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Nicotiana benthamiana, colloquially known as benth or benthi, is a species of Nicotiana indigenous to Australia. It is a close relative of tobacco. A synonym for this species is Nicotiana suaveolens var. cordifolia, a description given by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis in 1868. This was transferred to Nicotiana benthamiana by Karel Domin in Bibliotheca Botanica (1929), honoring the original author in the specific epithet.

Byblis ( BIB-liss) is a genus of carnivorous plants, sometimes termed the rainbow plants for the attractive appearance of their mucilage-covered leaves in bright sunshine. Native to Australia and New Guinea, it is the only genus in the family Byblidaceae. The first species in the genus was described by the English botanist Richard Anthony Salisbury in 1808. Eight species are now recognised. Byblis species look very similar to Drosera and Drosophyllum, but are distinguished by their zygomorphic flowers, with five curved stamens off to one side of the pistil. These genera are in fact not

Alsophila australis, synonym Cyathea australis, also known as the rough tree fern, is a species of tree fern native to southeastern Queensland, New South Wales and southern Victoria in Australia, as well as Tasmania and Norfolk Island. It was known as beeow-wang in Illawarra, as pooeet at Corranderrk Station in Victoria, and as nanga-nanga in Queensland.

Persoonia levis, commonly known as the broad-leaved geebung, is a shrub native to New South Wales and Victoria in eastern Australia. It reaches 5 m (16 ft) in height and has dark grey papery bark and bright green asymmetrical sickle-shaped leaves up to 14 cm (5.5 in) long and 8 cm (3.2 in) wide. The small yellow flowers appear in summer and autumn (December to April), followed by small green fleshy fruit, which are classified as drupes. Within the genus Persoonia, it is a member of the Lanceolata group of 58 closely related species. P. levis interbreeds with several other species where they

Koeleria delavignei is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. Its native range is Eastern Europe to Siberia.

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Acacia cognata, commonly known as bower wattle, river wattle or narrow-leaf bower-wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub or tree with willowly and arching branchlets, narrowly linear phyllodes, spherical heads of pale lemon-yellow flowers and linear, papery, glabrous, pods.

Oryza australiensis is a wild rice species native to monsoonal northern Australia. Also known as Australian rice or Australian Wild Rice, it is a perennial plant that uses the C3 photosynthesis pathway. O. australiensis is unique among other Oryza for its resistance to abiotic stresses, particularly from heat, and having the largest genome in the genus.

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Homalosciadium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. Its native range is Southwestern Australia. Species: Homalosciadium homalocarpum (F.Muell.) H.Eichler

Acacia inaequilatera, commonly known as kanji bush, baderi, camel bush, fire wattle, kanyji bush or ranji bush is a tree in the family Mimosaceae. Endemic to Australia, it is widely distributed in the semi-arid Triodia country eastwards from Karratha, Western Australia into the Northern Territory.

Acacia argyrodendron, known colloquially as black gidyea or blackwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a tree with hard, furrowed bark, narrowly linear to elliptic phyllodes, golden yellow flowers arranged in racemes, and linear pods up to 120 mm (4.7 in) long.

Panicum simile, known by the common name two colour panic, is a species of grass found in eastern Australia. It was described by Karel Domin in 1915.

Panicum queenslandicum a species of monocotyledon described by Karel Domin. Panicum queenslandicum belongs to the genus Panicum, and the family Poaceae. No subspecies are listed. The species is native to the Maluku Islands, New Guinea and the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

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Astrebla lappacea, commonly known as curly Mitchell grass, is a herb of the family Poaceae from the order Poales. It grows to 0.9 metres (3 ft) tall. Named in honour of Thomas Mitchell, the Latin specific epithet of lappacea is derived from lappa meaning with burrs. The most common of the Astrebla species, it is a widespread Australian inland plant. It is often seen on floodplains and heavy self-mulching clay soils, and flowers in response to rain or flooding. This grass is palatable to livestock, even when dry.

Petalostigma pubescens, known as the quinine bush is a rainforest tree native to Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales, Western Australia. It was first described by the botanist Karel Domin in 1927.

Notochloe is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Notochloe microdon, found only in New South Wales.

Neptunia dimorphantha, commonly known as sensitive plant, is a trailing perennial plant from Australia in the family Fabaceae. It produces yellow flowers between July and November. The species was first formally described by Czech botanist Karel Domin in 1930 in Bibliotheca Botanica, based on a collection in Queensland.

Licuala ramsayi, commonly known as the Queensland fan palm or Australian fan palm, is a species of tree in the palm family Arecaceae which is endemic to northeastern Queensland, Australia. Two varieties are recognised: Licuala ramsayi var. ramsayi, and Licuala ramsayi var. tuckeri. It is the only species of the genus Licuala present in Australia.

Kunzea montana, commonly known as mountain kunzea, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with more or less round leaves and heads of cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers on the ends of the branches in late spring. It is an uncommon species, growing on rocky mountain slopes, but all populations are conserved in the Stirling Range National Park.

Gyrocarpus jatrophifolius, sometimes sharing the name helicopter tree with several other trees with winged fruits which spin in the wind, belongs to the relatively small family, the Hernandiaceae.

Grevillea decora is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect shrub or small tree with a single main stem, oblong, oval or egg-shaped leaves, and groups of pinkish red or pink flowers.

Darwinia squarrosa, commonly known as the fringed mountain bell or pink mountain bell, is a shrub that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.

Cymbopogon bombycinus, or citronella grass (also called silky oil grass) is a species of perennial grass in the family Poaceae that is native to Australia.

Cyathea howeana is a fern in the family Cyatheaceae. The specific epithet refers to Lord Howe Island, the locality in Australia to which it is endemic.

Cerosora is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae.

Cayratia acris is a species of flowering plant in the family Vitaceae. It is native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Cassia marksiana, or Marks cassia, is an Australian rainforest tree growing in far northeastern New South Wales and in southeastern Queensland. The common name is in honour of Dr. C. F. Marks, an early botanical collector. Other common names include cigar cassia, brush cassia, and native laburnum. The Brunswick River is considered the southernmost point of natural distribution. Its habitat is seaside and lowland subtropical rainforest, which is almost completely destroyed, with only small remnant patches remaining. Less than 100 trees are known to exist in the wild in some 20 locations.

Calochilus grandiflorus, commonly known as the giant beard orchid or golden beard orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to eastern Australia. It has a single leaf with a reddish base and up to fifteen relatively large golden bronze-coloured flowers with a red or coppery red "beard".