Endangered Plants of South America
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| Common Name | Range *** |
|---|---|
| Abarema spp. (10) | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Sri Lanka |
| Acacia spp. (2) | Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Hawaii, India, Jamaica, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Yemen |
| Acalypha spp. (6) | China, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Taiwan |
| Acidocroton spp. (1) | Colombia, Jamaica |
| Acmella leucantha | Ecuador |
| Adenostemma spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Aegiphila spp. (8) | Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua |
| Aetheolaena spp. (10) | Ecuador |
| Aiouea spp. (3) | Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica |
| Aiphanes spp. (6) | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Albizia spp. (3) | Angola, Argentina, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Dominican Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Jamaica, Mauritius, Mexico, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela |
| Alchornea spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Allophylus spp. (1) | Cameroon, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Ecuador, Indian Ocean (Seychelles), Jamaica, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Zimbabwe |
| Alternanthera spp. (8) | Ecuador |
| Amanoa spp. (1) | Angola, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone |
| American Mahogany | Central and South America |
| Amphitecna spp. (1) | Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama |
| Andean Wax Palm (5) | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
| Angostura alipes | Ecuador |
| Aniba spp. (11) | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela |
| Annona spp. (10) | Cuba, Ecuador, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Venezuela |
| Aphelandra spp. (15) | Ecuador |
| Arachnothryx spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Araucaria spp. (2) | Argentina, Australia (Norfolk Island), Brazil, Chile, New Caledonia, Paraguay |
| Aristida guayllabambensis | Ecuador |
| Arrojadoa spp. (2) | Brazil |
| Asplenium spp. (2) | China, Ecuador, Hawaii, St. Helena, Yemen |
| Asplundia spp. (13) | Ecuador |
| Aster quitensis | Ecuador |
| Asterophorum mennegae | Suriname |
| Astragalus sprucei | Ecuador |
| Aulonemia longiaristata | Ecuador |
| Ayapanopsis luteynii | Ecuador |
| Badilloa atrescens | Ecuador |
| Banara spp. (4) | Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Puerto Rico |
| Baru Tree | Brazil |
| Bauhinia spp. (7) | Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, Kenya, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania |
| Bedstraw (3) | California, Ecuador |
| Begonia spp. (32) | Cameroon, China, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Nigeria, Yemen |
| Berberis spp. (3) | California, China, Ecuador, India, Kazakhstan, Peru |
| Big Leaf Mahogany | South America |
| Bitterwood | Venezuela |
| Blakea spp. (16) | Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama |
| Blechnum spp. (3) | China, Ecuador |
| Bolivian Mountain Coconut | Bolivia |
| Bomarea spp. (14) | Ecuador |
| Bonnetia spp. (12) | Colombia, Guyana, Venezuela |
| Brazilian Rain Tree | Brazil |
| Brosimum glaziovii | Brazil |
| Browneopsis spp. (3) | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru |
| Brunellia spp. (17) | Colombia, Ecuador, Panama |
| Buddleja spp. (4) | China, Ecuador, Taiwan |
| Bulnesia carrapo | Colombia |
| Bunchosia spp. (1) | Cuba, Ecuador, Jamaica |
| Bursera spp. (1) | Ecuador (Galapagos Islands), Jamaica, Vietnam |
| Cacosmia spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Caesalpinia spp. (2) | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Hawaii, Paraguay, Vietnam |
| Calamagrostis spp. (8) | Ecuador, Hawaii |
| Calathea spp. (21) | Ecuador |
| Calliandra spp. (3) | Ecuador, Jamaica, Peru |
| Calycorectes spp. (5) | Brazil, Peru |
| Campomanesia spp. (7) | Brazil |
| Candle Tree (1) | Colombia, Panama |
| Caper Shrub (2) | Ecuador, Hawaii, India, Mexico, Panama, Peru |
| Carex spp. (4) | California, Ecuador, North Carolina |
| Casearia spp. (2) | Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Panama, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania |
| Cecropia spp. (6) | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru |
| Centronia spp. (4) | Colombia, Peru |
| Cereus mirabella | Brazil |
| Chilean Wine Palm | Chile |
| Chloroleucon extortum | Brazil |
| Chlorospatha spp. (4) | Ecuador |
| Chrysophyllum spp. (11) | Brazil, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Ghana, Peru, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands |
| Cigar-box Wood | South America |
| Cinchona spp. (4) | Ecuador |
| Cinnamomum spp. (1) | China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, India, Peru, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam |
| Citharexylum spp. (8) | Cuba, Ecuador, Peru |
| Clibadium spp. (10) | Ecuador |
| Clidemia spp. (10) | Ecuador |
| Clinopodium mutabile | Ecuador |
| Clitoria spp. (4) | Ecuador, Peru |
| Clusia spp. (8) | Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Panama, Peru |
| Coccoloba spp. (1) | Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico |
| Colombian Walnut | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru |
| Commoner Lignum Vitae | Central and South America |
| Connarus spp. (1) | Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Malaysia |
| Copaifera spp. (1) | Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Panama, Sierra Leone, Suriname |
| Coprosma spp. (2) | Chile, New Zealand |
| Coralberry (6) | Cameroon, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Philippines |
| Cordia spp. (5) | Africa, Central America, North America, South America |
| Cotopaxia asplundii | Ecuador |
| Couratari spp. (10) | Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela |
| Coussarea spp. (5) | Ecuador, Mexico |
| Coyote Bush (7) | Ecuador |
| Cronquistianthus spp. (5) | Ecuador |
| Crownbeard (11) | Brazil, Ecuador, Jamaica |
| Cyathea spp. (7) | Ecuador, Puerto Rico |
| Cynanchum spp. (19) | China, Ecuador |
| Cyperus spp. (1) | Cameroon, Ecuador, Hawaii |
| Dacryodes spp. (1) | Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Colombia, Gabon, Malaysia |
| Dalea spp. (3) | Alabama, Ecuador, Illinois, Tennessee |
| Daphnopsis spp. (5) | Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico |
| Dendropanax spp. (2) | China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Peru |
| Dendrophorbium spp. (12) | Ecuador |
| Dendroseris spp. (11) | Chile |
| Dennstaedtia spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Dichapetalum spp. (1) | Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Sao Tome and Principe |
| Dicliptera spp. (2) | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ecuador |
| Dicranopygium spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Dioscorea spp. (4) | Ecuador |
| Diospyros spp. (2) | Asia, Australia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indian Ocean (Seychelles), Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Congo, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam |
| Dipteryx charapilla | Peru |
| Drymonia spp. (8) | Ecuador |
| Ecclinusa spp. (3) | Brazil, Venezuela |
| Elaeagia spp. (2) | Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico |
| Enche-Cangalha | Brazil |
| Erigeron spp. (3) | Ecuador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Oregon |
| Erythrina spp. (3) | Cuba, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Tanzania, Virgin Islands |
| Erythroxylum spp. (2) | Cuba, Ecuador, Indian Ocean (Seychelles), Jamaica, Malaysia, Peru, Sri Lanka, Yemen |
| Eschweilera spp. (21) | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela |
| Eudema nubigena | Ecuador |
| Eugenia spp. (12) | Brazil, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Hawaii, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka |
| Euphorbia spp. (4) | Ecuador, Ethiopia, Hawaii, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, Republic of Congo, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Spain, St. Helena, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
| Faramea spp. (2) | Ecuador, Peru |
| Festuca spp. (5) | Ecuador |
| Fig Tree (13) | Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, India, Indian Ocean (Reunion), Indian Ocean (Seychelles), Kenya, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania |
| Fir Clubmoss (11) | Ecuador, Hawaii |
| Flamingo Flower (53) | Ecuador |
| Floscaldasia azorelloides | Ecuador |
| Flueggea spp. (1) | Ecuador, Hawaii, Turkey |
| Flying Goldfish (16) | Ecuador |
| Freziera spp. (32) | Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Martinique - West Indies, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, West Indies (Dominica) |
| Fringe Tree (6) | Brazil, Florida, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Peru, Venezuela, Zambia |
| Fuchsia spp. (8) | Ecuador |
| Geissanthus spp. (6) | Ecuador |
| Geonoma irena | Ecuador |
| Geranium spp. (8) | Ecuador, Hawaii |
| Gnaphalium spp. (5) | Ecuador |
| Gonzalagunia spp. (4) | Ecuador |
| Graffenrieda spp. (4) | Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru |
| Grammitis basalis | Ecuador |
| Greigia spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Grias spp. (4) | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Guettarda spp. (1) | Jamaica, New Caledonia, Peru |
| Guevaria spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Guzmania spp. (37) | Ecuador |
| Gynoxys spp. (18) | Ecuador, Peru |
| Halenia spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Hampea spp. (1) | Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama |
| Heliconia spp. (16) | Ecuador |
| Heliotropium spp. (2) | Ecuador, Yemen |
| Henriettella spp. (3) | Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana |
| Hernandia spp. (1) | Cuba, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Indian Ocean (Reunion), Jamaica, Mauritius, Pitcairn |
| Herrania spp. (3) | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Hibiscus spp. (1) | Ecuador, Hawaii, Mauritius, Yemen |
| Hirtella spp. (2) | Colombia, Ecuador, Tanzania |
| Holly (20) | Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Venezuela |
| Holywood Lignum Vitae | Central and South America |
| Huberodendron patinoi | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Huilaea spp. (7) | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Humiriastrum melanocarpum | Colombia |
| Inga spp. (63) | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Martinique - West Indies, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, West Indies (Dominica) |
| Iresine pedicellata | Ecuador |
| Iryanthera spp. (2) | Brazil, Panama |
| Jatropha spp. (1) | Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico |
| Joosia spp. (6) | Ecuador |
| Kingianthus spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Klarobelia spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Kotchubaea montana | Peru |
| Ladenbergia spp. (7) | Ecuador, Peru |
| Lafoensia replicata | Brazil |
| Lecythis spp. (6) | Brazil, Guyana |
| Lemna ecuadoriensis | Ecuador |
| Lepechinia spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Lepidaploa violiceps | Ecuador |
| Lepidium spp. (2) | Ecuador, Hawaii, Utah |
| Leptolejeunea tridentata | Colombia |
| Licania spp. (8) | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru |
| Lidflower (2) | British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands |
| Lithophila subscaposa | Ecuador (Galapagos Islands) |
| Lobelia spp. (2) | Ecuador, Hawaii, Namibia |
| Logwood (1) | Colombia, Hawaii, India, Jamaica, New Caledonia, Philippines, Puerto Rico |
| Loricaria spp. (4) | Ecuador |
| Loxopterygium grisebachii | Argentina, Bolivia |
| Lysipomia spp. (15) | Ecuador |
| Machaerium spp. (2) | Brazil, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru |
| Macleania loeseneriana | Ecuador |
| Macrocnemum spp. (2) | Peru |
| Magnolia (24) | Belize, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, Myanmar, Panama, Taiwan |
| Maiden Fern (14) | Ecuador, Puerto Rico |
| Malmea cuspidata | Peru |
| Malouetia isthmica | Colombia |
| Mandevilla spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Manilkara Tree (11) | Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Indonesia, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Venezuela |
| Marcgraviastrum spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Marila spp. (2) | Peru, Suriname |
| Markea spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Mascagnia haenkeana | Ecuador |
| Maytenus spp. (3) | Ecuador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Thailand, Virgin Islands (British and US), Yemen |
| Meliosma spp. (3) | Ecuador, Panama, Peru |
| Melpomene brevipes | Ecuador |
| Meriania spp. (18) | Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama |
| Metastelma spp. (1) | British Virgin Islands, Ecuador |
| Metteniusa spp. (4) | Colombia |
| Mezilaurus spp. (2) | Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname |
| Miconia spp. (99) | Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Jamaica, Panama, Peru |
| Micranthocereus spp. (5) | Brazil |
| Milkwood (2) | Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cuba, Indian Ocean (Mauritius - Reunion Island), Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Puerto Rico |
| Milkwort (1) | Ecuador, Greece, Italy, United States (Florida), Yemen |
| Mimosa spp. (6) | Brazil, Ecuador, Peru |
| Monactis spp. (5) | Ecuador |
| Monnina spp. (7) | Ecuador |
| Mouriri spp. (3) | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Munnozia spp. (5) | Ecuador |
| Mutisia spp. (8) | Ecuador |
| Myrceugenia spp. (10) | Brazil, Chile |
| Myrcia spp. (7) | Brazil, Ecuador, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico |
| Myrcianthes spp. (4) | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru |
| Myrciaria spp. (3) | Brazil, Paraguay |
| Myrsine spp. (6) | Ecuador, French Polynesia, Hawaii, New Zealand, Peru, Pitcairn |
| Nasa spp. (16) | Ecuador |
| Nautilocalyx spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Nectandra spp. (33) | Antigua, Barbuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, West Indies |
| Neriacanthus harlingii | Ecuador |
| Nierembergia espinosae | Ecuador |
| Ocotea spp. (12) | Africa, Central America, Mexico, South America |
| Odontonema laxum | Ecuador |
| Oenocarpus circumtextus | Colombia |
| Oligactis spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Oreopanax spp. (15) | Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru |
| Orphanodendron bernalii | Colombia |
| Orthotrichum spp. (1) | Asia, Europe, South America |
| Otholobium holosericeum | Ecuador |
| Ouratea spp. (1) | Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Panama, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania |
| Palicourea spp. (25) | Ecuador, Jamaica, Peru |
| Panicum spp. (1) | Ecuador, Hawaii, Yemen |
| Pappobolus spp. (7) | Ecuador, Peru |
| Parathesis spp. (2) | Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama |
| Paspalum spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Passion Flower (22) | Ecuador |
| Pearcea spp. (8) | Ecuador |
| Pentacalia spp. (22) | Ecuador |
| Pepinia spp. (6) | Ecuador |
| Pepper Vine (56) | Ecuador, Indian Ocean (Seychelles) |
| Persea spp. (7) | Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Suriname |
| Phaedranassa spp. (6) | Ecuador |
| Pharus ecuadoricus | Ecuador |
| Phaseolus spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Philodendron spp. (10) | Ecuador |
| Phinaea ecuadorana | Ecuador |
| Phyllostylon orthopterum | Bolivia |
| Pilea spp. (9) | Ecuador, Mauritius |
| Pilosocereus spp. (8) | Brazil, Cuba, Florida |
| Pitcairnia spp. (22) | Ecuador |
| Pithecellobium spp. (2) | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Paraguay |
| Plagiocheilus peduncularis | Ecuador |
| Platymiscium spp. (1) | Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru |
| Pocketbook Flower (25) | Ecuador |
| Podocarpus spp. (5) | Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America, North America, Oceanic, South America |
| Polystichum bonapartii | Ecuador |
| Pradosia spp. (7) | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador |
| Prickly Pear (6) | California, Ecuador, Mexico |
| Psychotria spp. (7) | Cameroon, Cuba, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Hawaii, India, Jamaica, Kenya, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Peru, Sao Tome and Principe, Sri Lanka, Tanzania |
| Puya spp. (10) | Ecuador |
| Quararibea spp. (3) | Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Venezuela |
| Quillwort (1) | China, Ecuador, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Taiwan |
| Radiator Plant (45) | Cameroon, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico |
| Reldia spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Ribes spp. (2) | Ecuador, Italy, Uzbekistan |
| Rinorea spp. (15) | Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Mexico, Panama, Sao Tome and Principe, Venezuela |
| Romeroa verticillata | Colombia |
| Rondeletia spp. (1) | Jamaica, Mexico, Peru |
| Rosewood (2) | Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam |
| Rubus spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Rushfoil (11) | Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania, Vietnam, Yemen |
| Sandwort (1) | California, Ecuador, Kentucky, Spain, Tennessee |
| Sapium spp. (1) | Argentina, Bolivia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines, Tanzania |
| Schlumbergera opuntioides | Brazil |
| Sclerolobium spp. (3) | Brazil |
| Scutellaria spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Shorea spp. (1) | Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam |
| Siphocampylus spp. (11) | Ecuador |
| Siphoneugenia spp. (3) | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil |
| Sloanea spp. (2) | Honduras, New Caledonia, Suriname |
| Solanum spp. (21) | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Hawaii, Panama, Puerto Rico |
| Sophora spp. (3) | Chile, French Polynesia, India, Jamaica |
| Southern Beech (2) | Chile, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea |
| Spanish Moss (25) | Ecuador |
| St. John's-wort (6) | Ecuador, Ethiopia, Florida, Yemen |
| Stenopadus andicola | Ecuador |
| Styrax spp. (7) | Malaysia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Suriname, Texas, Vietnam |
| Swartzia spp. (7) | Angola, Cameroon, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Panama, Republic of Congo, Suriname |
| Syagrus spp. (3) | Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname |
| Symplocos spp. (17) | China, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Sri Lanka, Taiwan |
| Tacinga spp. (2) | Brazil |
| Talauma spp. (2) | Ecuador |
| Ternstroemia spp. (1) | Cameroon, Ecuador, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malawi, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Tanzania |
| Topobea spp. (9) | Ecuador, Peru |
| Trichilia spp. (21) | Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Peru, Puerto Rico, Tanzania, Venezuela |
| Trigynaea triplinervis | Ecuador |
| Triolena spp. (3) | Ecuador |
| Turk's Cap Cactus | Brazil |
| Uebelmannia spp. (2) | Brazil |
| Umbrella Tree (3) | Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America, Indonesia, North America, Oceanic, South America |
| Uncinia spp. (4) | Ecuador |
| Vernonia spp. (1) | Cameroon, Ecuador, Indonesia, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Yemen |
| Violet (1) | Ecuador, Hawaii, Italy |
| Water-willow (2) | Cameroon, Ecuador, Florida, Nigeria, Yemen |
| Werneria graminifolia | Ecuador |
| Wood-sorrel (5) | Argentina, Ecuador |
| Wooly Jelly Palm | Brazil |
| Zamia spp. (20) | Central America, North America, South America |
| Zanthoxylum spp. (2) | Africa, Central America, Hawaii, North America, South America |
| Zapoteca aculeata | Ecuador |
| Zygophlebia eminens | Ecuador |
**What plants are listed here?:
The South America section of this site lists the folllowing plants appearing on select endangered species lists:- Plants that dwell in or migrate to any part of the South American continent and nearby islands.
- Plants dwelling in the Amazon Basin.
Disclaimer:
This list combines species from several endangered species lists. Using the total
count of species found on this site as an official count of endangered species of the world is not recommended. For more
information on what creatures are listed on this site, please visit our About EEC page.
