Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...
area of
Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
flora
Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for f ...
. This article links the flora to its
geography
Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, a ...
with:
*a list of indigenous genera and species with common names and reference links
*a list of places you might see the plants around Brisbane, in parks and in the wild
*reference resources
Plants
The list is organised in alphabetic order by genera; then species scientific name and common names; then external links documenting that species.
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Acacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus n ...
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Acacia fimbriata
''Acacia fimbriata'', commonly known as the fringed wattle or Brisbane golden wattle, is a species of ''Acacia'' that is native along much of the east coast of Australia.
Description
The shrub has an erect or spreading habit and typically grow ...
'', Brisbane golden wattle
**'' Acacia leiocalyx'', black wattle
*'' Acmena'', lillypilly
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Acmena smithii
''Syzygium smithii'' (formerly ''Acmena smithii'') is a summer-flowering, winter-fruiting evergreen tree, belonging to the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It shares the common name "lilly pilly" with several other plants.It is planted as shrubs or hedg ...
Adiantum
''Adiantum'' (), the maidenhair fern, is a genus of about 250 species of ferns in the subfamily Vittarioideae of the family Pteridaceae, though some researchers place it in its own family, Adiantaceae. The genus name comes from Greek, meaning " ...
Adiantum hispidulum
''Adiantum hispidulum'', commonly known as rough maidenhair fern or five-fingered jack, is a small fern in the family Pteridaceae of widespread distribution. It is found in Africa, Australia, Polynesia, Malesia, New Zealand and other Pacific Is ...
Ailanthus triphysa
''Ailanthus triphysa'' (also ''Ailanthus malabarica'') is a medium to tall evergreen rainforest tree in Asia and Australia. The wood may be used for matchwood and plywood. The tree is known as ''halmaddi'' in India, where its resin, also called ' ...
Alchornea ilicifolia
''Alchornea ilicifolia'', commonly known as the native holly, is a bush of eastern Australia. It grows in or on the edges of the drier rainforests in coastal parts of New South Wales and Queensland.
Description
The native holly is a shrub or ...
Alectryon tomentosus
''Alectryon tomentosus'', commonly known as the hairy birds eye, red jacket or woolly rambutan, is a rainforest tree of the family Sapindaceae found in eastern Australia. The specific epithet ''tomentosus'' refers to the hairy leaves and hairy y ...
Alocasia brisbanensis
''Alocasia brisbanensis'', commonly known as cunjevoi or spoon lily, is a species of plant in the family Araceae native to rainforests of eastern Australia. The common name "cunjevoi" derives from the Bundjalung language of northern New South ...
Alpinia
''Alpinia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is named for Prospero Alpini, a 17th-century Italian botanist who specialized in exotic plants. Species are native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, w ...
Angophora leiocarpa
''Angophora leiocarpa'', commonly known as rusty gum, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has smooth bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of thre ...
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Aphananthe
''Aphananthe'' is a small genus of evergreen trees in the family Cannabaceae. Around six species are recognised, found in Madagascar, South-east Asia, Mexico and Australia. Leaves are alternate on the stem and toothed. Flowers are unisexual, ...
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Aphananthe philippinensis
''Aphananthe philippinensis'' is a common rainforest tree in the family Cannabaceae. In Australia it occurs from the Manning River in New South Wales to near Herberton, Queensland, Herberton in tropical Queensland. It was first described from t ...
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Allocasuarina
''Allocasuarina'' is a genus of trees in the flowering plant family Casuarinaceae. They are endemic to Australia, occurring primarily in the south. Like the closely related genus '' Casuarina'', they are commonly called sheoaks or she-oaks.
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Arytera
''Arytera'' is a genus of about twenty–eight species known to science, of trees and shrubs and constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally in New Guinea, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Australia, the Solomon Islands, ...
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Arytera divaricata
''Arytera divaricata'', known as the gap axe, coogara, coogera or rose tamarind is a forest tree of eastern Australia. An attractive plant with glossy pale and limp new leaves. It grows in fairly dry situations, often in littoral rainforests a ...
Austromyrtus
''Austromyrtus'' is a genus of shrubs in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. Three species are found along the east coast of Australia; in Queensland and in New South Wales and A. lotoides being endemic to New Caledonia. The fruits of ''A. dulcis'' hav ...
Austromyrtus acmenoides
''Gossia acmenoides'', known as the scrub ironwood, is a rainforest tree of the family Myrtaceae, native to eastern Australia. The usual habitat of this small tree is drier rainforest areas. The range of natural distribution is from Jamberoo in ...
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Austrosteenisia
''Austrosteenisia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for ...
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Austrosteenisia blackii
''Austrosteenisia blackii'' is a leguminous liana of the rainforests and dry rainforest
Dry or dryness most often refers to:
* Lack of rainfall, which may refer to
**Arid regions
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* Dry or dry area, relating to legal prohibition of ...
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Baloghia
''Baloghia'' is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1833. It is native to Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe I., Norfolk Island), New Caledonia, and Vanuatu. '' Cocconerion'' is a close r ...
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Baloghia inophylla
''Baloghia inophylla'' is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It is also known as the brush bloodwood, as it occurs in brushes, (a nineteenth-century term for rainforest), as well as bloodwood, as the clear sap is blood red. Other common nam ...
Brachychiton
''Brachychiton'' (kurrajong, bottletree) is a genus of 31 species of trees and large shrubs, native to Australia (the centre of diversity, with 30 species), and New Guinea (one species). Fossils from New South Wales and New Zealand are estimated ...
Brachychiton populneus
''Brachychiton populneus'', commonly known as the kurrajong, is a small to medium-sized tree found naturally in Australia in a diversity of habitats from wetter coastal districts to semi-arid interiors of Victoria, New South Wales and Queen ...
Callistemon salignus
''Melaleuca salicina'', commonly known as willow bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name ''Callistemon salignus'', a name that is accep ...
Capparis
''Capparis'' is a flowering plant genus, comprising around 250 species in the family Capparaceae which is included in the Brassicaceae in the unrevised APG II system. These plants are shrubs or lianas and are collectively known as caper shrubs o ...
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Capparis arborea
''Capparis arborea'' is a bush or small tree occurring in eastern Australia. The habitat is rainforest; usually riverine, littoral or the drier rainforests. Distributed from the Hunter River, New South Wales to Cape Melville in tropical Queens ...
Carissa ovata
''Carissa spinarum'', the conkerberry or bush plum, is a large shrub of the dogbane family (Apocynaceae), widely distributed in tropical regions of Africa, Southern Asia, Australia, and various islands of the Indian Ocean. It is most well known ...
'', current bush
***See https://web.archive.org/web/20060822095802/http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/old_site/database/Cari_ovata.htm
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Cassine australis
''Elaeodendron australe'', commonly known as red olive-berry, red-fruited olive plum, or blush boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with egg-shaped t ...
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Castanospermum
''Castanospermum australe'' (Moreton Bay chestnut or blackbean), the only species in the genus ''Castanospermum'', is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the east coast of Australia in Queensland and New South Wales, and to th ...
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Castanospermum australe
''Castanospermum australe'' (Moreton Bay chestnut or blackbean), the only species in the genus ''Castanospermum'', is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the east coast of Australia in Queensland and New South Wales, and to the ...
Cissus antarctica
''Cissus antarctica'' (synonym ''Cissus oblongata''), called "kangaroo vine", is one of the best known species of the genus Cissus in the family of Vitaceae. It is a climbing plant, a vine, and comes from Australia.
Cultivation
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Citrus
''Citrus'' is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae. Plants in the genus produce citrus fruits, including important crops such as oranges, lemons, grapefruits, pomelos, and limes. The genus ''Citrus'' is nati ...
Microcitrus australis
''Citrus australis'', the Dooja, round lime, Australian lime or Australian round lime, is a large shrub or small tree producing an edible fruit. It grows in forest margins in the Beenleigh area and northwards, in Queensland, Australia.
''Citr ...
, native lime
*** See https://web.archive.org/web/20060819084722/http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/01_cms/details_pop.asp?ID=72
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Clerodendrum floribundum
''Clerodendrum floribundum'', known as the lolly bush or smooth clerodendrum, is a shrub or tree found in Australia and New Guinea. The habitat is in or at the margins of coastal rainforests, up to 300 metres above sea level. In Western Australi ...
Commersonia bartramia
''Commersonia bartramia'', commonly known as brown kurrajong, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is native to Southeast Asia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. It is a small tree or shrub with egg-sh ...
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Corchorus
''Corchorus'' is a genus of about 40–100 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world.
Different common names are used in different contexts, with jute applying to the fi ...
Cordyline
''Cordyline'' is a genus of about 15 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The subfamily has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae, or Lomandraceae. Other aut ...
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Cordyline petiolaris
''Cordyline petiolaris'', known as the broad leaved palm lily is an evergreen Australian plant. A shrub to around 5 metres tall. Found in warm rainforest and moist eucalyptus forest. The range of natural distribution is from the Nambucca Rive ...
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Cordyline rubra
''Cordyline rubra'', known as the palm lily is an evergreen Australian plant. It grows as a shrub to around 4 metres (13 ft) tall. Found in warm rainforest and moist eucalyptus forest. The range of natural distribution is from Lismore to ...
Crinum pedunculatum
''Crinum pedunculatum'' also known as the swamp lily, river lily or mangrove lily, is a bulbous perennial found in stream and tidal areas of the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales, Australia as well as New Guinea and some Pacifi ...
Eucalyptus citriodora
''Corymbia citriodora'', commonly known as lemon-scented gum and other common names, is a species of tall tree that is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It has smooth white to pink bark, narrow lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds ...
Corymbia tessellaris
''Corymbia tessellaris'', commonly known as carbeen or Moreton Bay ash, is a species of tree that is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It has rough, tessellated bark on the lower trunk abruptly changing to smooth, whitish bark above, narrow la ...
Davallia
'' Davallia'' (deersfoot fern, hare's foot fern, shinobu fern, rabbit foot fern, ball fern) is a genus of about 40 species of fern. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is the only genus in the family Davalli ...
Dendrobium
''Dendrobium'' is a genus of mostly Epiphyte, epiphytic and Lithophyte, lithophytic orchids in the Family (biology), family Orchidaceae. It is a very large genus, containing more than 1,800 species that are found in diverse habitats throughout m ...
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Dendrobium speciosum
''Dendrobium speciosum'', commonly known as the rock orchid or cane orchid, is a species of highly variable Australian orchid. Its varieties can be found in a range of habitats as epiphytes (on branches or trunks of trees) or lithophytes. It has ...
'', king orchid
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Dendrobium macropus
''Dendrobium macropus'', commonly known as the Norfolk Island cane orchid, is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae and is endemic to Norfolk Island. It has cylindrical pseudobulbs, thin, dark green leaves and b ...
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Dendrobium linguiforme
''Dendrobium linguiforme'', commonly known as the thumbnail orchid, tick orchid or tongue orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It grows on trees or on rocks, with wiry, prostrate stems, prostr ...
Denhamia pittosporoides
''Denhamia'' is a genus of plants within the family Celastraceae, with species in Australia and New Caledonia. The species inhabit a variety of environments, from rainforest to semi-arid savanna. All species grow as shrubs or small trees up to 1 ...
Dianella caerulea
''Dianella caerulea'', commonly known as the blue flax-lily, blueberry lily, or paroo lily, is a perennial herb of the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, found across the eastern states of Australia and Tasmania. It is a herbaceo ...
'', blue flax lily, paroo lily
***See https://web.archive.org/web/20060822075804/http://www.lhccrems.nsw.gov.au/CPR/CPR/plant_profiles/d.caerulea.htm
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Dianella congesta Dianella may refer to:
* Dianella (beetle), ''Dianella'' (beetle), a species and genus of beetle in the family Carabidae now known as ''Diamella''
* Dianella (gastropod), ''Dianella'' (gastropod), a genus of freshwater snails in the family Hydrobii ...
Dysoxylum rufum
''Dysoxylum rufum'' is a rainforest tree in the family Meliaceae, found in eastern Australia. It occurs on a variety of different soils and rainforest types. From as far south as Bulahdelah, New South Wales to the McIlwraith Range in far north ea ...
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Ehretia
''Ehretia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 50 species.
The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770).
Species
Accepted species and other nota ...
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**'' Ehretia acuminata'', koda
***See https://web.archive.org/web/20060822095556/http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/old_site/database/Ehretia_acuminata.htm
*'' Elaeocarpus'', quandong
**'' Elaeocarpus obovatus'', hard quandong
*** See https://web.archive.org/web/20060822080433/http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/old_site/database/Elaeo_obovatus.htm
**'' Elaeocarpus reticulatus'', blueberry ash
*** See https://web.archive.org/web/20060822084117/http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/old_site/database/Elaeo_reticulatus.htm
*'' Elattostachys''
**'' Elattostachys xylocarpa'', white tamarind
*'' Erythina''
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Erythrina vespertilio
''Erythrina vespertilio'' is a tree native to north and north-east Australia. Its common names are grey corkwood, bat's wing coral tree, yulbah and the more ambiguous " bean tree". In the Western Desert language it is also known as ''ininti'' ...
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Eucalyptus
''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of Flowering plant, flowering trees, shrubs or Mallee (habit), mallees in the Myrtaceae, myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the Tribe (biology) ...
Euroschinus falcata
''Euroschinus falcatus'' (sometimes spelled ''Euroschinus falcata'') is a species of tree in the family Anacardiaceae. Common names include pink poplar, ribbonwood, maiden's blush, and blush cudgerie. It is an endemic Australian species, ranging ...
'', ribbonwood
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Ficus
''Ficus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending int ...
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Ficus coronata
''Ficus coronata'', commonly known as the sandpaper fig or creek sandpaper fig, is a species of fig tree, native to Australia. It is found along the east coast from Mackay in Central Queensland, through New South Wales and just into Victoria ne ...
Ficus opposita
''Ficus opposita'' is one of several fig species commonly known as sandpaper figs. It is native to the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia.Other common names include sweet sandpaper fig, sweet fig and the ambiguous "figwood" and "wate ...
Glochidion
''Glochidion'' is a genus of flowering plants, of the family Phyllanthaceae, known as cheese trees or buttonwood in Australia, and leafflower trees in the scientific literature. It comprises about 300 species, distributed from Madagascar to the P ...
Gmelina
''Gmelina'' is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae. It consists of about 35 species in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Southeast Asia, India and a few in Africa. Some species such as ''G. arborea'' have been planted and/or become na ...
Grevillea
''Grevillea'', commonly known as spider flowers, is a genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. Plants in the genus ''Grevillea'' are shrubs, rarely trees, with the leaves arranged alternately along the ...
Hakea florulenta
''Hakea florulenta'', commonly known as three-nerved willow hakea, is a woody shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.
Description
''Hakea florulenta'' is an erect shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height ...
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**'' Harpullia pendula'', tulipwood
*** See https://web.archive.org/web/20060822084730/http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/old_site/database/Harp_pendula.htm
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Harpullia hillii
''Harpullia hillii'', commonly known as blunt-leaved tulip or oblong-leaved tulip, is a tree in the family Sapindaceae, endemic to eastern Australia.
Although the species may grow to 20 metres high, most trees are less than 10 metres high. Each l ...
'', Hill's tulipwood
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Hibiscus
''Hibiscus'' is a genus of flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), gras ...
Hovea acutifolia
''Hovea acutifolia'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is an upright, small shrub with blue to purple pea flowers, dark green leaves and rusty coloured new growth. It grows in Queensland and New South Wales.
Descriptio ...
Hymenosporum flavum
''Hymenosporum'' is a Monotypic taxon , monotypic genus in the family Pittosporaceae. The sole included species is ''Hymenosporum flavum'', commonly known as native frangipani, which is a rainforest tree native to New Guinea, Queensland and Ne ...
Jagera pseudorhus
''Jagera pseudorhus'', commonly named foambark, is a species of rainforest trees, in the northern half of eastern Australia and in New Guinea, constituting part of the flowering plant family Sapindaceae. Named for the saponin foam that forms on t ...
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*** See https://web.archive.org/web/20060819081635/http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/01_cms/details_pop.asp?ID=247
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Jasminum
Jasmine ( taxonomic name: ''Jasminum''; , ) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family (Oleaceae). It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania. Jasmines are widely culti ...
Lomandra
''Lomandra'', commonly known as mat rushes, is a genus of perennial, herbaceous monocots in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. There are 51 species, all of which are native to Australia; two of them also extend into New Guin ...
Lomandra confertifolia
''Lomandra confertifolia'' is a species of perennial herbs in the genus '' Lomandra'', Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. It is native to Queensland, Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereig ...
Lophostemon confertus
''Lophostemon confertus'' (syn. ''Tristania conferta''), is an evergreen tree native to Australia, though it is cultivated in the United States and elsewhere. Common names include brush box, Queensland box, Brisbane box, pink box, box scrub, and ...
'', brush box, Queensland box, Brisbane box
*** See https://web.archive.org/web/20060819082113/http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/01_cms/details_pop.asp?ID=59
Macrozamia
''Macrozamia'' is a genus of around forty species of cycads, family Zamiaceae, all of which are endemic to Australia. Many parts of the plant have been utilised for food and material, most of which is toxic if not processed correctly.
Descript ...
Mallotus philippensis
''Mallotus philippensis'' is a plant in the spurge family. It is known as the kamala tree or red kamala or kumkum tree, due to the fruit covering, which produces a red dye. However, it must be distinguished from kamala meaning "lotus" in many Ind ...
'', red kamala
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Mallotus claoxyloides
''Mallotus claoxyloides'' is an Australian rainforest plant in the spurge family. Common names include green kamala, odour bush, and smell of the bush. Opinions are divided on the strong scent of the plant. Some say it is offensive and resemble ...
'', green kamala
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Mallotus discolor
''Mallotus discolor'' is an Australian rainforest tree in the spurge family. It is known as the yellow kamala, due to the yellowish orange fruit covering, which produces a yellow dye.
Description
It is a small to medium-sized tree, often aroun ...
Chinaberry
''Melia azedarach'', commonly known as the chinaberry tree, pride of India, bead-tree, Cape lilac, syringa berrytree, Persian lilac, Indian lilac, or white cedar, is a species of deciduous tree in the mahogany family, Meliaceae, that is nativ ...
citrus
''Citrus'' is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae. Plants in the genus produce citrus fruits, including important crops such as oranges, lemons, grapefruits, pomelos, and limes. The genus ''Citrus'' is nati ...
Oplismenus
''Oplismenus'' is a small genus of annual or perennial grasses, commonly known as basketgrass, found throughout the tropics, subtropics, and in some cases, temperate regions of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The systematics of the ge ...
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Oplismenus aemulus
''Oplismenus hirtellus'' (commonly known as basket grass) is a flowering perennial plant from the family Poaceae that can be found on every continent in the world except Antarctica, growing mostly in coastal tropic and subtropic regions as we ...
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Ottochloa
''Ottochloa'' is a genus of African, Asian, and Australian plants in the grass family.Stapf, Otto 1920. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 741Ottochloa gracillima'', graceful grass
*'' Owenia''
**'' Owenia venosa'', crow's apple
Pandorea floribunda
''Pandorea floribunda'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is similar to ''Pandorea pandorana'' but the leaflets are egg-shaped, long and wide and the flowers are pale yellow to c ...
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Pandorea jasminoides
''Pandorea jasminoides'', also known by the common names bower of beauty and bower vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a woody climber with pinnate leaves that have three t ...
Pararchidendron
''Pararchidendron'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae
Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae ...
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Pararchidendron pruinosum
''Pararchidendron pruinosum'' is an Australian rainforest tree growing from the Shoalhaven River (34° S) in New South Wales to Herberton (17° S) in north Queensland. It is also found in New Guinea and Indonesia. Common names include Snow-wood, ...
Pavetta australiensis
''Pavetta'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises about 360 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. It is found in woodlands, grasslands and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The plan ...
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Pittosporum
''Pittosporum'' ( or ) is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae. The genus is probably Gondwanan in origin; its present range extends from Australasia, Oceania, eastern Asia and some parts of Africa. '' ...
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Pittosporum rhombifolium
''Auranticarpa rhombifolia'' is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. Known as the diamond leaf pittosporum, this tree is planted in many parts of Australia as an ornamental. The white flowers and orange fruit make it a most appealing street ...
Planchonella cotinifolia
''Pouteria cotinifolia'' is an Australian tree in the family Sapotaceae. The common names include small-leaved plum, yellow lemon and small-leaved coondoo. It occurs in the drier rainforests from the Richmond River, New South Wales to the Wenlock ...
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Planchonella pohlmaniana
''Planchonella'' is a genus of Flowering plant, flowering trees in the gutta-percha family (biology), family, Sapotaceae. Named in honour of Jules Émile Planchon, it contains around 100 mainly tropical species, two of which occur in South Americ ...
'', engraver's wood
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Planchonella myrsinoides
''Pouteria myrsinoides'' is an Australian tree in the family Sapotaceae. The common names include yellow plumwood, axe-handle wood and blunt-leaved coondoo. It occurs in seaside rainforests and drier rainforests from the Forster, New South Wal ...
Platycerium superbum
''Platycerium superbum'', commonly known as the staghorn fern, is a ''Platycerium'' species of fern. It is native plant, native to Australia.
Distribution
The fern is native to north-east New South Wales (north of Nabiac) and Queensland. It ...
'', staghon
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Podocarpus
''Podocarpus'' () is a genus of conifers, the most numerous and widely distributed of the podocarp family, the Podocarpaceae. The name comes from Greek πούς (poús, “foot”) + καρπός (karpós, “fruit”). ''Podocarpus'' speci ...
Pteris
''Pteris'' (brake) is a genus of about 300 species of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae. They are native to tropical and subtropical regions, southward to New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, north to Japan a ...
Pteris tremula
''Pteris tremula'', commonly known as Australian brake, tender brake, tender brakefern, shaking brake is a fern species of the family Pteridaceae native to sheltered areas and forests in eastern Australia and New Zealand. It has pale green, lac ...
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Pultenaea
''Pultenaea'' is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves and orange or yellow flowers similar to others in the family but with the ...
Pyrrosia confluens
''Pyrrosia confluens'' known as the Horseshoe Felt Fern or Robber Fern is a common fern of eastern Australia. Occurring as an epiphyte or lithophyte in areas of part shade and high moisture. Often seen on rocks or creeping up on rainforest trees ...
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Rhodosphaera
''Rhodosphaera'' is a genus of plants in the family Anacardiaceae. The genus includes a single species, ''Rhodosphaera rhodanthema'', which is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It grows in sub tropical rainforests and also in the drier fo ...
Smilax
''Smilax'' is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. In China for example about 80 are found (39 of which are endemic), while there are 20 in North America north of Mexico. They are climbing flow ...
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Smilax australis
''Smilax australis'' (lawyer vine, austral sarsaparilla, barbwire vine, or " wait-a-while") is a vine in the family Smilacaceae, endemic to Australia. It has prickly climbing stems that are up to 8 metres long with coiled tendrils that are ...
Sterculia
''Sterculia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae: subfamily Sterculioideae (previously placed in the now obsolete Sterculiaceae). Members of the genus are colloquially known as tropical chestnuts. ''Sterculia'' ma ...
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Sterculia quadrifida
''Sterculia quadrifida'', also known as the peanut tree, or red-fruited kurrajong is a small tree that grows in the rainforests, vine thickets, and gallery forests of New Guinea and northern Australia.
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Streblus
''Streblus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mulberry family, Moraceae. The genus is found in the Pacific across Southeast Asia, Eastern Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Species include:
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Streblus brunonianus
''Streblus brunonianus'', known as the whalebone tree, is a small tree in the fig family. Commonly seen in a variety different types of rainforest, particularly by streams.
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Tabernaemontana pandacaqui
''Tabernaemontana pandacaqui'', known as windmill bush and banana bush, is a species of plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae.
Description
''Tabernaemontana pandacaqui'' grows as a shrub or tree up to tall. Its flowers feature white or pale y ...
Trema aspera
''Trema tomentosa'' var. ''viridis'' is a forest plant. In Australia it occurs from Twofold Bay (37° S) in New South Wales to far northern Queensland, New Guinea and West Papua (Indonesia). It had been recorded near Mallacoota, but is now presu ...
Turraea
''Turraea'' is a genus of plants in the family Meliaceae, native to the Old World
The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe , after Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas. It is used to contras ...
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Turraea pubescens
''Turraea'' is a genus of plants in the family Meliaceae, native to the Old World tropics and subtropics.
Range
The genus is native to the countries of Angola, Australia (Queensland and New South Wales), Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Camer ...
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Waterhousea
''Syzygium'' () is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1200 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific. I ...
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Waterhousea floribunda
''Syzygium floribundum'', synonym ''Waterhousea floribunda'', is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It grows along streams from the Williams River (New South Wales) near Dungog (32° S) to Mackay (21° S) in central eastern Queensland. Kn ...
Wilkiea
''Wilkiea'' is a genus of dioecious trees and shrubs in the Mollinedieae tribe of the family Monimiaceae. They grow in Australia and New Guinea. Mostly with toothed leaves which have short leaf stems. Leaves with many oil dots. The genus appears ...
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Wilkiea macrophylla
''Wilkiea'' is a genus of dioecious trees and shrubs in the Mollinedieae tribe of the family Monimiaceae. They grow in Australia and New Guinea. Mostly with toothed leaves which have short leaf stems. Leaves with many oil dots. The genus appears ...
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Places
Parklands, forests and reserves with native vegetation around Brisbane.
Venman Bushland National Park
Venman Bushland is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 22 km southeast of Brisbane.
History
Jack Venman purchased 255 acres of land on West Mount Cotton Road in the Shire of Redland
Redland City, better known as the Redlands ...
Bribie Island
Bribie Island is the smallest and most northerly of three major sand islands forming the coastline sheltering the northern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. The others are Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island. Bribie Island i ...
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Burleigh Head National Park
Burleigh Head is a small national park at Burleigh Heads in the City of Gold Coast in South East Queensland, Australia.
Geography
The park is south of Brisbane. The park is tiny yet it contains a diverse range of habitats. Tallebudgera ...
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Glasshouse Mountains
The Glass House Mountains are a cluster of thirteen hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The highest hill is Mount Beerwah at 556 metres above sea level, but the most identifiable of al ...
North Stradbroke Island
North Stradbroke Island ( Jandai: ''Minjerribah''), colloquially ''Straddie'' or ''North Straddie'', is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in the Australian state of Queensland, southeast of the centre of Brisbane. Originally there was o ...
Tamborine Mountain
Tamborine Mountain is a plateau and locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tamborine Mountain had a population of 7,506 people.
Geography
The plateau is a , . The name is from the of Yugumbir language of the Wanger ...
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White Rock Conservation Park
White Rock, a prominent pale-coloured rockface on a peak, is the major feature of interest of the White Rock Conservation Park, situated within the White Rock, Queensland (Ipswich) locality, Australia. It is also known as "Nugum" to the traditi ...
Protected areas of Queensland
Queensland is the second largest state in Australia. It contains around 500 separate protected areas. In 2020, it was estimated a total of 14.2 million hectares or 8.25% of Queensland's landmass was protected.
List of terrestrial protected a ...
References
;Plant Reference Materials Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) Australian National Botanic Gardens; Australian National Herbarium Brisbane Rainforest Action & Information Network *"Eucalyptus Forest Guide"; P.A.R. Young, P.J. Hauser; Brisbane Forest Park Administration Authority, 1988;
*"Field guide to Eucalypts Volume 3 Northern Australia"; Brooker, Kleinig; Inkata Press, 1994; (including Corymbia and Angophora); Andrew Lyne; Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research; "Key to Eucalypts of Greater Brisbane" Queensland Herbarium with Queensland Government Environmental Protection Agency, August 2001 "Key to the Wattles of Greater Brisbane" Queensland Herbarium with Queensland Government Environmental Protection Agency
*"Mangroves to Mountains - a field guide to the Native Plants of the Logan-Albert River Catchment"; Logan River branch SGAP. (Qld Region) Inc, 2002;
*"Mangroves to Mountains Volume 2 - a field guide to the Native Plants of South-east Queensland"; Logan River branch SGAP (Qld Region) Inc, 2005;
*"Putting back the forest - a landcare guide for Brookfield, Pullenvale and Moggill"; Bryan Hacker, Rona Butler and Rae Rekdahl; Rural Environment Planning Association Inc, 1994;
*"Rainforest Guide"; P.A.R. Young, P.J. Hauser, L.G.H. Hepworth, K Plowman; Brisbane Forest Park Administration Authority, 1991;
*"Tree ID made Easy - a simple guide to open-forest trees of South-East Queensland"; Ann Moran; Published by the author;
*"Wild plants of greater Brisbane - a Queensland Museum Guide";
Queensland Museum
The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland, dedicated to natural history, cultural heritage, science and human achievement. The museum currently operates from its headquarters and general museum in South Brisbane with specialist m ...
Queensland Museum
The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland, dedicated to natural history, cultural heritage, science and human achievement. The museum currently operates from its headquarters and general museum in South Brisbane with specialist m ...