Hiraea
Hiraea is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Hiraea comprises over 55 species of woody vines and shrubs found in diverse habitats, except very dry vegetation types, in the New World tropics and subtropics from western Mexico to Paraguay and adjacent Argentina and southeastern Brazil; it also occurs in the Lesser Antilles in Grenada and St. Lucia.
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Hiraea reclinata
speciesHiraea reclinata
Hiraea fagifolia
speciesHiraea fagifolia
Hiraea barclayana
speciesHiraea barclayana
Hiraea quapara
speciesHiraea quapara
Hiraea hatschbachii
speciesHiraea hatschbachii
Hiraea grandifolia
speciesHiraea grandifolia
Hiraea affinis
speciesHiraea affinis
Hiraea gaudichaudiana
speciesHiraea gaudichaudiana
Hiraea bullata
speciesHiraea bullata
Hiraea reitzii
speciesHiraea reitzii
Hiraea obovata
speciesHiraea obovata
Hiraea smilacina
speciesHiraea smilacina
Hiraea ternifolia
speciesHiraea ternifolia
Hiraea longipes
speciesHiraea longipes
Hiraea gracieana
speciesHiraea gracieana
Hiraea mcvaughii
speciesHiraea mcvaughii
Hiraea perplexa
speciesHiraea perplexa
Hiraea restingae
speciesHiraea restingae
Hiraea cuiabensis
speciesHiraea cuiabensis
Hiraea cuneata
speciesHiraea cuneata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 186548.