Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....


Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. It comprises approximately 75 genera and 1300 species, all of which are native to the tropics and subtropics...

  • Banisteriopsis adenopoda (A.Juss.
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...

    ) B.Gates
  • Banisteriopsis campestris (A.Juss.
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...

    ) Settle
    Settle
    Settle is a small market town and civil parish within the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is served by the Settle railway station, which is located near the town centre, and Giggleswick railway station which is a mile away. It is from Leeds Bradford Airport...

  • Banisteriopsis pubipetala (A.Juss.
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...

    ) Cuatrec.
  • Byrsonima
    Byrsonima
    Byrsonima is one of about 75 genera in the Malpighiaceae, a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. In particular in American English, they are known as locustberries...

    basiloba A.Juss.
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...

  • Byrsonima coccolobifolia (Spreng.) Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

  • Byrsonima coriacea (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    ) Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

  • Byrsonima crassa Nied.
    Franz Josef Niedenzu
    Franz Josef Niedenzu was a German botanist born in Köppernig. For most of his career he was a professor and subsequently rector at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg, East Prussia...

  • Byrsonima crassifolia (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    ) Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

  • Byrsonima cydonaefolia A.Juss.
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...

  • Byrsonima intermedia A.Juss.
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...

  • Byrsonima subterranea Brade
    Alexander Curt Brade
    Alexander Curt Brade was a German botanist who specialized in the study of the orchids and ferns of Brazil. Brade also realized an important and early series of collections of the flora of Costa Rica between 1908 and 1910 with his brother Alfred, who lived in San Jose and owned a horticultural...

     et Markgr.
  • Byrsonima verbascifolia (L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    ) Rich.
    Louis Claude Richard
    Louis Claude Marie Richard was a French botanist.Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies...

     ex A.Juss.
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...


Melastomataceae
Melastomataceae
right|thumb|200px|Characteristic venation of many melastomesThe family Melastomataceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics comprising some 200 genera and 4500 species...

  • Acisanthera alsinaefolia (DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

    ) Triana
    José Jéronimo Triana
    José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...

  • Miconia
    Miconia
    Miconia is a genus of flowering plants in the glory bush family, Melastomataceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas. The species are mostly shrubs and small to medium-sized trees up to 15 m tall...

    albicans (Sw.
    Olof Swartz
    Olof Peter Swartz was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes...

    ) Triana
    José Jéronimo Triana
    José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...

  • Miconia candolleana Triana
    José Jéronimo Triana
    José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...

  • Miconia chamissois Naud.
  • Miconia cinerascens Miq.
    Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
    Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...

  • Miconia fallax DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Miconia langsdorffii Cogn.
    Alfred Cogniaux
    Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....

  • Miconia ligustroides (DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

    ) Naud.
  • Miconia macothyrsa Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Miconia minutiflora DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Miconia paulensis Naud.
  • Miconia pepericarpa DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Miconia pohliana Cogn.
    Alfred Cogniaux
    Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....

  • Miconia rubiginosa (Bonpl.) DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Miconia sellowiana Naud.
  • Miconia stenostachya DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Miconia theezans (Bom.) Cogn.
    Alfred Cogniaux
    Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....


Meliaceae
Meliaceae
The Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs in the order Sapindales....

  • Cedrela fissilis
    Cedrela
    Cedrela is a genus of seven species in the mahogany family Meliaceae. They are evergreen or dry-season deciduous trees with pinnate leaves, native to the tropical and subtropical New World, from southern Mexico south to northern Argentina. The name is derived from a diminutive form of Cedrus...

    Vell.
  • Cedrela odorata
    Cedrela odorata
    Cedrela odorata . The genus Cedrela has undergone two major systematic revisions since 1960. The most recent revision reduced the number of species in the genus to seven . The common cedro, Cedrela odorata L., embraces 28 other named species, including C. mexicana M. J...

    L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Cabralea cangerana Sald.
  • Cabralea polytricha Juss.
    Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
    Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.-Life:...

  • Tapirira
    Tapirira
    Tapirira is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family Anacardiaceae.Selected species:*Tapirira benthanniana*Tapirira chimalapana*Tapirira guianensis*Tapirira marchandii*Tapirira mexicana*Tapirira obtusa...

    guianensis
    Tapirira guianensis
    Tapirira guianensis is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    Aubl.
    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...

  • Tapirira marchandii
    Tapirira marchandii
    Tapirira marchandii is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil....

    Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...


Mimosaceae

  • Acacia
    Acacia
    Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not...

    paniculata Willd.
    Carl Ludwig Willdenow
    Carl Ludwig Willdenow was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants...

  • Acacia plumosa
    Acacia plumosa
    Acacia plumosa is a medicinal plant native to Brazil, which is also called Unha de Gato in Portuguese....

    Lowe.
  • Acacia polyphylla DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Anadenanthera
    Anadenanthera
    Anadenanthera is a genus of South American trees in the Legume family, Fabaceae. The genus contains two to four species, including A. colubrina and A. peregrina...

    falcata (Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

    ) Speg.
  • Anadenanthera macrocarpa
    Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil
    Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil Altschul is a mimosa-like timber tree native to Caatinga and Cerrado vegetation in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. It has also been introduced to Mauritius. It grows up to 25 m tall, with a trunk diameter of 60-90 cm. The tree's...

    (Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

    ) Brenan
    John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan
    John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan was a British botanist. He was born June 19, 1917 in Chislehurst and died September 26, 1985 at Kew. He is buried at St. Anne's Church, Kew....

  • Calliandra
    Calliandra
    Calliandra is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Mimosoideae. It contains about 200 species that are native to tropical and subtropical regions of southern Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas.-Biological description:...

    macrocephala
    Calliandra macrocephala
    Calliandra macrocephala is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the Fabaceae family.-References:*...

    Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Enterolobium
    Enterolobium
    Enterolobium is a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to tropical and warm-temperate regions of the Americas...

    gummiferum (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Macbride
  • Mimosa
    Mimosa
    Mimosa is a genus of about 400 species of herbs and shrubs, in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek word μιμος , meaning "mimic."...

    acerba Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Mimosa chaetosphera Barn.
  • Mimosa debilis Humb. et Bonpl.
  • Mimosa laticifera Rizzini et N.F.Mattos
  • Mimosa leptocaulis Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Platymenia reticulata Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Stryphnodendron
    Stryphnodendron
    Stryphnodendron is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Stryphnodendron adstringens* Stryphnodendron coriaceum* Stryphnodendron guianense* Stryphnodendron harbesonii...

    adstringens
    Stryphnodendron adstringens
    Stryphnodendron adstringens is a species of legume in the genus Stryphnodendron found in Brazil.S. adstringens stem bark is used to produce tannins of the prorobinetinidins or prodelphinidins type...

    (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Coville
    Frederick Vernon Coville
    Frederick Vernon Coville was an American botanist who careered in the United States Department of Agriculture , where he became Chief Botanist, and was the first director of the United States National Arboretum...

  • Stryphnodendron obovatum Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Stryphnodendron polyphyllum Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...


Moraceae
Moraceae
Moraceae — often called the mulberry family or fig family — are a family of flowering plants comprising about 40 genera and over 1000 species. Most are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less so in temperate climates...

  • Brosimum
    Brosimum
    Brosimum is a genus of plants in the mulberry family, Moraceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.The Breadnut was used by the Maya civilization for its edible nut. The dense vividly colored scarlet wood of Satine Bloodwood is used for decorative woodworking...

    gaudichaudii Trecul
  • Cecropia
    Cecropia
    Cecropia is a Neotropical genus presently consisting of sixty-one recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees....

    pachystachia Trecul

Myrsinaceae
Myrsinaceae
Myrsinaceae, or the Myrsine family, is a rather large family from the order Ericales. It consists of 35 genera and about 1000 species....

  • Cybianthus detergens Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Myrsine
    Myrsine
    Myrsine is a genus of flowering plants, the nominate genus of the family Myrsinaceae. It is found nearly worldwide, primarily in tropical and subtropical areas...

    ferruginea (Sw.
    Olof Swartz
    Olof Peter Swartz was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes...

    ) R. Br. ex Roem & Schult.
    Josef August Schultes
    Josef August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Father of Julius Hermann...

  • Myrsine umbellata Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Rapanea
    Rapanea
    Rapanea is a genus of plant in family Myrsinaceae.Species include:* Rapanea acuminata* Rapanea allenii Lundell, Central & South America* Rapanea ceylanica Mez, Sri Lanka endemic* Rapanea coclensis Lundell, Panama endemic...

    ferruginea (Ruiz
    Hipólito Ruiz López
    Hipólito Ruiz López , or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...

     et Pav.
    José Antonio Pavón Jiménez
    José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...

    ) Mez
    Carl Christian Mez
    Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...

  • Rapanea guianensis (Aubl.
    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...

    ) Kuntze
  • Rapanea lancifolia (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Mez
    Carl Christian Mez
    Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...

  • Rapanea oblonga Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Rapanea umbellata (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Mez
    Carl Christian Mez
    Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...


Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae
The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here. All species are woody, with essential oils, and flower parts in multiples of four or five...

  • Calyptranthes clusiaefolia O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Calyptranthes lucida Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Campomanesia
    Campomanesia
    Campomanesia is a genus of the botanical family Myrtaceae.Selected species* Campomanesia adamantium Blume*Campomanesia phaea*Campomanesia pubescens O.Berg*Campomanesia velutina O.Berg-External links:...

    adamantium Blume
    Carl Ludwig Blume
    Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...

  • Campomanesia pubescens (DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

    ) O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Campomanesia velutina (Cambess.
    Jacques Cambessèdes
    Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...

    ) O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Eugenia
    Eugenia
    Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,000 species occur in the New World tropics, especially in the northern Andes, the Caribbean, and the...

    aurata O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Eugenia bimarginata DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Eugenia blastantha (O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

    ) D.Legrand
  • Eugenia cerasiflora Miq.
    Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
    Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...

  • Eugenia dysenterica DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Eugenia hiemalis Cambess.
    Jacques Cambessèdes
    Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...

  • Eugenia klotzschiana O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Eugenia kunthiana DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Eugenia livida O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Eugenia pitanga (O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

     ex Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Kiaersk.
  • Eugenia pluriflora Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Eugenia punicifolia (Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

    ) DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Eugenia racemulosa O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Eugenia uruguayensis Cambess.
    Jacques Cambessèdes
    Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...

  • Myrcia
    Myrcia
    Myrcia is a genus of the flowering plant family Myrtaceae.Selected species* Myrcia albobrunnea* Myrcia albo-tomentosa DC.* Myrcia almasensis* Myrcia bella Cambess.* Myrcia calcicola...

    albo-tomentosa DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia bella Cambess.
    Jacques Cambessèdes
    Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...

  • Myrcia castrensis (O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

    ) D.Legrand
  • Myrcia fallax DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia formosiana DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia guayavaefolia O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Myrcia laruotheana Cambess.
    Jacques Cambessèdes
    Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...

  • Myrcia lasiantha DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia lingua O.Berg. Mattos et D.Legrand
  • Myrcia multiflora (Lam.
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...

    ) DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia pallens DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia pruniflora DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia rostrata DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia sphaerocarpa
    Myrcia sphaerocarpa
    Myrcia sphaerocarpa is native to the Amazon Basin of Latin America. The root extract, known as "Pedra Hume de Kaá" is used by the natives as a powerful healing poultice. Research has been conducted on it in Brazil as an anti-diabetic drug.-See also:...

    DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia tomentosa DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrcia uberavensis O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Myrcia venulosa DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Myrciaria
    Myrciaria
    Myrciaria is a genus of large shrubs and small trees native to South America, especially Brazil. Common names include Jaboticaba, Jabuticaba, Guaperu, Guapuru, Hivapuru, Sabará, and Ybapuru....

    ciliolata O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Myrciaria delicatula O.Berg
    Otto Karl Berg
    Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg....

  • Psidium australe Cambess.
    Jacques Cambessèdes
    Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...

  • Psidium cinereum
    Psidium cinereum
    Psidium cinereum is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.-Source:* Barroso, G.M. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Psidium incanescens Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...


Myristicaceae
Myristicaceae
Myristicaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists; it is sometimes called the "nutmeg family", after its most famous member, Nutmeg ....

  • Virola
    Virola
    Virola, also known as Epená, Patricá, or Cumala, is a genus of medium-sized trees native to the South American rainforest and closely related to other Myristicaceae, such as nutmeg...

    sebifera
    Virola sebifera
    Virola sebifera,also known as Myristica sebifera, common names Ucuúba-do-Cerrado and red ucuuba, is a type of tree from the family Myristicaceae, from Central America and South America...

    Aubl.
    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...


Nyctaginaceae
Nyctaginaceae
Nyctaginaceae, the Four O'Clock Family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions...

  • Neea
    Neea
    Neea is a genus of plant in family Nyctaginaceae. It contains the following species :* Neea acuminatissima, Standl.* Neea amplexicaulis, Dwyer & Hayden* Neea darienensis, Dwyer & Hayden...

    theifera Oerst.
    Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)
    Anders Sandøe Ørsted, also written as Anders Sandoe Oersted or Anders Sandö Örsted was a Danish botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist. He was nephew of the brothers physicist H.C...

  • Pisonia
    Pisonia
    Pisonia is a genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock flower family, Nyctaginaceae. It was named for Dutch physician and naturalist Willem Piso . Certain species in this genus are known as Catchbirdtrees because their sticky seeds reportedly trap small birds...

    campestris Netto
    Ladislau de Souza Mello Netto
    Ladislau de Souza Mello Netto was a Brazilian botanist and director of the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janeiro.Ladislau Netto was appointed museum director in 1870, as a substitute, and 1876, as full director, by the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II, who strove to make the museum a showcase...

  • Pisonia tomentosa Casar.

Orchidaceae
Orchidaceae
The Orchidaceae, commonly referred to as the orchid family, is a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales. Along with the Asteraceae, it is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species,...

  • Epidendrum
    Epidendrum
    Epidendrum , abbreviated Epi in horticultural trade, is a large neotropical genus of the orchid family. With more than 1,100 species, some authors describe it as a mega-genus. The genus name refers to its epiphytic growth habit...

    secundum
    Epidendrum secundum
    Epidendrum secundum, one of the crucifix orchids, is a poorly understood reed stemmed species, which Dressler describes as "the Epidendrum secundum complex." According to Dressler, there are dozens of varieties, some of which appear to deserve species rank...

    Jacq.
    Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
    Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....


Ochnaceae
Ochnaceae
The family Ochnaceae, or wild plane family, comprises mainly trees or shrubs, and more rarely herbaceous plants. Species of the Ochnaceae are found from subtropical to tropical regions. They are best represented in South America...

  • Ouratea
    Ouratea
    Ouratea is a genus of flowering plants in the wild plane family .Species include:* Ouratea amplectens* Ouratea boliviana Van Tieghem* Ouratea brevicalyx* Ouratea cocleensis* Ouratea confertiflora Engl....

    castanaefolia Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...

  • Ouratea floribunda (A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

    ) Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...

  • Ouratea nana (A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

    ) Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...

  • Ouratea spectabilis (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Engl.
    Adolf Engler
    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...


Opiliaceae
Opiliaceae
Opiliaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. It consists of perhaps a dozen genera, totalling several dozen species of tropical woody plants. Several genera contain parasitic species. The biggest genus, in number of species and in stature of the individual plants, is...

  • Agonandra brasiliensis
    Agonandra brasiliensis
    Agonandra brasiliensis is a timber tree native to Amazon Rainforest and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is Brazilian wood export, and it is often used for flooring and furniture, specially chair production....

    Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

     et Hook.f.
    Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...


Passifloraceae
Passifloraceae
Passifloraceae is a family of flowering plants, containing about 530 species classified in around 18 genera. They include trees, shrubs, lianas and climbing plants, and are mostly found in tropical regions....

  • Passiflora kermesina
    Passiflora kermesina
    Passiflora kermesina is a native ornamental plant of Brazil, which is found in the wild in Caatinga and Cerrado vegetation. In addition, this plant is cited in The Floral Cabinet & Magazine of Exotic Botany 1837-1840 by G.B...

    Link & Otto (=Passiflora raddiana DC.)

Polygalaceae
Polygalaceae
The Polygalaceae or Milkwort family is a family of flowering plants in the order Fabales. They have a near-cosmopolitan range, with about 17 genera and 900–1,000 species of herbs, shrubs and trees...

  • Bredemeyra floribunda Willd.
    Carl Ludwig Willdenow
    Carl Ludwig Willdenow was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants...


Proteaceae
Proteaceae
Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...

  • Roupala
    Roupala
    Roupala is a genus of plant in family Proteaceae. It contains the following species :* Roupala brachybotrys, I.M. Johnst.* Roupala loxensis, I.M. Johnst.* Roupala pinnata, Diels...

    brasiliensis Klotzsch
    Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
    Johann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...

  • Roupala gardneri Meisn.
    Carl Meissner
    Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...

  • Roupala heterophylla Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Roupala lucens Meisn.
    Carl Meissner
    Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...

  • Roupala montana Aubl.
    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...


Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...

  • Alibertia concolor (Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

    ) K.Schum.
    Karl Moritz Schumann
    Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...

  • Alibertia edulis (L.C. Rich.) A.C. Rich.
  • Alibertia macrophylla K.Schum.
    Karl Moritz Schumann
    Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...

  • Alibertia sessilis (Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

    ) K.Schum.
    Karl Moritz Schumann
    Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...

  • Amaioua
    Amaioua
    Amaioua is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Jean Baptiste Aublet in 1775. The genus is found from Mexico to tropical America.-Species:* Amaioua brevidentata Steyerm.* Amaioua contracta Standl....

    guianensis Aubl.
    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...

  • Borreria latifolia (Aubl.
    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...

    ) K.Schum.
    Karl Moritz Schumann
    Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...

     var. latifolia f. fockeana (Miq.
    Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
    Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...

    ) Steyerm.
    Julian Alfred Steyermark
    Julian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...

  • Rustia
    Rustia
    Rustia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Rustia alba, Delprete* Rustia bilsana, Delprete* Rustia viridiflora, Delprete...

    formosa (Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

     et Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

    ) Klotzsch
    Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
    Johann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...

  • Tocoyema formosa (Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

     et Schltdl.
    Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
    Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...

    ) K.Schum.
    Karl Moritz Schumann
    Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...


Rutaceae
Rutaceae
Rutaceae, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, is a family of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents...

  • Dictyoloma inanescens DC.
    A. P. de Candolle
    Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

  • Zanthoxylum
    Zanthoxylum
    Zanthoxylum is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue family, Rutaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. Common names include Prickly-ash and Hercules' Club.The fruit of several species are used to make the spice...

    hiemale A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Zanthoxylum rhoifolium Lam.
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...


Sapindaceae
Sapindaceae
Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales. There are about 140-150 genera with 1400-2000 species, including maple, horse chestnut and lychee....

  • Cupania
    Cupania
    Cupania is a plant genus in the family Sapindaceae.-List of species:* C. alternifolia* C. americana* C. glabra* C. guatemalensis* C. vernalis-See also:* List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil...

    zanthoxylloides Cam.
  • Dilodendron bipinnatum Radlk.
    Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
    Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer , was a noted Bavarian taxonomist and botanist, who was Professor of Botany at the University of Munich....

  • Magonia
    Magonia (plant)
    Magonia is a botanical genus including 28 species of flowering plants in the Sapindaceae family.-Selected species:*Magonia amentacea*Magonia apetala*Magonia brachysepala*Magonia brachystachya*Magonia carpinodes...

    glabrata A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Magonia pubescens A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...


Sapotaceae
Sapotaceae
Sapotaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Ericales. The family includes approximately 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in approximately 65 genera . Distribution is pantropical....

  • Chrysophyllum
    Chrysophyllum
    Chrysophyllum is a genus of about 70-80 species of tropical trees, growing rapidly to 10–20 m or more in height. The genus is native to tropical regions throughout the world, with the greatest number of species in northern South America. One species, C...

    marginatum (Hook.
    William Jackson Hooker
    Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...

     et Arn.) Radlk.
    Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
    Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer , was a noted Bavarian taxonomist and botanist, who was Professor of Botany at the University of Munich....

  • Pouteria
    Pouteria
    Pouteria is a genus of flowering trees in the gutta-percha family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical regions of the world. It includes the Canistel , the Mamey Sapote and the Lúcuma...

    ramiflora Radlk.
    Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
    Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer , was a noted Bavarian taxonomist and botanist, who was Professor of Botany at the University of Munich....

  • Pouteria torta Radlk.
    Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
    Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer , was a noted Bavarian taxonomist and botanist, who was Professor of Botany at the University of Munich....


Solanaceae
Solanaceae
Solanaceae are a family of flowering plants that include a number of important agricultural crops as well as many toxic plants. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant", but the further etymology of that word is unclear...

  • Cestrum
    Cestrum
    Cestrum is a genus of - depending on authority - 150-250 species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. They are native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas, from the southernmost United States south to the Bío-Bío Region in central Chile...

    lanceolatum Miers
    John Miers (botanist)
    John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....

  • Cestrum sendtnerianum Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Sendt.
  • Solanum
    Solanum
    Solanum, the nightshades, horsenettles and relatives, is a large and diverse genus of annual and perennial plants. They grow as forbs, vines, subshrubs, shrubs, and small trees, and often have attractive fruit and flowers. Many formerly independent genera like Lycopersicon or Cyphomandra are...

    concinnum Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
    Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well known for his extensive work on the aroids ....

     ex Sendt.
  • Solanum granuloso-leprosum Dun.
  • Solanum inaequale
    Solanum inaequale
    Solanum pseudoquina is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil. A rare plant, it is dependent on conservation of its habitat to prevent it from becoming a threatened species....

    Vell.
  • Solanum lycocarpum A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Solanum paniculatum
    Solanum paniculatum
    Solanum paniculatum, commonly known as Jurubeba, is a nightshade common in almost all of Brazil. It is used as a medicinal plant and has a bitter taste....

    L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Solanum sisymbrifolium Lam.
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...


Styracaceae
Styracaceae
Styracaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing 11 genera and about 160 species of trees and shrubs. The family occurs in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere....

  • Styrax
    Styrax
    Styrax is a genus of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority in eastern and southeastern Asia, but also crossing the equator in South America...

    camporum Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Styrax ferrugineus Ness
    Helge Ness
    Helge Ness was a Norwegian botanist. He was born in Rosendal, Norway.In 1889, he became the first international student to graduate from Texas A&M University, and began to work at that university...

     et Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Styrax martii Seub.
    Moritz August Seubert
    Moritz August Seubert was a German botanist.- Life :Seubert was the son of a medical officer of health. He first attended the Lyzeum in Karlsruhe and already at that time had contact with the botanist, Alexander Braun, who interested him in this subject...

  • Styrax pohlii A.DC.

Symplocaceae
Symplocaceae
Symplocos is a genus of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing about 250 species native to Asia, Australia and the Americas.Symplocos species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including The Engrailed....

  • Symplocos celastrinea Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

     ex Miq.
    Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
    Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...

  • Symplocos lanceolata (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) A. DC.
  • Symplocos nitens (Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

    ) Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Symplocos platyphylla (Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

    ) Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Symplocos pubescens Klotzsch
    Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
    Johann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...

     ex Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  • Symplocos tenuifolia Brand.
  • Symplocos uniflora Benth.
    George Bentham
    George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...


Tiliaceae
Tiliaceae
Tiliaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family is not part of APG II, but it is found all through the botanical literature and remains prominently listed by nomenclatural databases such as IPNI....

  • Apeiba
    Apeiba
    Apeiba is a genus of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family.Species include:*Apeiba albiflora* Apeiba intermedia*Apeiba tibourbou...

    tibourbou
    Apeiba tibourbou
    Apeiba tibourbou is a tree native to Caatinga and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil, and Costa Rica. It is used as an alternative fiber crop to make paper.-See also:*List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil...

    Aubl.
    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...

  • Guazuma ulmifolia
    Guazuma ulmifolia
    Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. is also commonly known as guácima, guácimo , tablote, majagua de toro tapaculo, cualote, cambá-acá, as well as many other names. It is a small to medium sized tree normally found in pastures and disturbed forests. This flowering plant from the Malvaceae family grows up to...

    Lam.
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...

  • Luehea
    Luehea
    Luehea is a genus of trees, in the Malvaceae family....

    candicans Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Luehea divaricata
    Luehea divaricata
    Luehea divaricata is a species of tree native to the cerrado area of Brazil, particularly the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul. It is known by various local names including "açoita-cavalo", "açoita-cavalo miúdo", "ibatingui", "ivatingui", "pau-de-canga", and "caiboti".-Traditional uses:L....

    Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Luehea grandiflora Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Luehea paniculata Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Luehea rufescens A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Luehea uniflora A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...


Verbenaceae
Verbenaceae
Verbenaceae, commonly known as the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell.Recent phylogenetic studies have shown that...

  • Aegiphila
    Aegiphila
    Aegiphila is a genus of plant in family Verbenaceae.Species include:* Aegiphila cordifolia, Moldenke* Aegiphila fasciculata, J.D...

    lhotskiana
    Aegiphila lhotskiana
    Aegiphila lhotskiana is a tree native to Bolivia and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius....

    Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

  • Aegiphila sellowiana
    Aegiphila sellowiana
    Aegiphila sellowiana is a tree in the Verbenaceae family native to Atlantic Forest and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.-See also:...

    Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

  • Aegiphila tomentosa Cham.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...


Vochysiaceae
Vochysiaceae
Vochysiaceae is a plant family belonging to the order of Myrtales.-Description:Trees or shrubs with opposite leaves; flowers are zygomorph 1--5 merous; ovary inferior or superior; one fertile stamen; fruits samara or capsules-Biogeography:...

  • Callisthene minor Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Qualea
    Qualea
    Qualea is a flowering plant genus in the family Vochysiaceae. These plants occur in the Neotropics and their wood makes good timber and firewood and is used in construction....

    cordata Spreng.
  • Qualea dichotoma (Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

    ) Warm.
  • Qualea glauca Warm.
  • Qualea grandifloa Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Qualea multiflora Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Qualea parviflora Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Salvestia convallariodora A.St.-Hil.
    Augustin Saint-Hilaire
    Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...

  • Vochysia
    Vochysia
    Vochysia is a genus of plant in family Vochysiaceae. It contains the following species, among others:* Vochysia aurifera, Standl. & L.O. Williams...

    cinnamomea Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Vochysia discolor Warm.
  • Vochysia elliptica Spreng. Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Vochysia rufa Spreng. Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

  • Vochysia thyrsoidea Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
    Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician.Johan Emanuel Pohl grew up in , studied in Prague and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808....

  • Vochysia tucanorum (Spreng.) Mart.
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
    Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

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