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Endemic flora of Australia

This list has 16 sub-lists and 642 members. See also Vegetation of Australia, Flora of Australia, Endemic flora by country
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  • Epipremnum amplissimum
    Epipremnum amplissimum species of plant
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    Epipremnum amplissimum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Epipremnum, native to Southeast Asia, from New Guinea to Vanuatu including northern Australia.
  • Elaeocarpus stellaris species of plant
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    Elaeocarpus stellaris is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland. It is a tree, sometimes with buttress roots at the base of the trunk, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, small groups of flowers with greenish-yellow sepals and creamy-white petals, the fruit containing a five-flanged stone.
  • Dissocarpus paradoxus
    Dissocarpus paradoxus species of plant
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    Dissocarpus paradoxus is a shrub species of inland Australia, also known by the common names of cannonball burr or curious saltbush.
  • Hakea
    Hakea genus of plants
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    Hakea (HAH-kee-ə, HAY-) is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to Australia. They are shrubs or small trees with leaves that are sometimes flat, otherwise circular in cross section in which case they are sometimes divided. The flowers are usually arranged in groups in leaf axils and resemble those of other genera, especially Grevillea. Hakeas have woody fruit which distinguishes them from grevilleas which have non-woody fruit which release the seeds as they mature. Hakeas are found in every state of Australia with the highest species diversity being found in the south west of Western Australia.
  • Macadamia
    Macadamia genus of plants
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    Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees in the flowering plant family Proteaceae. They are indigenous to Australia, native to northeastern New South Wales and central and southeastern Queensland specifically. Two species of the genus are commercially important for their fruit, the macadamia nut (or simply macadamia). Global production in 2015 was 160,000 tonnes (180,000 short tons). Other names include Queensland nut, bush nut, maroochi nut, bauple nut and, in the US, they are also known as Hawaii nut. It was an important source of bushfood for the Aboriginal peoples.
  • Crowea
    Crowea genus of plants
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    Crowea is a genus of small evergreen shrubs in the family Rutaceae, sometimes known as waxflowers. There are three species and many subspecies and cultivars, all of which are popular as ornamentals because of their abundant, attractive flowers which often occur during autumn and winter. Crowea species are all endemic to Australia, where they occur in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.
  • Agonis
    Agonis genus of plants
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    Agonis is a genus of flowering plants in the plant family Myrtaceae. All are endemic to Western Australia, growing near the coast in the south west. Plants in the genus Agonis are shrubs or trees with bisexual flowers arranged in heads in leaf axils with 5 sepals and usually 5 white petals, each with 15 to 30 stamens arranged opposite the sepals, and the fruit a woody capsule.
  • Hexagonia vesparia
    Hexagonia vesparia species of fungus
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    Hexagonia vesparia, sometimes known as the wasp nest polypore, is a bracket fungus in the Polyporaceae family occurring mainly in tropical and coastal regions in Australia, but it has also been recorded in semi arid regions of Australia. The genus name came from the Latin word hexagonus meaning with six angles.
  • Platysace filiformis
    Platysace filiformis species of plant
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    Platysace filiformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or sprawling, perennial herb or shrub with flat, winged stems with few leaves and white or cream-coloured flowers arranged in compound umbels.
  • Triodia scintillans
    Triodia scintillans species of grass
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    Triodia scintillans, the sparkling spinifex, or salt and vinegar chips spinifex is a species of grass in the genus Triodia. It tastes like salt and vinegar potato chips.
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