Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Species of Northern Warm Temperate Rainforest

 
Trees
Dominant canopy species
Lilly pilly (Acmena smithii)
Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum)
Sassafras (Doryphora sassafras)
Other trees
Hard corkwood (Endiandra sieberi)
Sweet pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum)
Possumwood (Quintinia sieberi)
North from Barrington Tops - common species
Soft corkwood (Caldcluvia paniculosa)
Prickly ash (Orites excelsa)
 
Shrubs
Black wattle (Callicoma serratifolia)
Orange thorn (Citriobatus pauciforus)
Narrow-leaved palm lily (Cordyline stricta)
Brush muttonwood (Rapanea howwittiana)
Brush pepperbush (Tasmannia insipida)
 
Vines and Creepers
Climbing panax (Cephalarialia cephalobotrys
Hibbertia scandens var. glabra
Common milk vine (Marsdenia rostrata)
Morinda jasminoides
Wonga wonga vine (Pandorea pandorana)
Black silkpod (Parsonsia purpurescens)
Petermannia cirrosa
Prickly supplejack (Ripogonum discolor)
Sarsaparilla (Smilax australis)
 
Herbs
Blue flax lily (Dianella caerulea var. producta
 
Ferns
Birds nest fern (Asplenium australasicum)
Gristle fern (Blechnum cartilagineum)
Common ground fern (Calochlaena dubia)
Rough treefern (Cythea australis)
Bats wing fern (Histiopteris incisa)
Trim shield fern (Lastreopsis decomposita)
Microsorum pustulatum subsp. pustulatum
 
Grasses and Grass-like plants
Lomandra spicata

Sources & Further reading

Biological Duricrust
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Chenopod  Shrublands
Claypans
Cooper Creek Floodplain
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Mound Springs
Mt Poole
Mulga Woodland
Nitre Bush
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Simpson Desert Flora
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