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Eucommia ulmoides
species of gum-producing tree
Angelica sinensis
species of plant
Gerrardina
Gerrardina is a genus of two species of trees, shrubs, and scrambling shrubs found in southeastern Africa. Until recently, the genus was placed in the polyphyletic family Flacourtiaceae, but it was abnormal there due to its apical placentation, small embryos, and mucilaginous foliar epidermis. Analyses of DNA data indicated that the genus did not fit in any known plant family and not clearly in any then-recognized order, and a new family, Gerrardinaceae, was thus created for it. Later analyses of additional DNA data and data from wood anatomy indicated that the family should be placed in the o
Hamamelis mollis
species of plant
Kirkia
Kirkia is a genus of plant in family Kirkiaceae. It was previously placed in family Simaroubaceae, but was transferred into Kirkiaceae, together with Pleiokirkia, because these genera produce neither quassinoids nor limonoids.
Petrocosmea
thumb|right|Petrocosmea forrestii, leaf rosette Petrocosmea is a genus of the family Gesneriaceae, the African violet family. Many of the species within this genus are endemic to high-elevation areas in Western China, although some are native to other parts of Asia. including north-central and southern China, Indochina, and the eastern Himalayas. It is a rosette-forming genus that generally grows on wet mossy rocks or forests.
Ctenolophon
Ctenolophon is the only genus in the flowering plant family Ctenolophonaceae. It has two recognized species:
Loropetalum chinense
species of plant
Utricularia sandersonii
species of plant
Dipteronia
Dipteronia is a genus with two living and one extinct species in the soapberry family Sapindaceae. The living species are native to central and southern China. The fossil species has been found in Middle Paleocene to Early Oligocene sediments of North America and China.
Erythrophleum fordii
species of plant
Cassia abbreviata
species of plant
Tetracentron sinense
species of plant
Strophanthus kombe
species of plant
Dipteronia sinensis
species of plant
Viola abyssinica
species of plant
Hillebrandia sandwicensis
Hillebrandia sandwicensis is a species of a herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to some of the Hawaiian Islands. Common names include akaakaawa and pua maka nui. The genus name honors the German physician William Hillebrand.
Emmenopterys henryi
species of plant
Rhynchocalyx lawsonioides
Rhynchocalyx lawsonioides, the false-waterberry, is a small flowering tree, the sole species of the genus Rhynchocalyx. It had also previously been regarded as the only species in the monogeneric family Rhynchocalycaceae but is now included in the expanded Penaeaceae along with Olinia (formerly of the Oliniaceae) under the APG III system of classification. Rhynchocalyx is endemic to the KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic ecoregion of the Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.
Emmenopterys
Emmenopterys is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in China, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Alsodeiopsis
Alsodeiopsis Oliver is a genus of plants in the family Icacinaceae native to tropical Africa. There are about 11 species. Seventeen species names have been published in Alsodeiopsis, but many of these are synonyms. The type species, Alsodeiopsis mannii was named by Daniel Oliver in 1869.
Sycopsis
Sycopsis is a genus of plants in the family Hamamelidaceae. It includes three species native to central and southern China, Assam, and Taiwan.
Bothriocline
Bothriocline is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to tropical Africa and some islands of the Indian Ocean. They are hairy annual and perennial herbs with purple or mauve flowers.
Piptostigma
Piptostigma is a genus of plant in family Annonaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):
Euphorbia grantii
species of plant
Porphyrostemma
Porphyrostemma is a genus of African plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae.
Utricularia jamesoniana
species of plant
Strombosia pustulata
species of plant
Allanblackia floribunda
species of plant
Xylopia africana
species of plant
Soyauxia
Soyauxia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Peridiscaceae. They are small trees or erect shrubs from wet forests of tropical West Africa. Eight specific names have been published in Soyauxia. Additional species have been discovered, but their names and descriptions will not be published until 2009 or 2010. The type species for the genus is Soyauxia gabonensis.
Irvingia malayana
species of plant
Phyllostachys heteroclada
species of plant
Nyssa sinensis
species of plant
Scottellia
Scottellia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Achariaceae. Members of this genus are native to the tropical Africa.
Tapiscia sinensis
species of plant
Lepidostephium
Lepidostephium is a genus of South African flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal.
Utricularia campbelliana
species of plant
Saruma
Saruma is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Aristolochiaceae containing the single species Saruma henryi. It is endemic to China, where it occurs in Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, and Sichuan.
Itea ilicifolia
species of plant
Dendrocalamus sikkimensis
species of plant
Rhaptopetalum
Rhaptopetalum is a genus of plants in the family Lecythidaceae.
Acridocarpus socotranus
species of plant
Harrisonia abyssinica
species of plant
Aphanocalyx
Aphanocalyx is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Detarioideae. It includes 14 species native to tropical Africa, ranging from Sierra Leone to Côte d'Ivoire, and from Cameroon to Angola and Tanzania.
Octolepis
Octolepis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Thymelaeaceae.
Anemone thomsonii
species of plant
Riedelia
genus of plants
Pteleocarpa lamponga
Pteleocarpa is a genus of flowering plants. The only member of the genus is the western Malesian tree Pteleocarpa lamponga. It has had a varied systematic history and has been placed in the families Icacinaceae, Cardiopteridaceae, Boraginaceae, and others. It has long been regarded as enigmatic. For example, its winged fruit is quite odd within the family Boraginaceae, where it was usually placed in the 2000s. The family name Pteleocarpaceae had been used, but was not validly published until 2011, when the required description was published in Kew Bulletin. A morphological study of Pteleocarpa
Humboldtia decurrens
species of plant
Chimonanthus nitens
species of plant
Cochlospermum angolense
species of plant
Ancistrocarpus
Ancistrocarpus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Utricularia spruceana
species of plant
Notothixos
Notothixos is a genus of mistletoe plant in the family Santalaceae.
Sindechites
Sindechites is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1888. It is native to southern China, Laos, and Thailand.
Utricularia kumaonensis
species of plant
Utricularia multicaulis
species of plant
Petraeovitex
Petraeovitex is a genus of eight climbing shrubs species known to science, of the mint family Lamiaceae (formerly placed within Verbenaceae). Collectively, they grow naturally in Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, the Philippines, the Moluccas, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands and Cape York Peninsula, Australia.
Tapiscia
Tapiscia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Tapisciaceae. Some authors recognize only one species, Tapiscia sinensis. Other authors recognize two species, T. sinensis and T. yunnanensis.