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Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as the broad-leaved paperbark or paper bark tea tree in Australia, niaouli in New Caledonia and punk tree in the United States, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It grows as a spreading tree up to 20 m (70 ft) tall, with its trunk covered by a white, beige and grey thick papery bark. The grey-green leaves are egg-shaped, and cream or white bottlebrush-like flowers appear from late spring to autumn. It was first formally described in 1797 by the Spanish naturalist Antonio José Cavanilles. Native to New Caledonia, Papua New

Idiospermum is a monotypic genus (that is, a genus that contains only one species) in the family Calycanthaceae. The sole included species is Idiospermum australiense − commonly known as ribbonwood, dinosaur tree, or the misnomer idiotfruit − which is found only in two small areas of the tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It has the largest seed embryo of any flowering plant, and is the only flowering plant with more than two cotyledons. It is a relic of the ancient forests of Gondwana, surviving in very localised refugia for 120 million years, and displaying features

Callitris canescens is a species of conifer in the family Cupressaceae. It is found only in Australia.

Ancistrachne is a genus of plants in the grass family. Species Ancistrachne ancylotricha (Quisumb. & Merr.) S.T.Blake - Philippines Ancistrachne maidenii (A.A.Ham.) Vickery - New South Wales Ancistrachne numaeensis (Balansa) S.T.Blake - New Caledonia Ancistrachne uncinulata (R.Br.) S.T.Blake - Queensland, New South Wales; introduced in Fiji

Thyridolepis is a genus of Australian plants in the family Poaceae.

Eucalyptus urophylla, commonly known as Timor white gum, Timor mountain gum, popo or ampupu, is a species of eucalypt native to islands of the Indonesian Archipelago and Timor. It is also common in other countries with humid and subhumid tropical climates where it is grown as plantation timber. It is the floral emblem of East Timor.

Bothriochloa bladhii (commonly called, variously, Australian bluestem, Caucasian bluestem, forest-bluegrass, plains bluestem, and purple plume grass) is a Neotropic grass in the family Poaceae, found primarily in tropical Africa, and tropical and temperate Asia, and Australia. The type specimen was collected from China by Finnish botanist Peter Johan Bladh. The name of Bladh is honored in the specific epithet.

Zygochloa is a genus of desert plants in the grass family known only from Australia. The only known species is Zygochloa paradoxa, commonly known as sandhill canegrass. It occurs in extremely arid areas such as the Simpson Desert.

Pheidochloa is a genus of Australian and Papuasian plants in the grass family. Species Pheidochloa gracilis S.T.Blake - New Guinea, Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia Pheidochloa vulpioides Veldkamp - New Guinea

Eucalyptus panda, commonly known as tumbledown ironbark or Yetman ironbark, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has dark ironbark, linear to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped or hemispherical fruit.

Eucalyptus melanoleuca, commonly known as yarraman ironbark or nanango ironbark, is a species of tree that is endemic to south-east Queensland. It has rough ironbark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped, to cup-shaped or conical fruit.

Zygochloa is a genus of desert plants in the grass family known only from Australia. The only known species is Zygochloa paradoxa, commonly known as sandhill canegrass. It occurs in extremely arid areas such as the Simpson Desert.

Sarcozona praecox, commonly known as sarcozona, is species of flowering plant in the family Aizoaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a small erect to low-lying, succulent shrub with leaves that are triangular in cross-section and arranged in opposite pairs, and daisy-like flowers with twenty to eighty pink, petal-like staminodes and 20 to 150 stamens.

Melaleuca dealbata, commonly known as karnbor or blue paperbark, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is native to tropical areas in northern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia. It is a medium to large leafy tree, growing in wet areas such as on the edges of coastal lagoons. It has papery bark, relatively large, blue-green leaves and spikes of cream-coloured flowers over a long period.

Gahnia grandis is a tussock-forming perennial plant found in southeastern mainland Australia and Tasmania. Originally described by botanist Jacques Labillardière as Scleria grandis in 1800, it was placed in its current genus by S. T. Blake in 1969. In Tasmania, Gahnia is the most widely seen genus, with seven native species. Six of these species are very large, erect graminoids with sharp-edged leaves resembling a razor, hence the common names cutting grass and cutty grass.

Dendrobium wassellii, commonly known as furrowed pencil orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to a small area on Cape York Peninsula. It is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with branched stems, cylindrical, furrowed leaves and flowering stems with up to sixty crowded white flowers with a yellow labellum.

Cyperus betchei is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia.

Carpobrotus modestus, commonly known as inland pigface, is a succulent perennial of the family Aizoaceae, native to Australia. It produces purple flowers which mature into fruits. It is mainly used as a groundcover succulent or as a drought tolerant plant.

Tragus australianus, common names (in Australia) Burr grass, Small burrgrass, and Tickgrass, is a summer ephemeral grass (in the Poaceae family), first described by Stanley Thatcher Blake in 1941. It flowers in response to rain. Its native range is mainland Australia, where it is found in arid and semi-arid areas.

Thyridolepis mitchelliana (common name mulga grass or mulga mitchell grass) is a plant in the grass family, found in all mainland states and territories of Australia, except Victoria. It was first described in 1843 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck as Neurachne mitchelliana, but was transferred to the genus Thyridolepis in 1972 by Stanley Blake. The species epithet, mitchelliana, honours Thomas Livingstone Mitchell.

Melaleuca stenostachya, commonly known as fibre-barked teatree or straight teatree is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is native to the Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia, the gulf country of the Northern Territory and the south of Papua New Guinea. It is closely related to Melaleuca dealbata but can be distinguished from that species by the wide separation of the flowers in the inflorescence.

Melaleuca arcana is a small tree or large shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia. It has papery bark and small heads of white flowers in summer.

Horsfieldia australiana, commonly known as the Cape nutmeg, is a species of tropical rainforest tree in the family Myristicaceae. It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Eucalyptus brassiana, commonly known as Cape York gum, gum-topped peppermint or as karo in PNG is a small to medium-sized tree that is native to northern Queensland and PNG. It has rough, hard, fissured bark on the trunk and smooth greyish bark on the branches, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and hemispherical or cup-shaped fruit.

Eleocharis plana, the flat spike-sedge, is a flat perennial sedge (in the family Cyperaceae) with creeping rhizomes, which grows up to 80 cm high in moist situations. It is widespread in inland New South Wales, and is also found in Queensland and in South Australia. The spikelets are narrow and from 10 to 20 mm long (sometimes 40 mm). There are three stamens. The anthers are 1.5–3.1 mm long and the style is trifid. The nut is obovoid, and from 1.2 to 1.8 mm long and about 1 mm in diameter. It is shining and a bright yellow to brown, with the base of the style base being about half as long and

Eleocharis pallens, commonly known as pale spikerush, is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia. The perennial herb to grass-like sedge typically grows to a height of 0.5 metres (1.6 ft) and has a tufted habit. It blooms between July and August and produces green flowers. It is found in and around swampy areas and pools in the Pilbara, Gascoyne and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia and the top end of the Northern Territory.

Cymbopogon obtectus is a species of perennial grass in the genus Cymbopogon. The grass is native to Australia and was described by Stanley Thatcher Blake in 1944. It is found in drier areas. The plant can be harvested in the wild to produce essential oil with medicinal properties. The plant is resilient to climate change, and has been used in re-vegetation projects.

Cerbera inflata, commonly known as the cassowary plum, grey milkwood, Joojooga, or rubber tree, is a plant in the family Apocynaceae endemic to northeast Queensland, specifically the Atherton Tableland and adjacent areas.

Capillipedium spicigerum, commonly known as scented-top grass, is a species of perennial grass in the family Poaceae that is native to Australia.

Bothriochloa macra, commonly known as red-leg grass, red grass, redleg or pitted beard grass is a perennial grass species that is native to eastern Australia and New Zealand. It is naturalised in Tasmania and Norfolk Island.