Flora of Guinea-Bissau

Aframomum rostratum is a species in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by Karl Moritz Schumann.

Adelostigma is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family described as a genus in 1864. It is native to Africa. Species Adelostigma athrixioides Steetz - Mozambique Adelostigma senegalensis Benth. - Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone

Dilophotriche is a genus of West African plants in the grass family. Species Dilophotriche occidentalis Jacq.-Fél. - Guinea Dilophotriche pobeguinii Jacq.-Fél. - Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Burkina Faso Dilophotriche tristachyoides (Trin.) Jacq.-Fél. - Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone

Heritiera utilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae (or Sterculiaceae). It is found in Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Anubias afzelii is a species belonging to the Aroid genus Anubias. It was first described scientifically by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott in 1857, based on material collected in Sierra Leone by Adam Afzelius, after whom the species was named. The genus Anubias was described simultaneously, with only A. afzellii belonging to it, which therefore is the type species of the genus. No other species currently placed in the genus Anubias was described earlier (in a different genus) and A. afzelii was therefore the first species of this genus known to science.

Bryaspis is a small genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes two species of herbaceous plants native to equatorial West Africa and Cameroon. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade of the Dalbergieae. Typical habitats are seasonally dry tropical grassland and open areas, often growing in wet, swampy, rocky and sandy soil. Plants can be weeds on cultivated land. Bryaspis humularioides Gledhill – Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia Bryaspis psittacorhyncha (Webb) Govaerts – Senegal to Guinea and

Millettia rhodantha is a plant species as described by Henri Ernest Baillon, found in Angola. A synonym to it is Millettia aromatica. Millettia rhodantha is included in the genus Millettia in the family Fabaceae. It grows to a height of 9 to 15 metres (30 to 49 ft). No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.

Tabernaemontana africana, commonly known as Samoan gardenia, is a species of plant in the oleander and frangipani family Apocynaceae native to tropical west Africa from Senegal to Ghana. It is an evergreen perennial shrub with a maximum height of 6 meters. The plant is used to produce latex, soap and dye.

Mischogyne elliotiana is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Zaire. Adolf Engler and Ludwig Diels, the German botanists who first formally described the species using the basionym Uvaria elliotiana, named it after George Scott-Elliot the botanist who collected the specimen they examined.

Cyperus remotispicatus is a species of sedge that is native to western parts of tropical Africa.

Ammannia gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Lythraceae. It is native to Africa. This aquatic plant has a branching, prostrate stem that roots at the nodes. The blunt-tipped, lance-shaped leaves are roughly a centimeter long. The small flowers have four purple petals and either 4 or 8 stamens. The flowers occur in small clusters.

Terminalia albida is a tree species in the genus Terminalia found in West Africa. It is found in the savannah part of Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve in Gambia. The aqueous extract of the bark is used in Gambia as an eye-lotion.

Polystachya puberula is a species of orchid native to western and west-central tropical Africa.

Milicia regia is a species of tropical tree in the family Moraceae. It grows in a belt on the west coast of Africa that extends from the Gambia to Ghana. It is threatened by habitat loss and logging.

Ixora laxiflora is a shrub or small tree with fragrant white colored flowers belonging to the family Rubiaceae.

Byrsanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Salicaceae. It contains a single species, Byrsanthus brownii. Its native range is Western Tropical Africa.

Aningeria pierrei is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is a tree native to the tropical forests of west and west-central Africa, from Guinea Bissau to the western Central African Republic. It is commonly known as aningré blanc, and is a source of the timber known as anigre. Aningeria pierrei is a large, deciduous tree, which grows up to 40 meters tall and with a trunk up to 150 cm in diameter. In Ghana it grows in semi-deciduous rain forest. In Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon it is most abundant in the transition between semi-deciduous forest and humid evergreen forest. Aningeria

Borassus akeassii is a species of palmyra palm which is native to west and central Africa. It occurs from Senegal to Congo-Kinshasa. It was first described in 2006, having previously been confused with Borassus aethiopum and Borassus flabellifer. It is used by local people for a variety of purposes, particularly sap extraction.

Utricularia rigida is a small to medium-sized perennial, rheophytic carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. rigida is endemic to western tropical Africa, where it can be found in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It grows as a rheophyte on inclined rock faces in swiftly running water at altitudes from near sea level to 1,250 m (4,101 ft). It was originally described and published by Ludwig Benjamin in 1847. It is distinguished from the other species in the section, U. tetraloba, by having only two lower lip corolla lobes as

Copaifera salikounda is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. It is threatened by habitat loss. Sometimes called Etimoe. Copafera is an alternative spelling that was adopted by American guitar manufacturer Taylor Guitars when the wood was introduced as a new material component on a series of the company's layered wood acoustic guitar models. The wood was chosen as an alternative to Indian rosewood after the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) adopted a regulation

Neocarya is a genus of plant in family Chrysobalanaceae described as a genus in 1976. It contains only one known species, Neocarya macrophylla, native to western and central Africa from Senegal to the Nigeria, and also in South Sudan. It is commonly known in English as the Gingerbread Plum, despite not being related to the true Plum (Prunus sp.).

Aristolochia goldieana is a species of plant in the family Aristolochiaceae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, the Gulf of Guinea Islands, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Isonema is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1810. It is native to Africa. Species Isonema buchholzii Engl. - Nigeria, Cameroon Isonema infundibuliflorum Stapf - Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire Isonema smeathmannii Roem. & Schult. - W Africa (Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone)

Anthocleista procera is a species of plant in the Gentianaceae family. It is a small tree that is found from West Tropical Africa.

Chlorophytum inornatum is a flowering plant species in the genus Chlorophytum. It is the type species of its genus. It is related to the commonly known houseplant Chlorophytum comosum also referred to as a "spider plant". 3-(4'-Methoxybenzyl)-7,8-methylenedioxy-chroman-4-one, a homoisoflavanone with antimycobacterial activity, can be isolated from C. inornatum.

Ficus lyrata, commonly known as the fiddle-leaf fig, banjo fig, fiddle-leaved fig tree, lyre leaf fig tree, or lyre-leaved fig tree, is a species of plant in the mulberry and fig family Moraceae. It is native to western Africa, but is cultivated around the world as an ornamental plant. It has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Saba senegalensis, known as weda in the Moore, liane in French, madd in Wolof and laare in Pulaar, is a fruit-producing plant of the Apocynaceae family, native to the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. It has several common names in various West African languages. The tree grows predominantly on riverbanks and in woodlands in Senegal, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, The Gambia, Burkina Faso, Somalia and Ivory Coast. It has been observed growing as vine up trees, as a small erect shrub, and oftentimes growing to the size of a large tree. ICRISAT has cited S. senegalensis as a useful food crop plant and

Macrotyloma geocarpum is also known as the ground bean, geocarpa groundnut, Hausa groundnut, or Kersting's groundnut. In French, it is often called la lentille de terre. M. geocarpum is an herbaceous annual plant and a crop of minor economic importance in sub-Saharan Africa, tolerant of drought, with a growth habit similar to that of the peanut. M. geocarpum is a pulse belonging to the legume family. It is primarily produced in western Africa, specifically in Benin and surrounding regions. It can provide nutrition, income, and the ability to alleviate hunger given the further production and

Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides, also called Senegal prickly-ash or artar root, is a plant species in the genus Zanthoxylum. The plant contains isomeric divanilloylquinic acids (3,4-O-divanilloylquinic acid or burkinabin A, 3,5-O-divanilloylquinic acid or burkinabin B and 4,5-O-divanilloylquinic acid or burkinabin C). Burkinabin C, a type of hydrolysable tannin can be found in the root bark of F. zanthoxyloides. It also contains fagaronine, a benzophenanthridine alkaloid. A study by Williams, Soelberg and Jäger (2016) showed than ethanolic extracts of Z. zanthoxyloides have in vitro anthelmintic

Ostryocarpus is genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. The name comes from ostryo- (Gk.: shell) and carpos (Gk.: fruit), referring to the shell-like pods. The first specimens were collected by Theodore Vogel in 1851 on the Niger Expedition to West Africa. It was described by Sir Joseph Hooker. It is related to the genus Lonchocarpus and is distinguished from it by its diadelphous stamens and shell-like pod.