Ginger	Ferns	Orchids
Australian Maple Flindersia spp.	Black Bean Castanospermum australe	Bleeding Heart Omalanthus spp
Brown Silky Oak Darlingia darlingiana	Bumpy Satin-ashes Syzgium spp	Cassowary Plum Cerbera floribunda
Coffee Family Rubiaceeae	Cottonwood Hibiscus tiliaceus	Cunjevoi Alocasia brisbanensis
Dwarf Harpullia Harpullia frutescens	Fig Ficus spp.	Hairy Walnut Endiandra insignis
Lantana Lantana camara	Lawyer Vine Calamus muelleri	Leichhardt Tree Nauclea orientalis
Mistletoe Dendrophthoe falcata	Native Jasmine Jasminim spp.	Northern Silky Oak Cardwellia sublimis
October Glory Faradaya splendida	Paperbarks Melaleuca spp.	Pink-flowered Euodia Euodia elleryana
Quandongs Elaeocarpus spp.	Sarsaparilla Tree Alphitonia spp.	Singapore Daisy Family Asteraceae
Stinging Tree Dendrocnide moroides	Strangler Fig Ficus destruens	Umbrella Tree Schefflera actinophylla
Native Nutmeg Myristica insipida	Ribbonwood Idiospermum australiense	Tulip Oak Argydendron spp.
Native Walnuts/Laurels Family: Lauraceae	Common Pepper Piper caninum	Brown Kurrajong Commersonia batramia
Hairy Pittosporum Pittosporum rubigosum	Rose Butternut Blepharocarya involucrigera.	Pink Evodia Melicope elleryana
Shell Vine or Conch Vine Connarus conchocarpus	Plum Boxwood, Brown Pearwood Niemeyera prunifera	Chain Fruit Alyxia spp.
Milky Pine or Milkwood Alstonia spp.	Bolwarra Eupomatia spp.	Brown Gardenia Attractocarpus fitzalanii
Hairy Gardenia Attractocarpus hirta	Walking Stick Palms Linnospadix spp.	Climbing Pandan Freycinetia spp.
Pandanus Pandanus gemmifer	Elephant Ears Alocasia spp.	SuppleJack Flagellaria indica
Palm Lily Cordyline cannifolia	Striped Cucumber Diplocyclos palmatus

Plants of the Australian tropical rainforest

• Plants are the most obvious of life forms to the casual visitor to the Australian tropical rainforest; indeed, for many people this may be initially all they can see.

• While they vary enormously, most are linked by their ability to make their own food through the use of sunlight in a reaction known as 'photosynthesis', which occurs through the most familiar of plant parts, the green leaf.

• The tropical rainforests of the Wet Tropics are the richest area of Australia for plant diversity.

• There are at least 1160 species of higher plants recorded from the north-eastern Queensland rainforests, with new species being named every year.

• The region has also been recognized for it's high endemism; that is many of the species here are found nowhere else.

• The bewildering array of forms of the rainforest is presented here in groups according to standard understanding of evolutionary order, that is, with the primitive plants at the beginning, then 'progressing' through to the flowering plants.

Script: Courtesy of  Damon Ramsey BSc.(Zool) Biologist Guide