Flora of Venezuelan Antilles

Inga macrantha is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Venezuela.

Cyperus caesius is a species of sedge that is endemic to parts of northern South America. The species was first formally described by the botanist Johann Otto Boeckeler in 1870.

Pilea spruceana (silver tree) is a species of evergreen plant in the family Urticaceae, which grows up to 1 foot in height, with a spread of up to 1.5 feet.

Aechmea fendleri is a species of bromeliad in the genus Aechmea. This species is native to Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.

Glomeropitcairnia erectiflora is a plant species in the genus Glomeropitcairnia in the family Bromeliaceae. This epiphytic tank bromeliad species is native to Venezuela and to the island of Trinidad, occurring in montane and elfin cloud forests. It is used by tree frog Phytotriades auratus as a refuge and nesting site. The inflorescence can rise 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) above the rosette of waxy, broad linear leaves.

Tillandsia myriantha is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Colombia and Venezuela.

Cyperus bonariensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to Venezuela and two groups of offshore Caribbean islands, the Netherlands Antilles and the Venezuelan Antilles. It was first described by Gordon C. Tucker in 2013.

Pilosocereus moritzianus is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to Trinidad and Tobago and the Venezuelan Antilles in the Caribbean and to Venezuela in northern South America. It was first described in 1837 as Cereus moritzianus. It was subsequently placed in the genus Cephalocereus before being moved to Pilosocereus in 1957. It has also been treated as a subspecies of Pilosocereus lanuginosus, P. lanuginosus subsp. moritzianus.

Muellera lutea is a species of flowering plant in the pea family (Fabaceae). It is a tree native to Isla de Margarita in the Venezuelan Antilles and the Araya Peninsula of northwestern Venezuela. It grows in tropical dry scrub and forest from 50 to 400 meters elevation.

Cyathea obtusa is a species of fern in the family Cyatheaceae, native to Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela (including the Venezuelan Antilles), and the Windward Islands. It was first described by Domin in 1929.

Cereus lepidotus (syn. Piptanthocereus lepidotus) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cereus. This species is native to the seasonally dry area of Trinidad and Tobago and Colombia.

Plumeria pudica is a species of the genus Plumeria (Apocynaceae), native to Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. This profuse bloomer has leaves in the shape of a cobra's hood, and its flowers are white with a yellow center. There is a variegated leaved Plumeria pudica commonly called Golden Arrow or Gilded Spoon, as well as a pink flowering hybrid produced in Thailand called Sri Supakorn or Pink pudica.

Glomeropitcarnia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae. The genus name is from the Latin “glomero” (to form into a ball) and the genus Pitcairnia. It has two known species, native to Venezuela, Trinidad and the Lesser Antilles.

Leuenbergeria guamacho, the guamacho, is a species of plant that belongs to the cactus family and is one of the few cacti with spines that bears a strong resemblance to deciduous trees.

Bromelia humilis, the dwarf bromelia, is a plant species in the genus Bromelia. This species is native to Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Netherlands Antilles.

Coccothrinax barbadensis (latanier, latanier balai) is a palm native to Venezuela, the Lesser Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago. Like other members of the genus Coccothrinax, C. barbadensis is a fan palm. The leaves are widely used to thatch roofs. The species is native to Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela (including the Venezuelan Antilles). Henderson and coauthors report that the species was probably present throughout the Lesser Antilles, but was extirpated on many of them. In 2005, George Proctor (in

Bromelia chrysantha is a plant species in the genus Bromelia. This species is native to Venezuela, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Hymenocallis caribaea (commonly known as the Caribbean spider-lily or variegated spider-lily) is a flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. The species was first described by Linnaeus and later assigned its current name by Herbert. It is native to the islands of the Caribbean and northern South America, including Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Cuba, the Virgin Islands, the Windward and Leeward Islands, and the Venezuelan Antilles. The Caribbean spider-lily is also widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in many tropical and subtropical regions. It has reportedly become naturalized in

Conocliniopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It contains a single species, Conocliniopsis grossedentata, which was referred to by its synonym Conocliniopsis prasiifolia until it was discovered to be conspecific with the type material of the earlier name in 2022.

Roystonea oleracea, sometimes known as the Caribbean royal palm, palmiste, imperial palm or cabbage palm, is a species of palm which is native to the Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and Trinidad and Tobago. It is also reportedly naturalized in Guyana and on the islands of Mauritius and Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Its specific epithet oleracea means "vegetable/herbal" in Latin and is a form of holeraceus (oleraceus). The plant's buds was eaten in the West Indies.

Malpighia coccigera is a species of flowering plant in the family Malpighiaceae, that is native to the Caribbean. It is commonly known as Singapore holly or dwarf holly due to the shape of its leaves, despite it not being a true holly (genus Ilex).

Anthurium crassinervium is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae, native to Venezuela and Colombia in South America, and some Caribbean islands (the Netherlands Antilles, the southwest Caribbean and the Venezuelan Antilles). It was first described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1791 as Pothos crassinervius and transferred to Anthurium in 1829 by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott.

Rinorea melanodonta is a species of tree native to countries such as Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad-Tobago, and Guyana. It occurs at an elevation range from 200 to 300 metres (660 to 980 ft). It is related to Rinorea brachythrix but is differentiated by the short filaments. This species can also grow up to 4 to 5 metres (13 to 16 ft) tall.

Calliandra cruegeri is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the family Fabaceae.

Vriesea scalaris is a plant species in the genus Vriesea. This species is native to Brazil and Venezuela.

Huntleya lucida is a species of orchid that occurs in northern Brazil (Roraima), Ecuador, Guyana, Honduras and Venezuela.

Cereus repandus (syn. Cereus peruvianus), the Peruvian apple cactus, is a large, erect, spiny columnar cactus found in South America. It is also known as giant club cactus, hedge cactus, cadushi (in Papiamento and Wayuunaiki), and kayush. Cereus repandus is grown mostly as an ornamental plant, but has some local culinary importance. The Wayuu from the La Guajira Peninsula of Colombia and Venezuela also use the inner cane-like wood of the plant in wattle and daub construction.

Opuntia caracassana is a species from the genus Opuntia. The species was originally described by Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck in 1850.

Mammillaria mammilllaris, common name woolly nipple cactus, is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is the type species of the genus Mammillaria. It has been described by Carolus Linnaeus as Cactus mammillaris in 1753. The specific epithet mammillaris comes from the Latin mammilla, meaning nipple, with reference to the characteristic tubercles.

Tillandsia tovarensis is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and Ecuador.