Flora of Northeast Brazil

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Worsleya is a genus of Brazilian plants in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae, cultivated as an ornamental because of its showy, pale violet flowers, often with a yellow stripe down the middle of each tepal. There is only one known species, Worsleya procera, native to eastern Brazil. It is endemic to the mountains around Petrópolis, about north of Rio de Janeiro. Here the sickle-shaped leaves curve northward. When grown in the northern hemisphere, the leaves curve southward. It has one of the largest bulbs, around high by up to thick near the base) and also rarest members of the subfamily Ama

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Harpochilus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It includes three species endemic to northeastern Brazil.

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Rauia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae.

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Melanoxylum is genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes a single species, Melanoxylum brauna, the yellow-flowered brauna tree. It is native to eastern Brazil. The genus is part of subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

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Sweetia fruticosa is a species of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is a tree native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It is the only member of the genus Sweetia (though some sources also include Sweetia atrata Mohlenbr.). It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae, mainly on the basis of flower morphology; recent molecular phylogenetic analyses assigned Sweetia fruticosa into an informal, monophyletic clade called the "vataireoids".

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Standleya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.

Arapatiella is a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes two species of trees native to northeastern Brazil.

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Moldenhawera is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 12 species of trees and shrubs endemic to eastern Brazil. They grow in diverse habitats, including restinga (tropical moist coastal forest, woodland, and scrub on podzolized sandy soils just above the beach line), coastal dunes, wooded grassland (cerrado), low mountain scrub on sandstone-derived soils, and rocky montane grassland (campo rupestre). It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

Blanchetia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, It is endemic to Brazil (states of Bahia, Alagoas, Paraíba, Pernambuco, and Sergipe).

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Roucheria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Linaceae.

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