Harold Norman Moldenke

Pleuropterus multiflorus (syns. Fallopia multiflora, Polygonum multiflorum, and Reynoutria multiflora) is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae native to central and southern China, Hainan, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Thailand. It is known by the English common names tuber fleeceflower and Chinese (climbing) knotweed. It is known as he shou wu (何首烏) in China and East Asia. Another name for the species is fo-ti, which is a misnomer. It can be difficult to prevent the spread of this vine and to remove it once established. The leaves are thin and fragile but the stems,

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Verbena californica is a rare species of verbena known by the common names California vervain and Red Hills vervain. This flower is endemic to Tuolumne County, California, where it is known from ten or eleven occurrences in the Red Hills, a section of the Sierra Nevada foothills near Chinese Camp. It grows in moist woodland habitat, often on serpentine soils. It is a federally listed threatened species of the United States. This is a green herb about half a meter in height with a fuzzy stem and long, grasslike leaves. It bears spike inflorescences of tiny purple flowers. This rare plant is

Avicennia schaueriana is a species of tropical mangrove in the family Acanthaceae. It grows in coastal and estuarine locations along the Atlantic coast of northeastern South America, from Venezuela and the Leeward Islands through Trinidad and Tobago, the Windward Islands, the Guianas, and Brazil to Uruguay. Avicennia schaueriana is self-compatible and insect-pollinated (bees and wasps, butterflies and moths, and flies).

Erythrina eggersii is a vine or tree in the family Fabaceae which is commonly known as cock's-spur, espuelo de gallo, or pinon espinoso. It is native to Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands (Jost Van Dyke) and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where it is threatened by the act of habitat loss.

Telitoxicum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae. Its native range is Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, North Region, Brazil, Northeast Region, Brazil, Peru, Southeast Region, Brazil, Suriname, and Venezuela. Species: Telitoxicum duckei (Diels) Moldenke Telitoxicum glaziovii Moldenke Telitoxicum inopinatum Moldenke Telitoxicum krukovii Moldenke Telitoxicum minutiflorum (Diels) Moldenke Telitoxicum negroense (Krukoff & Moldenke) Krukoff Telitoxicum peruvianum Moldenke Telitoxicum rodriguesii Krukoff

Mucuna holtonii is a species of plant in the bean family, which is pollinated by bats. Bats are able to detect if the flowers have nectar using echolocation. After an initial bat visit during which nectar is removed, the petals are arranged in a different manner (altering the shape of the flower). As a result, the unique "echo fingerprint" of petal arrangement informs the bat whether nectar is present or absent. It is thought that the plant evolved acoustically conspicuous structures to make them easier to detect by glossophagine bats.

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Traubia is a genus of Chilean plants in the Amaryllis family. Only one species is recognized, Traubia modesta, native to northern and central Chile.

Recordia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Verbenaceae. It is native to Bolivia and southern Brazil. The genus name of Recordia is in honour of Samuel J. Record (1881–1945), an American botanist who played a prominent role in the study of trees and wood. It was first described and published in Phytologia Vol.1 on page 99 in 1934. Known species, according to Kew: Recordia boliviana Moldenke Recordia reitzii (Moldenke) Thode & O'Leary

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Lantana pastazensis is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family, Verbenaceae, that is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is lowland tropical moist forests. It is mildly toxic due to the presence of pentacyclic terpenoids.

Junellia is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena and vervain family Verbenaceae, native to the Andes, Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands.

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Aegiphila sordida is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is endemic to Peru.

Aegiphila skutchii is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.

Aegiphila panamensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to the Americas, its distribution extending from Mexico to Colombia.

Aegiphila cordifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is endemic to Peru, where it occurs in the Amazon rainforest. It is sometimes found in disturbed habitat.

Vitex megapotamica is a hardwood fruit tree found in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. In Brazil it is commonly called tarumã. The tarumã grows to be up to ten metres tall. Its bark is coloured dark grey; its compound leaves have a long petiole and five elliptic leaflets. The small, abundant flowers developed into fleshy stone fruit. The fruits are eaten by a number of species, and serve also as fishing bait. Tarumã grows from the Southeast Region of Brazil to the South Region, and on through Uruguay and Paraguay to Argentina. In Brazil, its common names include azeitona do

Verbena demissa is a species of plant in the family Verbenaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Rehdera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Verbenaceae. Its native range is (south-eastern) Mexico to Central America, and it is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The genus name of Rehdera is in honour of Alfred Rehder (1863–1949), a German-American botanical taxonomist and dendrologist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. It was first described and published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Vol.39 on page 48 in 1935.

Priva socotrana is a species of plant in the family Verbenaceae. It is a subshrub endemic to the islands of Socotra and Samhah in Yemen's Socotra Archipelago. It is common and widespread in dry shrublands and woodlands on limestone escarpments and plateaus from 50 to 950 metres elevation.

Otoba novogranatensis is a species of tree distributed from S. Nicaragua to Ecuador found in lowland to submontane forests up to 1300 m asl. It can reach heights of up to 30 m tall with a bole of 45 cm in diameter and has low buttresses.

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Kalaharia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1891. It contains only one known species, Kalaharia uncinata. It is native to central and southern Africa from Cape Province of South Africa north to Gabon and Tanzania.

Aegiphila rimbachii is a species of tree in the family Lamiaceae. It is endemic to Bolívar Province in Ecuador, where it grows in the cloud forests of the Andes.

Aegiphila purpurascens is a species of tree in the family Lamiaceae. It is endemic to Azuay Province in Ecuador, where only three populations are known. It grows in the cloud forests of the Andes at 2000 to 3000 meters in elevation.