Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria (Australia) by Governor Charles La Trobe in 1853, and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He named many Australian plants.
Emblingia is a monospecific plant genus containing the species Emblingia calceoliflora, a herbaceous prostrate subshrub endemic to Western Australia. It has no close relatives, and is now generally placed alone in family Emblingiaceae.
Adenanthos detmoldii, commonly known as Scott River jugflower or yellow jugflower, is a species of shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.
Pachymitus is a monotypic plant genus in the mustard family Brassicaceae. The sole species is Pachymitus cardaminoides, commonly known as sand cress, which is native to Australia. It occurs in the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
Hollandaea is a small genus of plants in the family Proteaceae containing four species of Australian rainforest trees. All four species are endemic to restricted areas of the Wet Tropics of northeast Queensland.
Nymphoides crenata, commonly known as wavy marshwort, is an aquatic perennial herb of the family Menyanthaceae endemic to Australia, found in all mainland states and the Northern Territory
Olearia pannosa, commonly known as silver-leaved daisy or velvet daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading undershrub or shrub with egg-shaped or heart-shaped leaves, and white and yellow daisy flowers.
Swainsona procumbens is a plant in the pea family (Fabaceae) native to Australia and found in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia.
Palaquium galactoxylum, commonly known as Cairns pencil cedar, Daintree maple or red silkwood, is a species of very large tree in the family Sapotaceae which is endemic to rainforests of New Guinea and northern Australia. It can produce spectacularly large buttress roots.
Asteridea athrixioides is a herb in the Asteraceae family, which is endemic to Australia, and found in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria. It was first described in 1853 by Otto Sonder and Ferdinand von Mueller as Panaetia athrixioides, who described it from specimen(s) collected in the Port Lincoln district. In 1980, G. Kroner assigned it to the genus, Asteridea, giving it the name Asteridea athrixioides. It is an annual herb, growing on calcareous, sandy or clay soils to heights of from 5 cm to 20 cm. Its yellow flowers may seen from July to November on saline on allvial flats, rocky hills and undulating plains.
Dicrastylis lewellinii is a species of plant within the genus, Dicrastylis, in the family Lamiaceae. It is found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia.
Commersonia craurophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to Australia. It is a hairy-stemmed shrub. The leaves have entire margins, and are covered in both simple and stellate hairs.
Stenopetalum is a genus in the Brassicaceae family which is endemic to Australia. It was first described by Robert Brown in 1821.
Goodenia cycnopotamica is a plant in the Goodeniaceae family which is endemic to Australia, and found in both South Australia and Western Australia
Arabidella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It was first described in 1853 by Ferdinand von Mueller as a subgenus of Erysimum to give the name, Erysimum subg. Arabidella, but was elevated to genus status by Otto Eugen Schulz in 1924. The type species is Arabidella trisecta.
Harmsiodoxa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Pentalepis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae which is endemic to Australia and found only in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Sclerolaena eurotioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Western Australia. It was first described in 1869 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Echinopsilon eurotioides, but was transferred to the genus, Sclerolaena in 1978 by Andrew John Scott.
Sesbania formosa is a leguminous tree native to northern Australia, first described in 1860 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Agati formosum, from specimens collected the banks of the Victoria and Fitzmaurice Rivers. It was transferred to the genus, Sesbania, by Nancy Burbidge in 1965.
Senna notabilis is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, and the subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Australia, first described in 1862 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Cassia notabilis. It was transferred to the genus, Senna in 1990 by Barbara Rae Randell.
