Flashcards: Neotropic ecozone flora

Cariniana pyriformis (known as Colombian mahogany or abarco) is a species of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family.

Abolboda is a genus of flowering plants, traditionally and nowadays (Kubitzki system and APG II) assigned to family Xyridaceae.

Abuta is a genus in the flowering plant family Menispermaceae, of about 32 species, native to tropical Central and South America.

Aiphanes hirsuta is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.

Machaerium cirrhiferum, the espuela de gallo or espuela de gato, is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

Gustavia is a genus of flowering plants of Lecythidaceae family described by Linnaeus in 1775.

Melpomene is a genus of grammitid ferns in the Polypodiaceae family.

Anomospermum is a genus of flowering plant in the Menispermaceae family.

Danaea kalevala is a species of fern belonging to the family Marattiaceae.

Ampelocera hottlei is a species of neotropical trees in the Ulmaceae family.

Acanthella is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae.

Hygrophila costata, with the common names glush weed, gulf swampweed, and yerba de hicotea, is an aquatic plant The plant is endemic to , is native to Neotropic ecoregions.

Cojoba rufescens is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

Calycogonium (common name, angleflower) is a polyphyletic genus of about forty species in the family Melastomataceae, native to the Caribbean, particularly Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Cuba.

The Bala De Cañón, Coco De Mono, Paraíso, Zapote De Mico, or Zapote De Mono (Couroupita nicaraguarensis, the epithet often spelled as nicaraguensis) is a species of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family.

Couratari guianensis, the fine-leaf wadara, cachimbo caspi, cachimbo, capa de tabaco, coco cabuyo, or tauari, is a species of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family.

Drimys is a genus of about eight species of woody evergreen flowering plants, in the family Winteraceae.