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Ochagavia litoralis is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae. It is endemic to Chile. Its common names include calilla and chupón. This species has a stem that may exceed 20 centimeters in length and produces offsets that can form colonies. The narrow, pointed leaves are 17 to 38 centimeters long. They are leathery in texture and whitish and scaly on the undersides. The inflorescence is spherical or oval and contains up to 35 flowers. It is up to about 8 centimeters long and wide and is borne on a stalk up to 12 centimeters long. The flowers are a few centimeters long and

Melinis repens is a species of grass known by the common names rose Natal grass, Natal red top, or simply Natal grass. It is native to southern Africa and an introduced species, often considered a noxious weed, on other continents such as North America and Australia. It is an annual or perennial grass, growing up to a meter tall. Its growth rate is dependent on temperature. The inflorescence is an open array of branches bearing spikelets densely coated in silky white or pink. In Chishona, its name is bhurakwacha. The Mursi people of Ethiopia call this grass imai. It grows along the banks of

Melinis nerviglumis is a species of grass known by the common names mountain red top or bristle-leaved red top. The Latin name refers to the veined glume. It is native from tropical to southern Africa, the western Indian Ocean islands, and Indochina. It is cultivated as a garden ornamental due to its colourful purple flowers. The flowers are produced in summer and fade to white as they mature. By this time the seeds can be harvested for new plantings.

Froesia gereauana is a plant species endemic to the State of Amazonas in southern Venezuela. Froesia gereauana is an unbranched tree up to 12 m tall. Leaves are crowded at the top of the trunk. Petiole is over 30 cm long. Leaves pinnately compound with approximately 27 leaflets, each one oblong to ovate, thick and leathery, up to 31 cm long. Inflorescence is at the top of the trunk, with flowers up to 10 mm long. Fruit is a dry, fibrous follicle, spherical to pear-shaped, about 2 cm in diameter.

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Ochagavia andina is a plant species in the genus Ochagavia. This species is endemic to Chile.

Melinis reynaudioides is a species of grass endemic to Annobón Island in Equatorial Guinea.

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Hoplocryptanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. It was formerly treated as the subgenus Hoplocryptanthus of the genus Cryptanthus. Its native range is Southeastern Brazil. Species: Hoplocryptanthus caracensis (Leme & E.Gross) Leme, S.Heller & Zizka, syn. Cryptanthus caracensis Hoplocryptanthus ferrarius (Leme & C.C.Paula) Leme, S.Heller & Zizka, syn. Cryptanthus ferrarius Hoplocryptanthus glaziovii (Mez) Leme, S.Heller & Zizka, syn. Cryptanthus glaziovii Hoplocryptanthus knegtianus O.B.C.Ribeiro & Leme Hoplocryptanthus lavrasensis (Leme) Leme, S.Heller &

Forzzaea is a genus of eu-bromelioids in the family Bromeliaceae, native to the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil, and described in 2017.

Rokautskyia microglazioui is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil (the state of Espírito Santo). It was first described in 1998 as Cryptanthus microglazioui. It is found in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest ecoregion.

Rokautskyia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, native to eastern Brazil. The genus was first established in 2017, and is placed in subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Hylaeaicum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, native to tropical northern South America. The taxon was first described by Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule in 1935 as a subgenus of "Aregelia" (an illegitimate genus name). It was later treated as a subgenus of Neoregelia, before being raised to a full genus in 2021, a status accepted by both Plants of the World Online and the Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads.

Orthocryptanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the bromeliad family. It includes three species native to Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil. Orthocryptanthus arcanus (Leme) Leme, Zizka & Paule Orthocryptanthus santaritensis (Leme, S.Heller & Zizka) Leme, Zizka & Paule Orthocryptanthus vasconcelosianus (Leme) Leme, Zizka & Paule

Krenakanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the bromeliad family. It includes two species native to Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil. Krenakanthus ribeiroanus Leme, Gonella & D.R.Couto Krenakanthus roseolilacinus (Leme) Leme, Zizka & Paule

Hylaeaicum wurdackii is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to northern Peru. It was first described by Lyman Bradford Smith in 1963 as Neoregelia wurdackii.

Hylaeaicum pendulum is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, native to Ecuador and northern Peru. It was first described by Lyman Bradford Smith in 1963 as Neoregelia pendula.

Hoplocryptanthus glaziovii is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil (the state of Minas Gerais). It was first described by Carl Christian Mez in 1891 as Cryptanthus glaziovii. It is found in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest ecoregion.

Siqueiranthus is a genus of bromeliads. It includes a single species, Siqueiranthus cinereus, a perennial native to Alagoas state in northeastern Brazil. The species was first described as Cryptanthus cinereus by Débora Maria Cavalcanti Ferreira and Rafael Batista Louzada in 2020. In 2022 Elton Martinez Carvalho Leme et al. placed the species in the new monotypic genus Siqueiranthus as Siqueiranthus cinereus.