Andrew James Ford

Melaleuca sylvana is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area near Ravenshoe in Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with decussate, tiny egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, heads of white flowers and nearly spherical clusters of woody capsules.

Passiflora kuranda is a plant in the passionfruit family Passifloraceae found only in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a tendril climber to about 15 m (49 ft) long and 8 cm (3.1 in) diameter, with simple leaves up to 17 cm (6.7 in) long and 7.5 cm (3.0 in) wide. The flowers are about 3 cm (1.2 in) wide and the fruit is about 9 cm (3.5 in) long, 7 cm (2.8 in) wide and green when ripe. It inhabits rainforest from Cooktown southwards to Cairns and the Atherton Tableland, at altitudes from near sea level to about 900 m (3,000 ft).

Hollandaea porphyrocarpa is a species of plant in the macadamia family Proteaceae. It is endemic to a very restricted area of the rainforests of the Wet Tropics region of northeastern Queensland. First described in 2012, it has been given the conservation status of critically endangered.

Hollandaea diabolica is a species of Australian rainforest tree, constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae. It is endemic to restricted areas of the rainforests of the Wet Tropics region of northeastern Queensland. Hollandaea diabolica was recognised by botanical science only as recently as the 1990s and formally scientifically described in 2012 by botanists Andrew Ford and Peter Weston. Around the early 1990s the trees were recognised only in a restricted area in the mountains west and north west of Mossman, Queensland. Another population of H. diabolica affinity was subsequently

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Brassiantha hedraiantheroides is a species of Australian understory shrubs or small trees, constituting part of the plant family Celastraceae. In 2012 botanist Andrew J. Ford formally scientifically named and described them as the first recognised Australian species of the genus Brassiantha. Previously several publications provided informal scientific descriptions of this species under the provisional names "Hedraianthera sp. Mossman (V.K.Moriarty 2557) Qld Herbarium" or "Hedraianthera sp. Mossman". They are endemic to a restricted area of the wet tropics rainforests of north eastern

Backhousia enata is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, native to Northeastern Queensland. It is a multi-stemmed large shrub or tree with rough grey-brown bark on the main trunk. The leaves are glossy and can have a strong aroma that can be described as a menthol smell. It has white flowers arranged in groups of three to six individual flowers.

Wilkiea kaarruana is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is endemic to northern Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with elliptic to oblong leaves, and male and female flowers on separate plants, each with 4 to 6 tepals. Male flowers usually have 2 pairs of stamens and female flowers have about 21 to 26 carpels.

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Melaleuca lophocoracorum is a plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in the Ravenshoe State Forest, near Ravenshoe in Queensland, Australia. It is a species of shrub or small tree with twisted leaves and spikes of cream-coloured flowers in summer.

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Tecomanthe burungu, commonly known as Roaring Meg Creek trumpet vine or pink trumpet vine, is a climber native to Queensland, Australia. The taxon was recorded in the Australian Plant Census in 2010 as Tecomanthe sp. Roaring Meg and formally described in 2018. Plants are cultivated for their ornamental pink tubular flowers.

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Rhodomyrtus verecunda is an extremely rare species in the family Myrtaceae, which is endemic to the area in and around Cape Tribulation in North Queensland.

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