Fontainea is a genus constituting part of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. The nine currently known species grow naturally in Queensland (Qld) and New South Wales (NSW) Australia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea. Some species are commonly named blushwood.
Diploglottis is a genus of 11 species in the lychee and maple family Sapindaceae. Most species only occur in the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, but all species except one are endemic to eastern Australia, with the exception being D. diphyllostegia, which also occurs in New Guinea. They are commonly called tamarinds, for example northern tamarind, Babinda tamarind and Bernie's tamarind, however they are not closely related to the true tamarind from the family Fabaceae.
Ixora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is the only genus in the tribe Ixoreae. It consists of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs and holds around 544 species. Though native to the tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, its centre of diversity is in Tropical Asia. Ixora also grows commonly in subtropical climates in the United States, such as Florida where it is commonly known as West Indian jasmine.
Stylidium muscicola is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium that was described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859. It is an erect annual plant that grows from 5 to 33 cm tall. Obovate or orbicular leaves, about 4-20 per plant, form terminal rosettes with some scattered along the stems. The leaves are generally 6–33 mm long and 5–28 mm wide. This species generally has one to eight scapes and cymose inflorescences that are 3–17 cm long. Flowers are white, pink, or mauve. S. muscicola's native range is concentrated in and around western Kimberley in Western Australia and extends to the northern parts of the Northern Territory and east almost to Queensland. Its typical habitat is a sheltered area along a sandstone ridge in sandy soils that remain moist in the dry seasons. It flowers in the southern hemisphere from February to September.
Macrozamia mountperriensis is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae endemic to the area around Mount Perry in Queensland; however, it is not considered threatened due to its large population in the area. The species was discovered by colonial botanists including Frederick Manson Bailey and James Keys in the late 1800s. All members of the Zamiaceae family are considered to be poisonous.
Anthony Russell Bean is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha. Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants.
Rhodamnia whiteana, known as the cliff malletwood or White's malletwood is a sub-tropical rainforest plant of eastern Australia. It was first formally described in 1986 by Gordon Guymer and Laurence Jessup from a specimen collected from Mount Cordeaux.
Leichhardtia flavescens, synonym Marsdenia flavescens, is a vine found in eastern Australia. Common names include hairy milk vine, yellow milk vine and native potato.
Allan Adamson Black was a botanist who served as the first curator at Kew. The plant genus Allanblackia was named after him posthumously by Professor Daniel Oliver. The species Austrosteenisia blackii is also named after him.
Dubouzetia is a genus of about eleven species known to science, growing from shrubs up to large trees, in Papuasia and Australasia and constituting part of the plant family Elaeocarpaceae.
Mischocarpus ailae, known as the woolly pear-fruit is a rainforest tree of north eastern New South Wales and south east Queensland, Australia. These southern populations comprising M. ailae were previously included in Mischocarpus lachnocarpus.
Lomandra multiflora, also commonly known as many-flowered mat rush, mat rush and many flowered mat-lily, is a perennial, rhizomatous herb found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. The mat rush is distributed widely in the region and common within its preferred growing conditions. Its conservation status is considered not to be of concern and risk.
Paul Irwin Forster is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2004 with his thesis The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of Australia and related regions.
Gonocarpus teucrioides, or forest raspwort is a common flowering herb or subshrub in the Haloragaceae, or watermilfoil family. It is native to Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania and is widespread and abundant in the understorey of wet forests. The name raspwort refers to the rough, scabrous surface of many of the Gonocarpus species.
Sally T. Reynolds is an Australian botanist. She worked at the Queensland Herbarium as principal botanist and as a specialist on Australian Sapindaceae. Paul Forster named Synima reynoldsiae in recognition of her work on the species.
Kailarsenia is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Gardenieae of the family Rubiaceae. Its native range is Indo-China to West Malesia.
Dischidia ovata, commonly called watermelon dischidia, is a small vine in the frangipani and hoya family Apocynaceae, native to New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula, Australia. The species name ovata refers to its ovate leaves, its common name refers to the leaf venation that resembles a watermelon rind. The species is succulent and grows as an epiphytic or lithophytic vine in a variety of habitats.
Leichhardtia liisae is a climbing plant in the Apocynaceae family, endemic to north-eastern New South Wales.
Leichhardtia archboldiana is a climbing plant in the Apocynaceae family, endemic to Papua New Guinea and Western New Guinea.
Taeniophyllum baumei is an epiphytic orchid, native to the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, in the wet tropics. It was first described in 2018 by Bruce Gray.
