Does Ixora or Mesquite have more species?
Mesquite Mesquite is the common name for the genus "Prosopis", containing over 40 species of small leguminous trees. They are native to the southwestern United States and Mexico (even the creeping mesquite, which is invasive in southern California).
Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (List of species of the flora of Brazil, "The Brazilian List"), first produced in 2010 provides a list of species of plants found in Brazil. At that time it listed a total of 40,982 species, including 3,608 fungi, 3,495 algae, 1,521 bryophytes, 1,176 pteridophytes, 26 gymnosperms and 31,156 angiosperm species. The list is constantly updated with more than 400 taxonomists working on the online database.