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Collection Holdings from Australia:

Includes:

  1. NFK: Norfolk Is.
  2. NSW: New South Wales
  3. NTA: Northern Territory
  4. QLD: Queensland
  5. SOA: South Australia
  6. TAS: Tasmania
  7. VIC: Victoria
  8. WAU: Western Australia

Aizoaceae

    Subfamily Ruschioideae
    Tribe Ruschieae

    • Carpobrotus rossii - Australia

    Amaryllidaceae

      Subfamily Amaryllidoideae
      Tribe Amaryllideae

      • Crinum asiaticum - tropical Indo-Pacific

      Apiaceae

        Subfamily Mackinlayoideae

        • Centella asiatica - Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia

        Apocynaceae

          Subfamily Asclepiadoideae
          Tribe Marsdenieae

          • Dischidia major - Trop. Asia to N. Queensland
          • Hoya australis ssp. australis - Australia - Cape York and Queensland
          • Hoya macgillivrayi - Queensland, Australia (endemic)

          Subfamily Rauvolfioideae
          Tribe Alyxieae

          • Alyxia ruscifolia - N. & E. Australia to Lord Howe I.

          Subfamily Rauvolfioideae
          Tribe Vinceae

          • Ochrosia elliptica - coastal New Caledonia to Australia

          Araceae

            Subfamily Aroideae
            Tribe Colocasieae

            • Remusatia vivipara - Trop. & Subtrop. Old World

            Subfamily Aroideae
            Tribe Pisteae

            • Pistia stratiotes - Pantropical

            Subfamily Aroideae
            Tribe Thomsonieae

            • Amorphophallus paeoniifolius - Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. Australia

            Subfamily Lemnoideae

            • Lemna minor - Cosmopolitan

            Araliaceae

              Subfamily Aralioideae

              • Polyscias fruticosa - India to Polynesia

              Subfamily Hydrocotyloideae

              • Hydrocotyle verticillata - cosmopolitan

              Araucariaceae

              • Agathis robusta - Papua New Guinea to Bismarck Arch., E. Queensland
              • Araucaria cunninghamii - New Guinea to E. Australia
              • Araucaria heterophylla - Norfolk I. (incl. Philip I.)
              • Wollemia nobilis - Australia - New South Wales

              Arecaceae

              • Linospadix palmerianus - Australia (northeast Queensland)

              Subfamily Arecoideae
              Tribe Areceae

              • Ptychosperma macarthurii - Queensland, Australia

              Asparagaceae

                Subfamily Lomandroideae
                Tribe Arthropodium group

                • Eustrephus latifolius - New Guinea to New Caledonia, E. & SE. Australia

                Subfamily Lomandroideae
                Tribe Cordylineae

                • Cordyline fruticosa - Papuasia to W. Pacific

                Subfamily Lomandroideae
                Tribe Lomandreae

                • Lomandra longifolia - E. & SE. Australia

                Asphodelaceae

                  Subfamily Hemerocallidoideae

                  • Phormium tenax - Norfolk I., New Zealand

                  Subfamily Xanthorrhoeoideae

                  • Xanthorrhoea australis - SE. Australia

                  Austrobaileyaceae

                  • Austrobaileya scandens - Queensland (Cook, North Kennedy)

                  Bignoniaceae

                    Subfamily
                    Tribe Tecomeae

                    • Pandorea jasminoides - E. Queensland to NE. New South Wales

                    Blechnaceae

                      Subfamily Blechnoideae

                      • Doodia caudata - Australia to New Zealand
                      • Doodia media - Australia & New Zealand

                      Subfamily Stenochlaenoideae

                      • Stenochlaena palustris - India, throughout se Asia to Australia & Samoa

                      Byblidaceae

                      • Byblis gigantea - southwestern Australia
                      • Byblis liniflora - northern Australia, New Guinea

                      Calycanthaceae

                      • Idiospermum australiense - Australia

                      Casuarinaceae

                      • Allocasuarina luehmannii - E. & SE. Australia
                      • Casuarina cunninghamiana - Australia, eastern & northern

                      Centrolepidaceae

                        Subfamily
                        Tribe Centrolepideae

                        • Centrolepis strigosa - Australia W/C

                        Cephalotaceae

                        • Cephalotus follicularis - southwest Australia
                        • Cephalotus follicularis - southwest Australia

                        Ceratophyllaceae

                        • Ceratophyllum demersum - cosmopolitan, native to all continents except Antarctica.

                        Convolvulaceae

                          Subfamily Convolvuloideae
                          Tribe Convolvuleae

                          • Calystegia sepium - Europe, Asia, North America

                          Costaceae

                          • Cheilocostus speciosus - Trop. & Subtrop. Asia and Queensland W/C

                          Cunoniaceae

                          • Davidsonia pruriens - Queensland to NE. New South Wales

                          Cupressaceae

                            Subfamily Callitroideae

                            • Callitris columellaris - Australia: Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland
                            • Callitris rhomboidea - Australia: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, & South Aust

                            Cyatheaceae

                            • Cyathea cooperi - Australia

                            Cyperaceae

                              Subfamily Cyperoideae
                              Tribe Cypereae

                              • Cyperus diffusus - Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to Queensland

                              Subfamily Cyperoideae
                              Tribe Eleocharideae

                              • Eleocharis dulcis - Trop. & Subtrop. Old World
                              • Eleocharis sphacelata - New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand

                              Dicksoniaceae

                              • Dicksonia antarctica - Australia

                              Dioscoreaceae

                              • Dioscorea bulbifera - tropical east Africa to Asia

                              Doryanthaceae

                              • Doryanthes palmeri - Australia - QLD & NSW

                              Droseraceae

                              • Aldrovanda vesiculosa - Darwin, Australia W/C
                              • Drosera auriculata - E. & SE. Australia, New Zealand
                              • Drosera binata - E. & SE. Australia, New Zealand, Chatham Is.
                              • Drosera binata - Coromandel, New Zealand W/C
                              • Drosera binata var. multifida extrema - Australia
                              • Drosera callistos - Brookton, Western Australia, Australia
                              • Drosera hartmeyerorum - tropical northern Australia
                              • Drosera macrantha - SW Australia
                              • Drosera pygmaea - S. & E. Australia, New Zealand W/C
                              • Drosera ramellosa - southwestern Australia
                              • Drosera spatulata ssp. lovellae - SE. China to Japan and New Zealand W/C
                              • Drosera x legrandii - western Australia

                              Dryopteridaceae

                              • Lastreopsis munita - Australia

                              Euphorbiaceae

                                Subfamily Crotonoideae
                                Tribe Aleuritideae

                                • Aleurites moluccanus - China, Phillipines

                                Subfamily Crotonoideae
                                Tribe Codiaeae

                                • Codiaeum variegatum - southern Asia, Indonesia and Eastern Pacific islands

                                Eupomatiaceae

                                • Eupomatia laurina - New Guinea to E. & SE. Australia

                                Fabaceae

                                  Subfamily Mimosoideae
                                  Tribe Acacieae

                                  • Acacia brachybotrya - Australia
                                  • Acacia longifolia subsp. sophorae - southeastern Australia - Queensland to Tasmania
                                  • Acacia saligna - western Australia, naturalized elsewhere

                                  Subfamily Mimosoideae
                                  Tribe Ingeae

                                  • Archidendron grandiflorum - Australia - NSW, QLD

                                  Flagellariaceae

                                  • Flagellaria indica - S. Tanzania to Mozambique and W. Pacific

                                  Gnetaceae

                                  • Gnetum gnemon - SE. Tibet to W. Pacific
                                  • Gnetum gnemon - SE. Tibet to W. Pacific

                                  Haemodoraceae

                                    Subfamily Conostyloideae
                                    Tribe Conostylideae

                                    • Anigozanthos flavidus - southwestern Australia
                                    • Anigozanthos sp. - Australia

                                    Hypoxidaceae

                                    • Molineria capitulata - tropical Asia & Australia

                                    Juncaceae

                                    • Juncus effusus 'Spiralis' - Eurasia, N. Amer., Australia, e&s Africa

                                    Lamiaceae

                                      Subfamily Ajugoideae

                                      • Faradaya splendida - NE. Borneo to Solomon Is.

                                      Subfamily Nepetoideae
                                      Tribe Ocimeae

                                      • Ocimum tenuiflorum - Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. Australia
                                      • Coleus scutellarioides -
                                      • Coleus scutellarioides - Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. Australia

                                      Subfamily Prostantheroideae
                                      Tribe Westringieae

                                      • Prostanthera rotundifolia - Tasmania
                                      • Westringia fruticosa - E. Australia

                                      Lecythidaceae

                                        Subfamily Barringtonioideae

                                        • Barringtonia racemosa - Kenya to S. Africa and W. Pacific

                                        Lentibulariaceae

                                        • Utricularia dichotoma - E, SE. & SW. Australia
                                        • Utricularia gibba - Trop. & Subtrop. Old World, America
                                        • Utricularia magna - western Australia

                                        Lycopodiaceae

                                          Subfamily Huperzioideae

                                          • Phlegmariurus phlegmarioides - Queensland, New Caledonia, Moluccas, Fiji
                                          • Phlegmariurus squarrosus - Indomalaysia
                                          • Phlegmariurus squarrosus var. hippuroides - Peninsular Malaysia, Queensland

                                          Malpighiaceae

                                          • Tristellateia australasiae - southeast Asia to New Caledonia

                                          Malvaceae

                                            Subfamily Malvoideae
                                            Tribe Gossypieae

                                            • Thespesia populnea - Old World tropics, naturalized in New World

                                            Subfamily Malvoideae
                                            Tribe Hibisceae

                                            • Hibiscus tilliaceus - pantropical
                                            • Lagunaria patersonia - e. Australia, Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is.

                                            Subfamily Sterculioideae
                                            Tribe Sterculieae

                                            • Brachychiton rupestris - Northern Australia, Queensland, New South Wales

                                            Marsileaceae

                                            • Marsilea drummondii - Australia

                                            Meliaceae

                                              Subfamily Melioideae
                                              Tribe Melieae

                                              • Melia azedarach - Asia, nat. in trop. America

                                              Menyanthaceae

                                              • Nymphoides indica - Australia
                                              • Ornduffia reniformis - Australia

                                              Moraceae

                                                Subfamily
                                                Tribe Ficeae

                                                • Ficus destruens - Queensland, Australia
                                                • Ficus rubiginosa variegata - Australia, New South Wales

                                                Myrtaceae

                                                  Subfamily Myrtoideae
                                                  Tribe Eucalypteae

                                                  • Corymbia citriodora - Queensland to NE. New South Wales
                                                  • Corymbia eximia nana -
                                                  • Eucalyptus globulus - New South Wales to Tasmania
                                                  • Eucalyptus kitsoniana - southeastern Victoria, Australia

                                                  Subfamily Myrtoideae
                                                  Tribe Leptospermeae

                                                  • Kunzea ambigua - eastern Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)

                                                  Subfamily Myrtoideae
                                                  Tribe Melaleuceae

                                                  • Callistemon citrinus - Australia - Qld, NSW, Vic
                                                  • Callistemon linearis - Australia - New South Wales
                                                  • Calothamnus quadrifidus - south-west of Western Australia
                                                  • Melaleuca armillaris - Australia

                                                  Nephrolepidaceae

                                                  • Nephrolepis obliterata 'Kimberly Queen' - northeastern Australia

                                                  Ophioglossaceae

                                                    Subfamily Ophioglossoideae

                                                    • Ophioglossum pendulum - Madagascar, tropical Asia, Australia

                                                    Orchidaceae

                                                      Subfamily Epidendroideae
                                                      Tribe Coelogyneae

                                                      • Pholidota imbricata - Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to SW. Pacific

                                                      Subfamily Epidendroideae
                                                      Tribe Collabieae

                                                      • Phaius tankervilleae - India to East Asia and Pacific
                                                      • Phaius tankervilleae var. alba - Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to S. Pacific

                                                      Subfamily Epidendroideae
                                                      Tribe Dendrobieae

                                                      • Bulbophyllum longiflorum - Uganda to NE. KwaZulu-Natal, W. Indian Ocean, Malesia to Pacific
                                                      • Dendrobium bifalce - Lesser Sunda Is. to Solomon Is.
                                                      • Dendrobium bigibbum - Australia, New Guinea
                                                      • Dendrobium kingianum - eastern Australia - Queensland & NSW
                                                      • Dendrobium rigidum - New Guinea to N. Queensland
                                                      • Dendrobium speciosum var. hillii - SE. Queensland to CE. New South Wales
                                                      • Dendrobium speciosum var. pedunculatum - New Guinea to NE. Queensland
                                                      • Dendrobium wassellii - Australia - Queensland
                                                      • Dendrobium x delicatum - E. Australia

                                                      Subfamily Epidendroideae
                                                      Tribe Malaxideae

                                                      • Liparis condylobulbon - Taiwan, Indo-China to SW. Pacific

                                                      Subfamily Epidendroideae
                                                      Tribe Vandeae

                                                      • Sarcochilus hartmannii - Australia

                                                      Osmundaceae

                                                      • Todea barbara - Australia, New Zealand, South Africa

                                                      Philydraceae

                                                      • Philydrum lanuginosum - Australia

                                                      Phrymaceae

                                                      • Glossostigma cleistanthum - Australia, New Zealand, India, East Africa W/C

                                                      Poaceae

                                                        Subfamily Panicoideae
                                                        Tribe Paniceae

                                                        • Oplismenus hirtellus 'Variegatus' - widely distributed in tropics

                                                        Polypodiaceae

                                                          Subfamily Microsoroideae

                                                          • Goniophlebium subauriculatum - North India, China, Malaysia, New Guinea, Australia
                                                          • Microsorum punctatum "Grandiceps" - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Australia, Polynesia
                                                          • Microsorum scandens - Australia & New Zealand

                                                          Subfamily Platycerioideae

                                                          • Platycerium veitchii - Northeastern Australia

                                                          Proteaceae

                                                            Subfamily Grevilleoideae
                                                            Tribe Banksieae

                                                            • Banksia hookeriana - western Australia
                                                            • Banksia serrata - se Australia

                                                            Subfamily Grevilleoideae
                                                            Tribe Embothrieae

                                                            • Grevillea leucopteris - southwestern Australia
                                                            • Hakea suaveolens - Australia - Western Australia.
                                                            • Lomatia myricoides - southeast Australia
                                                            • Stenocarpus sinuatus - Queensland, Australia

                                                            Pteridaceae

                                                              Subfamily Cheilanthoideae

                                                              • Pellaea rotundifolia - Australia, New Zealand

                                                              Subfamily Pteridoideae

                                                              • Pteris ensiformis - China, Indomalaysia, Queesnland Australia

                                                              Restionaceae

                                                              • Baloskion tetraphyllum - SE. Queensland to SE. Australia W/C

                                                              Rubiaceae

                                                                Subfamily Cinchonoideae
                                                                Tribe Naucleeae

                                                                • Nauclea orientalis - Trop. Asia to N. Australia

                                                                Subfamily Rubioideae
                                                                Tribe Psychotrieae

                                                                • Hydnophytum aff. moseleyanum - Phillipines: Mindanao
                                                                • Hydnophytum moseleyanum - New Guinea W/C
                                                                • Hydnophytum moseleyanum - Indomalaysia
                                                                • Myrmecodia beccarii - Australia (endemic)
                                                                • Myrmecodia platytyrea - New Guinea
                                                                • Myrmecodia platytyrea - Australia: Queensland: Mossman Gorge
                                                                • Myrmecodia platytyrea ssp. antoinii - Papua New Guinea to N. Queensland
                                                                • Myrmecodia tuberosa - Borneo - Bako National Park
                                                                • Myrmecodia tuberosa 'armata' - Malaya
                                                                • Myrmecodia tuberosa 'dahlii' - New Guinea

                                                                Sapindaceae

                                                                  Subfamily Sapindoideae

                                                                  • Alectryon coriaceus - Australia

                                                                  Scrophulariaceae

                                                                    Subfamily
                                                                    Tribe Myoporeae

                                                                    • Eremophila debilis - Australia

                                                                    Stylidiaceae

                                                                      Subfamily Stylidioideae

                                                                      • Stylidium adnatum var. adnatum - western Australia
                                                                      • Stylidium caespitosum - Australia: Grampians, Victoria
                                                                      • Stylidium debile - Australia
                                                                      • Stylidium graminifolium - Australia
                                                                      • Stylidium productum - Australia W/C

                                                                      Taccaceae

                                                                      • Tacca leontopetaloides - Trop. Old World to Pacific

                                                                      Typhaceae

                                                                      • Typha orientalis - Mongolia to Philippines, Australasia

                                                                      Urticaceae

                                                                        Subfamily
                                                                        Tribe Urticeae

                                                                        • Dendrocnide moroides - Australia, Vanuatu, Indonesia

                                                                        Violaceae

                                                                        • Viola banksii - eastern Australia
                                                                        • Viola hederacea - Australia - Victoria and Tasmania

                                                                        Zamiaceae

                                                                          Subfamily Encephalartoideae
                                                                          Tribe Encephalarteae

                                                                          • Lepidozamia peroffskyana - SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales

                                                                          Zingiberaceae

                                                                            Subfamily Zingiberoideae
                                                                            Tribe Globbeae

                                                                            • Globba marantina - China (S. Yunnan) to Trop. Asia, Queensland (Murray I.) W/C
                                                                            • Globba marantina - China (S. Yunnan) to Trop. Asia, Queensland (Murray I.) W/C
                                                                            The EEB Greenhouses are currently cultivating 170 accessions native to Australia

                                                                            W/C = Wild Collected
                                                                            = Currently Flowering
                                                                            = Image(s) Available
                                                                            = map available for this accession

                                                                            data regenerated on Fri, 09 May 2025 02:09:08 -0400

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