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Worsleya is a genus of Brazilian plants in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae, cultivated as an ornamental because of its showy flowers. There is only one known species, Worsleya procera, native to eastern Brazil. [6] [7] [8] It is endemic to the marshy top of a mesa called "Mount Cuca" 30 miles (52 km) north of Rio de Janeiro. Here the sickle ...
The vegetation of the Pantanal, often referred to as the "Pantanal complex", is a mixture of plant communities typical of a variety of surrounding biome regions: these include moist tropical Amazonian rainforest plants, semiarid woodland plants typical of northeast Brazil, Brazilian cerrado savanna plants, and plants of the Chaco savannas of ...
List of plants of Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil; List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil; List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil; List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil; Official list of endangered flora of Brazil
The largest individual, near Nova Petrópolis, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil is 45 m or 147.7 ft in height with a diameter at breast height of 3.8 m or 12.5 ft girth. [3] The tree is fast growing; as much as 113 centimetres ( 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) a year (16 m or 52 ft in 14 years) at Puerto Piray , Misiones Province, Argentina.
Brazil – a region of Southern America in the WGSRPD. This category contains articles related to the Flora of Brazil.This category is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, which recommends that the flora of Brazil, a region within Southern America, be divided into the areas:
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The Brazilian marine biome is located on the "Marine Zone of Brazil", the continental shelf biotope, and presents several ecosystems. The Brazilian Coastal Zone has as distinctive aspects in its long extension through different biomes that arrive until the coast, the biome of the Amazônia , the biome of the Caatinga and bioma of the Atlantic ...
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