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Plant Species found in Subtropical Rainforests
These species may be found in subtropical rainforest
Trees
| Large Emergents |
| Hoop pine (Araucauria cunninghamii) |
| Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla subsp. macrophylla) |
| Creek Sandpaper Fig (F.obliqua, F. coronata) |
| Red Cedar (Toona ciliata) |
| The Main Canopy |
| Red Apple (Acmena ingens) |
| Turnipwood (Arkania bidwillii) |
| Brush Bloodwood (Baloghia inophylla) |
| Illawarra Flame Tree (Brachychiton acerifolius) |
| Soft Corkwood (Caldcluvia paniculosa) |
| Black Bean (Castanospermum australa) |
| Pigeonberry Ash (Cryptocarya erythroxylon) |
| Pepperberry (C. obvata) |
| Singing Tree (Daphnandra micrantha, Dendrochnide excelsa) |
| Native Tamarind (Diploglottis australis) |
| Sassafras (Doryphora sassafras) |
| Rosewood (Dysoxylon fraserianum) |
| Blue Quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis) |
| Crows Ash (Flindersia australis) |
| Red Carabeen (Geissoois benthamiana) |
| White Beech (Gmelina leichhardtii) |
| Black Booyong (Heritiera actinaphylla) |
| White Booyong (H. trifoliolata) |
| Brush Box (Lophostemon confertus) |
| Prickly Ash (Orites excelsa) |
| Yellow Carabeen (Sloanea woolsii) |
| Purple Cherry (Syzygium crebrinerve) |
| Sour Cherry (S. corynanthum) |
| Subcanopy |
| Bangalow Palm (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana), and saplings of many other species |
| Shrubs |
| Orange Thorn (Citriobatus pauciflorus) |
| Narrow-leaved palm lilley (Cordyline stricta) |
| Walking-stick Palm (Linospadix monostachya) |
| White Bolly Gum (Neolistea dealbata) |
| Deatherwood (Polyosma cunninghamii) |
| Prickly supplejack (Ripogonum discolor) |
| Steelwood (Sarcopteryx stipata) |
| Veiny wilkiea (Wilkiea huegeliana) |
| Vines & Creepers |
| Water vine (Cissus antarctica) |
| Morinda jasminoides |
| Parsonsia veluntia |
| Giant Pepper vine (Piper novae-hollandiae) |
| Burney vine (Trophis scandens subsp scandens) |
| Herbs |
| Rats tail orchid (Dendrobium fairfaxii & D. gracilicaule)-epiphytic orchids |
| Pastel flower (Pseuderanthemum variabile) |
| Native yam (Dioscoria transversa)-forest floor |
| Cunjevoi (Alocasia brisbanensis)-forest floor |
| Ferns |
| Birds nest fern (Asplenium australasicum)-epiphytic |
| Elkhorn (Platycerium bifurcatum) |
| Horseshoe felt vine (Pyrossia confluenns var. confluens)-epiphytic |
| Arthropteris beckleri -climbing fern |
| A. tenella - climbing fern |
| Giant maidenhair (Adiantum formosum)-ground fern |
| Strap water-fern (Blechnum patersonii subsp patersonii)-ground fern |
| Prickly treefern (Cyathea leichhardtiana) |
| Naked shield fern (Dictymia brownii & Lastreopsis munita) |
| Grasses and Grass-like plants |
| Cyperus disjunctus |
| Lomandra soicata |
| Settlers flax (Gymnostachys anceps) |
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