Diagnostic woodland trees and shrubs of central Cape York Peninsula

| Home page | Trees and plants of Uw Olkola and Uw Oykangand land This is a genetic list of the trees and shrubs diagnostic of central Cape York Peninsula woodlands. The species are organised into families, and within families they are organised alphabetically by the scientific names. Click on the links in the list for more information about each species and images. Apocynaceae Alstonia actinophylla, milky tree or milkwood Arecaceae (palms) Livistona benthamii, tropical fan palm Livistona muelleri, dwarf fan palm Ptychosperma macarthurii, MacArthur palm Bixaceae Cochlospermum gillivraei, native kapok or native cotton tree Caesalpiniaceae (cassias) Erythrophleum chlorostachys, Cooktown ironwood Casuarinaceae (sheoaks) Allocasuarina littoralis, black sheoak Chrysobalanaceae Parinari nonda, nonda plum or nonda apple Combretaceae Terminalia pterocarya, wing-seeded terminalia Cycadaceae (cycads) Cycas media, nut palm/tree zamia Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) Croton arnhemicus, yellow tulipwood Neoroepera banksii Petalostigma banksii, quinine bush Petalostigma pubescens, quinine tree Fabaceae (pea family) Bossiaea bossiaeoides, cabbage tree Indigofera pratensis, Australian indigo or forest indigo Lamprolobium fruticosum Lecythidaceae Planchonia careya, cocky apple Melastomaceae (melastome family) Melastoma affine, native lasiandra Mimosaceae (wattles) Acacia albizioides Acacia armillata Acacia armitii Acacia aulacocarpa, brown salwood or hickory wattle Acacia auriculiformes, ear pod wattle or black wattle Acacia bidwelli, corkwood wattle Acacia brassi Acacia calyculata Acacia crassicarpa, northern wattle Acacia decora, showy wattle or pretty wattle Acacia ditricha, fish poison tree Acacia farnesiana, sweet wattle, mimosa bush or prickly mimosa Acacia flavescens, yellow wattle Acacia fleckeri Acacia gallioides Acacia hammondii Acacia hemignosta, club-leaf wattle Acacia holosericea, soapy wattle or fish poison wattle Acacia humifusa Acacia hyaloneura Acacia julifera Acacia latescens Acacia lazaridis Acacia legnota Acacia leptocarpa Acacia leptoloba Acacia leptostachya, Townsville wattle or slender wattle Acacia mangium, sally wattle Acacia multisiliqua Acacia nesophila Acacia nilotica, prickly acacia Acacia ommatosperma Acacia oraria Acacia pennata Acacia platycarpa, ghost wattle Acacia polystachya Acacia pubirhachis Acacia racospermoides Acacia rothii Acacia shirleyi, fine-leafed lancewood Acacia simsii, Sims' wattle Acacia torulosa Acacia umbellata Acacia victoriae, elegant wattle or gundabluie Myrtaceae (myrtles: eucalypts, tea-trees and bottlebrushes) Asteromyrtus symphocarpa, manuka tree or liniment tree Eucalyptus acmenoides, white mahogany Eucalyptus acroleuca, a box eucalypt Eucalyptus brassiana, northern grey box, Cape York red gum or gum-topped peppermint Eucalyptus camaldulensis, river red gum Eucalyptus chlorophylla, glossy-leaved box Eucalyptus citriodora, lemon-scented gum Eucalyptus clarksoniana, bloodwood Eucalyptus cloeziana, gympie messmate Eucalyptus confertiflora, broad-leaved carbeen or cabbage gum Eucalyptus crebra, narrow-leaved ironbark or narrow-leaved red ironbark Eucalyptus cullenii, ironbark Eucalyptus curtipes Eucalyptus dichromophloia, variable-barked bloodwood, red bloodwood or small-fruited bloodwood Eucalyptus drepanophylla Eucalyptus erythrophloia Eucalyptus exserta, Queensland peppermint Eucalyptus greeniana Eucalyptus hylandii, gum-topped bloodwood Eucalyptus intermedia, pink bloodwood Eucalyptus leptophleba, molloy red box Eucalyptus microneura Eucalyptus microtheca, coolibah Eucalyptus nesophila, Melville Island bloodwood Eucalyptus novoguinensis Eucalyptus papuana, ghost gum Eucalyptus pellita, large-fruited red mohogany Eucalyptus persistens, a box eucalypt Eucalyptus phoenicea, scarlet gum Eucalyptus platyphylla, poplar gum or white gum Eucalyptus polycarpa, long-fruited bloodwood Eucalyptus resinifera Eucalyptus setosa, rough-leaved bloodwood Eucalyptus staigeriana Eucalyptus stockeri Eucalyptus tereticornis, forest red gum, blue gum or red irongum Eucalyptus tessellaris, carbeen or Moreton Bay ash Eucalyptus tetrodonta, Darwin stringybark or messmate Eucalyptus tokwa Eucalyptus torelliana, cadaghi Leptospermum madidum ssp. madidum, weeping tea-tree or whitewood Leptospermum purpurascens, purple-stemmed turkey-bush Lophostemon suaveolens, swamp mohogany Melaleuca acacioides Melaleuca argentea, silver-leaved paperbark Melaleuca bracteata, black tea-tree Melaleuca cajuputi, cajuput paperbark Melaleuca citrolens, lemon-scented paperbark Melaleuca dealbata, smelly paperbark, cloudy paperbark or soapy tea-tree Melaleuca foliolosa Melaleuca leucadendra, weeping paperbark or weeping tea-tree Melaleuca minutifolia, paperbark tea-tree Melaleuca nervosa, kerosene tea-tree Melaleuca saligna, willow paperbark Melaleuca stenostachya, straight tea-tree Melaleuca trichostachya Melaleuca viridiflora var., swampy tea-tree, broad-leaved paperbark or broad-leaved tea-tree Melaleuca viridiflora var., forest tea-tree, broad-leaved paperbark or broad-leaved tea-tree Neofabricia mjoebergii Neofabricia myrtifolia, antarra leptospermum Neofabricia sericisepala Syzygium eucalyptoides spp. eucalyptoides, white apple Syzygium eucalyptoides spp. bleeseri, white bush apple Syzygium suborbiculare, red bush apple Thryptomene oligandra Pandanaceae (pandanus family) Pandanus spiralis, pandanus Proteaceae (protea family: banksias, grevilleas, hakeas) Banksia dentata, old man banksia or tropical banksia Grevillea coriacea, fine-leafed beefwood or forest wax tree Grevillea glauca, bushmen's clothes peg Grevillea parallela, silver oak Grevillea pteridifolia, fern-leaved grevillea or honey wattle Grevillea striata, broad-leaved beefwood Hakea chordophylla, silky oak Hakea pendaculatum, hardwood Persoonia falcata, milky plum, nanchee or geebung Xylomelum scottianum, woody pear Rhamnaceae (buckthorn family) Alphitonia excelsa, red ash or soapy tree Alphitonia obtusifolia Morinda reticulata, Ada-A morinda Rubiaceae (madder family) Pogonolobus reticulatus, medicine bush Santalaceae (sandalwood family) Exocarpus latifolius, scrub cherry Santalum lanceolatum, sandalwood Sapindaceae (soapberry family) Dodonaea platyptera, native hop Dodonaea polyandra Sterculiaceae (kurrajongs and paper-flowers) Brachychiton diversifolius, northern kurrajong Brachychiton paradoxum, red-flowered kurrajong Sterculia quadrifida, monkeynut tree Xanthorrhoeaceae (grasstrees and mat-rushes) Lomandra banksii, clumping mat-rush Xanthorrhoea johnsonii, northern grasstree

This list is based on appendix 11 (p. 249) of Cape York Peninsula: a natural history by Dawn W. Frith and Clifford B. Frith (Reed, 1995). For the present purposes the list has been augmented with various woodland tree and shrub species not on the Frith & Frith list which were encountered on fieldwork and for which there are names in Oykangand, Olkola and Pakanh.

Other reference works consulted for this work include: Eucalyptus: an illustrated guide to identification, by Ian Brooker and David Kleinig (Reed, 1996); Native plants of northern Australia, by John Brock (Reed, 1993; first published in 1988 by the author as Top end native plants); Plants of central Queensland, by Eric Anderson (Queensland Department of Primary Industries, 1993); Bottlebrushes, paperbarks and tea trees, by John W. Wrigley and Murray Fagg (Angus and Robertson, 1993); Australian native plants, by A. M. Blombery (Angus and Robertson, 1967).