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Collection Holdings native to Queensland:

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 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 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

            Arecaceae

            • Linospadix palmerianus - Australia (northeast Queensland)

            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

              Austrobaileyaceae

              • Austrobaileya scandens - Queensland (Cook, North Kennedy)

              Bignoniaceae

                Subfamily
                Tribe Tecomeae

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

                Byblidaceae

                • Byblis liniflora - northern Australia, New Guinea

                Calycanthaceae

                • Idiospermum australiense - Australia

                Casuarinaceae

                • Allocasuarina luehmannii - E. & SE. Australia
                • Casuarina cunninghamiana - Australia, eastern & northern
                • Casuarina glauca - Australia - narrowly defined along eastern coast

                Centrolepidaceae

                  Subfamily
                  Tribe Centrolepideae

                  • Centrolepis strigosa - Australia W/C

                  Ceratophyllaceae

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

                  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 brevifolia - Trop. & Subtrop.
                      • 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 pygmaea - S. & E. Australia, New Zealand W/C
                      • Drosera spatulata ssp. lovellae - SE. China to Japan and New Zealand W/C

                      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 longifolia subsp. sophorae - southeastern Australia - Queensland to Tasmania

                          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

                          Hypoxidaceae

                          • Molineria capitulata - tropical Asia & Australia

                          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

                            • 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

                              Lycopodiaceae

                                Subfamily Huperzioideae

                                • 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

                                  Meliaceae

                                    Subfamily Melioideae
                                    Tribe Melieae

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

                                    Menyanthaceae

                                    • Ornduffia reniformis - Australia

                                    Myrtaceae

                                      Subfamily Myrtoideae
                                      Tribe Eucalypteae

                                      • Corymbia citriodora - Queensland to NE. New South Wales

                                      Subfamily Myrtoideae
                                      Tribe Melaleuceae

                                      • Callistemon linearis - Australia - New South Wales

                                      Nephrolepidaceae

                                      • Nephrolepis obliterata 'Kimberly Queen' - northeastern 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

                                        Poaceae

                                          Subfamily Panicoideae
                                          Tribe Paniceae

                                          • Oplismenus hirtellus 'Variegatus' - widely distributed in tropics

                                          Polypodiaceae

                                            Subfamily Microsoroideae

                                            • Microsorum punctatum "Grandiceps" - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Australia, Polynesia

                                            Proteaceae

                                              Subfamily Grevilleoideae
                                              Tribe Embothrieae

                                              • Stenocarpus sinuatus - Queensland, 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 - Indomalaysia
                                                • Hydnophytum moseleyanum - New Guinea W/C
                                                • 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

                                                Scrophulariaceae

                                                  Subfamily
                                                  Tribe Myoporeae

                                                  • Eremophila debilis - Australia

                                                  Stylidiaceae

                                                    Subfamily Stylidioideae

                                                    • Stylidium debile - Australia
                                                    • Stylidium graminifolium - Australia

                                                    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

                                                      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 115 accessions native to Queensland

                                                          W/C = Wild Collected
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