Plants of Central and South America List
This is a list I made up over the last couple months that I thought would be useful to everyone on the forums. It took me a lot of long nights to finish it but I think it will help when selecting plants for the dart terrarium. I will have a PDF downloadable on my site soon that is better quality and has better format. Enjoy! :-)
Adiantum
macrophyllum - Central and South America, Panama, Colombia
peruvianum - Ecuador. Peru, Bolivia
polyplyllum - Nicaragua to Venezuela
Alsobia
dianthiflora - Costa Rica, Central America
punctata - Central America
Anthurium
affin besseae - Ecuador
amnicola - Panama
andreanum - Northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia
angustinum - Brazil
angustispadix - Costa Rica
argyrostachyum - Northwestern Ecuador and Colombia
arisaemoides - Ecuador, Peru
austin smithii - Costa Rica
bakeri - Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
besseae - Bolivia
bogotense - Colombia
brenesii - Costa Rica
breviscapum - Ecuador, Peru
brownii - Costa Rica to Colombia
caucanum - Colombia
clarinervium - Southern Mexico
clavigerum - Costa Rica to Bolivia, east to Brazil and Guianas
clidemiodes - Costa Rica, Panama
colonicum - Panama (Colon province)
corallinum - Peru
corrugatum - Ecuador
croatii - Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
crystallinum - Colombia, Panama
cuspidatum - Costa Rica to Colombia
cutucuensis - Ecuador (Cordillo de Cutucu mountains)
digitatum - Peru, FG, Venezuela
draconopterum - Ecuador (Alto Tambo in Esmeraldas)
dressleri - Colon, Panama
dwyeri - Panama, Colombia
effusilobum - Ecuador, Peru
eminens - Colombia to Bolivia, east to Brazil, Guianas
ernestii - Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Peru
falcatum - Ecuador, Colombia
fasciale - Southern Ecuador
fendleri - Venezuela (Colonia Tovar)
flavolineatum - Ecuador
fragrantissimum - Panama
friedrichsthalii - Guatemala to Colombia
gladiifolium - Brazil
gracile - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
hebatatum - Central Panama
hookerii - Caribbean into Venezuela
impolitum - Panama
kunthii - Costa Rica (Alajuela, Puntarenas, San Jose), Panama (inc. bocas del Toro,
Darien, San Blas)
lancea - Ecuador
lancifolium - Costa Rica
lentii - Costa Rica (Col Tapanti and Talamanca Mountains), Panama (Chiriqui and Cerro
Jefe), Colombia
lingua - Ecuador
llewelynii - Peru (Tarapoto, San Martin)
longegeniculatum - Ecuador
longipeltatum - Mexico (Northern Oaxaca and southern Veracruz)
lucens - Southern Mexico to Honduras
madisonianum - Panama
magnificum - Colombia, Honduras
marmoratum - Ecuador
microphyllum - Brazil
moonenii - French Guiana
moronense - Ecuador, Peru
nanum - Colombia
nervatum - Western Panama
ovatifolium - Ecuador
oxycarpum - Colombia to Amazonian Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
oxyphyllum - Pacific slopes of Ecuador
pallidiflorum - Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Panama
pedatoradiatum - Mexico
pendens - Panama (Colon and Darien provinces)
pendulifolium - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
penningtonii - Ecuador, Peru
pentaphyllum - Mexico to Panama, Costa Rica (Alajuela and Guanacaste/Heredia)
pittieri - Costa Rica, Panama
plowmanii - Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia
podophyllum - Veracruz, Mexico
polyschistum - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
Flora of Central and South America
pseudospectabile - Panama (Bocas del Toro and Chiriqui provinces)
radicans - Ecuador, southeastern Brazil
reflexinervium - Peru (Tingo Maria in Huanuco)
regale - Colombia
rugulosum - Ecuador
salvinii - Mexico through Colombia
scandens - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
scandens var. latifolium - Central and South America
scherzerianum - Costa Rica
schlechtendalii - Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua
scolopendrinum - Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru
spathulatum - Ecuador
spectabile - Costa Rica
superbum - Ecuador, Peru
supraglandulum - Panama (Cerro Jefe)
tilaranese - Tilaran in Costa Rica
trilobum - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
triphyllum - Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
trisectum - Costa Rica (La Selva and Heredia), Panama (Veraquas province), Ecuador
trinerve - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia to Brazil
truncicola - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
tysonii - Panama (Cerro Jefe)
variegatum - Ecuador
veitchii - Colombia
verapazense - Mexico to Belize
vittarifolium - Central America
watermaliensi - Costa Rica, Panama
warocqueanum - Colombia
willdenowii - Lesser Antilles
willdenowii var. brevifolium - Brazil
willifordii - Peru (Loreto Dept)
Begonia
convolvulacea - Panama
crispula - Brazil
fagifollia - S. America
glabra - Panama, Costa Rica
imperialis - Mexico
listada - Brazil
maurandiae - Ecuador, Western Brazil
mazae - Mexico
paleata - Brazil
pulchella - Brazil
Bertolonia
carmoi - Brazil
maculata - N. South America
marmorata - Ecuador
Campyloneurum-
angustifolium var. ensifolium - Ecuador
phyllitidis - Caribbean, Belize through South America
Ceratostema
rauhii - Peru
Caladium
bicolor - Costa Rica
humboldtii - Costa Rica
Calathea
allouia - Peru
altissima - Brazil
argyrophylla - Brazil
brasiliensis - Brazil
capitata - Peru, Brazil
colorata - Brazil
fatimae - Brazil
foliosa - Costa Rica
gloriana - Costa Rica
hammelii - Costa Rica
lanata - Brazil, Peru
lancefolia - Brazil
leuconeura - Ecuador
lutea - Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador
marantifolia - Costa Rica
micans - Costa Rica
musaica - Brazil
ovata - Brazil, Suriname, Venezuela
pachystachya - Ecuador
robinae - Costa Rico
rotundifolia - Brazil
standleyi - Western Brazil
undulata - Ecuador
venusta - Costa Rica
vitatta - Venezuela, FG, Guyana, Suriname
warsewicsii - Costa Rica
zebrine - Brazil
Campyloneurum
angustifolium - Central and South America
multipunctatum - Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador
phyllitidis - Throughout Central and South America
Chamaeranthemum
venosum - Brazil, Ecuador
amazonica - Brazil
rotundifolia - Peru
sicyoides - Brazil
Codonanthe
carnosa - Brazil
devosiana - Brazil
elegans - Belize
gracilis - Northern South America
luteola - Panama
serrulata - Brazil
uleana - Panama to Peru, Brazil
venosa - Brazil
Columnea
allenii - Panama
arguta - Panama (Bocas del Toro, Colon, San Blas)
boliviana - Bolivia
colombiana - Ecuador
crassicaulis - Ecuador
crassifolia - Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
cruenta - Ecuador
dodsonii - Ecuador
erythrophaea - Mexico
ericae - Ecuador
filifera - Ecuador
gloriosa - Costa Rica
harrissii - Central America
hirta - Panama
incredibilis - Colombia
isernii - Ecuador, Peru
katzensteiniae - Ecuador
linearis - Honduras
microphylla - Costa Rica
minor - Colombia, Ecuador
mira - Panama
orientandina - Ecuador, Peru
ornata - Costa Rica
polyantha - Brazil
pulchra - Panama
purpusii - Mexico
purpureovittata - Peru
raymondii - Costa Rica
rubriacuta - Colombia, Ecuador
sanguinea - Ecuador, FG, Suriname, Venezuela
scandens - Ecuador, Venezuela
schiedeana - Mexico
spathulata - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
strigosa - Colombia, Ecuador
sulfurea - Guatemala, Belize
verecunda - Costa Rica
villosissima - Ecuador, Peru
Corytoplectus
colombianus - Colombia
cutucuensis - Ecuador
cirkbridei - Colombia
Costus
cuspidatus - Brazil
malortieanus - Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua
sanguineus - Mexico to Costa Rica
stenophyllus - Costa Rica, Honduras
Cyclanthus
bipartitus - Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama
Dorstenia
contrajerva - Widespread throughout Central and South America
Drosera
chrysolepis - Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais)
graminifolia - Brazil
intermedia - Northern South America
montana - Brazil
roraimae - Venezuela (Mt. Roraima and surrounding Tepuis), Guyana, Brazil
Drymonia
chiribogana - Ecuador
coccinea - Brazil, Ecuador
coriacea - Costa Rica
cuyabonensis-
ecuadorensis - Ecuador
fimbriata - Costa Rica
killipii - Ecuador, Colombia
microphylla - Panama
semicordata - Brazil, Peru
serrulata - Brazil
turrialvae - Costa Rica
variegatea - Ecuador, Panama
Elaphoglossum
backhouseanum - Colombia, Panama, CR, Nicaragua
crinitum - Costa Rica, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia
decoratum - Costa Rica to Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
herminieri - Belize, Caribbean, CR, FG, Ecuador, Guatemala, Venezuela, Guyana
luridum - Venezuela, Guyana
metallicum - Peru
nigrescens - Brazil
peltata - Throughout Caribbean, Central and South America
Episcia
cordata - Venezuela
cupreata - Colombia, possibly Ecuador
fimbriata - Peru, Venezuela
kohlerioides - Brazil
lilacina - Nicaragua to Panama
aurea - Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Caribbean, Guatemala
jimenezii - Costa Rica
lundellii - Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
sp. Panama - Panama, similar/identical species found to Peru
Fittonia
argyroneura - Peru
verschaffeltii - Ecuador, Peru
Gasteranthus
acropodus - Panama
atratus - Ecuador
quitensis - Ecuador
pansamalanus - Ecuador
Geogenanthus
ciliates - Ecuador, Peru
poeppigii - Brazil
speciosum - Brazil, Ecuador
undatus - Ecuador, Peru
Gloxinella
erinoides - Venezuela
lindeniana - Colombia
sylvatica - Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru
Heliamphora
chimantensis - Venezuela (Bolivar, Chimanta Tepui)
elongata - Venezuela (Ilu and Tramen Tepuis)
folliculate - Venezuela (Aparaman, Murosipan, Terke-Yuren, and Kamarkaiwaran
heterodoxa - Venezuela (Ptari Tepui and Gran Sabana)
hispida - Venezuela (Cerro Neblina)
ionasii - Venezuela (Tramen Tepui)
minor - Venezuela (Auyan Tepui)
neblinae - Venezuela (Cerro Neblina)
nutans - Venezuela (Roraima and Tramen Tepuis)
pulchella - Venezuela (Chimanta Tepui group)
tatei - Venezuela (Cerro Huachamacare)
Hoffmannia
bullata - Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama
ghiesbreghtii - Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama
refulgens – Mexico, Honduras
Homalomena
crinipes - Ecuador
peltata - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
wendlandii - Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador
Huperzia
cuernavacensis - El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico
Kohleria
amabilis - Costa Rica, Ecuador
bogotensis - Colombia
chiapensis - Mexico
hirsurta - Ecuador
hondensis - Colombia
hypertrichosa - Ecuador
magnifica - Colombia
peruviana - Peru
saxicola - Mexico
spicata - Costa Rica, Ecuador
warscewiczii - Costa Rica
Macleania
glabra - Costa Rica
insignis - Mexico to Costa Rica
pentaptera - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Maranta
leuconeura - Ecuador
repens - Central and South America
Marcgravia
affinis - Peru
brownii - Costa Rica, Ecuador
coriacea - Brazil
macrophylla - Ecuador, Peru
nepenthoides - Costa Rica
nervosa - Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador
panamensis - Panama
parviflora - Peru, Ecuador
pittieri - Costa Rica
purpurea - Peru
rectiflora - Caribbean, Panama, Guatemala, Colombia
schippii - Panama, Ecuador, Belize
waferi - Costa Rica
williamsii - Ecuador
Microgramma
acatellela - Brazil
brunei - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
crispata - Brazil
geminata - Brazil
heterophylla - Caribbean
lycopodioides - Mexico to South America, Brazil, FG,
megalophylla - Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana
nitida - Central and South America
percussa - Brazil
persicariifolia - Brazil, Trinidad, Parguay
piloselloides - Central and South America
reptans - Brazil, FG, Tobago, Trinidad, South America
squamulosa - Brazil
thurnii - Brazil
vaccinifolia - Brazil, Peru, Trinidad
Mitraria
coccinea - Mexico
Monolena
primuliflora - Brazil, CR, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Colombia
Monstera
adansonii - Widespread through Caribbean, Central and South America
deliciosa - Central and South America
dubia - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru
obliqua - Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Trinidad
siltepecana - Mexico, probably south to Colombia
subpinnata - Peru
Napeanthus
costaricensis - Costa Rica
Nautilocalyx
bullatus - Peru
coccineau - Guyana
cordatus - Guyana, Venezuela
ecuadoranus - Ecuador
glandulifer - Ecuador
lynchii - Ecuador, Peru
pemphidius - Venezuela
pictus - Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname
porphyrotrichus - Guyana, Venezuela
Nematanthus
australis - Brazil
brasiliensis - Brazil
corticola - Brazil
crassifolius - Brazil
fissus - Brazil
fluminensis - Brazil
fornix - Brazil
fritschii - Brazil
hirtellus - Brazil
lanceolatus - Brazil
maculates - Brazil
monanthos - Brazil
serpens - Brazil
tessmannii - Brazil
villosus - Brazil
Nephrolepis
exalta - Brazil
pendula - Caribbean, Central and South America
Niphaea
oblonga - Guatemala
Paradrymonia
alata - Costa Rica
binata - Ecuador
campostyla – Ecuador, Costa Rica
ciliosa - Brazil
costaricana - Costa Rica
decurrens - Costa Rica
densa - French Guiana
fuquaiana - Ecuador
hypocyrta - Ecuador
luteynii - Colombia
merumeana - Guyana
pedunculata - Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama
Pearcea
hypcyrtiflora - Ecuador
spruceii - Ecuador
Peperomia
abbreviatipes - Colombia
alata - Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, CR,
albert-smithii - Ecuador
albovittata - Ecuador
angulata - Venezuela
angustata - Mexico
antoniana - Ecuador
argyreia - Northern South America
bicolor - Ecuador
blanda - Central and South America
caespitosa - Ecuador
caliginigaudens - Colombia
campylotropa - Guatemala, Mexico
caperata - Ecuador
clusiifolia - Caribbean, Venezuela
columnella - Peruvian Andes
costaricensis - Costa Rica
crassicaulis - Central America
crispa - Ecuador
cuchumatanica - Guatemala
cyclaminoides - Bolivia
dahlstedtii - Brazil
dendrophila - Ecuador
eburnea - Ecuador
elongate - Brazil
ferreyrae - Peru
fraseri - Ecuador
futokadsura - Ecuador
galioides - Central America and northern South America
glabella - Central America and northern South America
graveolens - Ecuador
hernandifolia - Ecuador
hirta - Caribbean, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
hoffmannii - Central America and northern South America
incana - Brazil
jamesoniana - Ecuador inc. Tiputini
lanceolata - Mexico
lehmannii - Ecuador
maculosa - Ecuador
macrostachya - Brazil
maypurensis - Venezuela
meridana - Venezuela
metallica 'Columbiana' - Columbia
montium - Ecuador
moralesii - Guatemala
nitida - Brazil
obtusifolia - Central and South America, Caribbean
olens - Mexico
paradoxa - Ecuador
pecuniifolia - Guatemala, Mexico
pellucida - Central and South America, Caribbean
peltoidea - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
pereskiifolia - Colombia, CR, Belize, Panama, Venezuela
peruviana - Peru, northern South America
prostrata - Ecuador, Peru
puteolata - Peru
quadrangularis - Brazil, Caribbean, Colombia, Guyana, Panama, Suriname
reptilis - Colombia
resedaeflora - Peru, Chile
rotundata var. anomala - Ecuador
rotundifolia - Costa Rica to Colombia, Caribbean
rugosa - Ecuador
rupicola - Ecuador
sachatzinzumba - Ecuador
sandersii - Honduras
tenuimarginata - Colombia
translucens - Brazil
tricolor - Peru
trifolia - Caribbean, FG
trinervula - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
tristachya - Peru
turboensis - Colombia
velutina - Ecuador
verschanffeltii - Ecuador
Philodendron
andreanum - Colombia
angustialatum - Peru
angustisectum - Colombia
appendiculatum - Brazil
auriculatum - Costa Rica, Panama
barrosoanum - Ecuador, Venezuela
bipennifolium - Colombia
Burle Marx Fantasy - Brazil
camposportoanum - Bolivia, FG, Guyana, Suriname
crassinervium - Brazil
dolosum - Brazil
elegans - South America
erubescens - Colombia
giganteum - Trinidad
gigas - Panama (San Blas)
gloriosum - Colombia
glaucophyllum - N. South America
goeldii - Ecuador, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela
grazielae - Brazil, Peru
hastatum - Brazil
holtonianum - Colombia
imbe - Southeast Brazil, Bolivia
joepii - French Guiana
lehmanni - Colombia
longilaminatum - Brazil
mamei - Ecuador
melanochrysum - Colombia
mexicanum - Mexico
ornatum - Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela, Peru
pedatum / quericifolium - Colombia, Venezuela, northern South America
pinnatifidum - Venezuela, Brazil
sagittifolium - Central and South America
scandens - Widely distributed throughout Central and South America
schottianum - Costa Rica, Panama
selloum - Brazil, Paraguay
sodiroi - Colombia
spectabile - Colombia
squamiferum - Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Suriname, Peru
tenue - Honduras through Ecuador, east to Venezuela
tripartitum / fenzlii - Honduras to Ecuador, east to Venezuela
ugulatum - Brazil
verrucosum - Costa Rica to Ecuador, possibly Peru
Phlebodium
aureum - North, Central, and South America
decumanum - Central and South America
cadierei - Honduras, Mexico
glaucophylla - Colombia
grandifolia - Jamaica
involucrata - Caribbean, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela
microphylla - Central and South America
mollis - Venezuela
nummulariifolia - Central America to Peru
pubescens - Brazil
rhizobola - Brazil
spruceana - Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
Pinguicula
antarctica - Argentina, Chile
calyptrata - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
chilensis - Argentina, Chile
clivorum - Guatemala
elongata - Colombia, Venezuela
emarginata - Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras
involuta - Bolivia, Peru
jarmilae - Bolivia
lilacina - Guatemala, Belize
moranensis - Guatemala
orchidiodes - Guatemala
Platycerium
andinum - Peru, possibly Bolivia
Polypodium
attenuatum - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, FG, Guyana, Nicaragua, Suriname,
Venezuela
bombycinum - Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Venezuela, Panama, Peru
fallax - Central and South America
levigatum - Bolivia, Brazil, CR, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Venezuela
polypodioides - Central and South America
triseriale - Central and South America
makoyana - Brazil
Selaginella
apoda - North, Central, and South America
diffusa - Northern South America
emmeliana - Venezuela
erythropus - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia
flagellata - Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama
flabellata - Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela
imbricans - Venezuela
marginata - Brazil
martensii - Mexico to Panama
mollis - Mexico to Bolivia
pallescens - Venezuela, Suriname, widespread in northern South America
plana - SE Asia
posada - Central American
umbrosa - Ecuador north to Belize
Sinningia
aggregate - Paraguay, Brazil
allagophylla - Brazil
barbata - Brazil
canescens - Brazil
cardinalis - Brazil
cooperi - Brazil
elatior - Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela
incarnata - Brazil
macrophylla - Brazil
macropoda - Paraguay, Brazil
sellovii - Brazil, Bolivia
Spathiphyllum
cochlearispathum - Central America
floribundum - Columbia
friedrichsthalii - Mexico to Colombia
phryniifloium - Panama
Stenospermation
wallisii - Bolivia, Ecuador
Syngonium
erythrophyllum - Central America, Panama
sp. Llano-Carti Road - Panama
macrophyllum - Belize, CR, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Northern South America
podophyllum - Mexico through Central and South America
rayii - Costa Rica, Panama
ternatum - Guyana
wendlandii - Costa Rica
Tradescantia
navicularis - Central America
zebrina - Central America
Utricularia
alpina - Antilles, N. South America
asplundii - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
aureomaculata - Venezuela
buntinggiana - N. Venezuela
calycifida - South American
campbelliana - Venezuela, Guyana
choristotheca - Suriname
determannii - Suriname
endresii - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
guyanensis - Central and South America
geminiloba - Brazil
heterochroma - Venezuela
humboldtii - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
huntii - Brazil
jamesoniana - Central and South America
laxa - South America
longifolia - Brazil
meyeri - Brazil
mirabilis - Venezuela
nelumbifolia - Brazil
nephrophylla - Brazil
panamensis - Panama
praelonga - South America
praetermissa - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
quelcii - Venezuela, Guyana, N Brazil
schultesii - Colombia, Venezuela
steyermarkii - Venezuela
reniformis - Brazil
tricolor - South America
tridentata - South America
unifolia - Central and South America
Zamia
pseudoparasitica - Panama
Last edited by JoshH; 03-06-2009 at 01:51 AM.
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