Flora and Fauna of Tasmania
Broom Spurge
Amperea xiphoclada (Broom Spurge) is a plant species in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Australia. It is an erect, rigid shrub growing to between 20 and 90 cm high and is usually leafless in its mature form. Small flowers appear in sessile clusters or on pedicels. The species occurs on sandy soils within forest, woodland and heath in South Australia, Tasmania, ...more ↓
Bossiaea cinerea
Bossiaea cinerea, commonly known as Showy Bossiaea, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae. It is a hairy-stemmed shrub growing up to 2 m in height and spread. Its triangular, stalkless leaves are alternate, opposite or whorled and 5–20 mm long. Its red and yellow pea flowers are 7–12 mm long and grow singly along the stems; the seed pods are ovate to ...more ↓
Cassytha glabella
Cassytha glabella, commonly known as the Slender Devil's Twine, is a common twining plant of the Laurel family, found in many of the moister parts of Australia. A hemi-parasitic climber. The specific epithet glabella is from Latin, referring to the lack of hairs. The fruit are sweet and mucousy to taste. The Devil's Twine (Cassytha pubescens) and Cassytha ...more ↓
Devil's Twine
Cassytha pubescens the Devil's Twine is a common twining plant of the Laurel family, in southern and eastern Australia. A hemi-parasitic climber.
Clematis microphylla
Clematis microphylla (Small-leaved Clematis) is one of 8 Clematis species native to Australia. It occurs in all states and the ACT, but not in the Northern Territory.
Dillwynia sericea
Dillwynia sericea is a small shrub in the pea family found across southeastern Australia.
Daviesia ulicifolia
Daviesia ulicifolia, commonly known as Gorse Bitter Pea, is a spiny shrub species in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Australia. It grows to 2 metres and has yellow and red pea flowers, produced between May and January in the species native range.
Hibbertia prostrata
Hibbertia prostrata, commonly known as Bundled Guinea-flower, is a small shrub that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It grows to 50 cm tall and has narrow leaves that are about 20 mm long and about 1 mm wide. Yellow flowers appear from September to December in the species native range. The species occurs in heath in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.
Hymenanthera dentata
Melicytus dentatus (tree violet) is a shrub that is native to south-east Australia. It grows up to 4 metres high and has branchlets that are often armed with spines and have leaves that are 5 to 50 mm long and sometimes toothed. The flowers appear in spring and summer and are pale yellow, 3 to 5 mm in length, and have petals that are recurved at the tips. These are ...more ↓
Leucophyta brownii
Leucophyta is a plant genus which is endemic to Australia. The genus was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in 1817.
Persoonia juniperina
Persoonia juniperina, commonly known as the prickly geebung, is a shrub native to New South Wales in eastern Australia. It was first collected in Tasmania, and described by French naturalist Jacques Labillardière in 1805. Within the genus Persoonia, P. juniperina is classified in the lanceolata group, a group of 54 closely related species with similar ...more ↓
Platylobium triangulare
Platylobium triangulare , commonly known as Ivy Flat-pea, is a shrub species that is endemic to Australia. It is a member of the family Fabaceae and of the genus Platylobium. The species was formally described in 1812 by botanist Robert Brown in Hortus Kewensis. The type specimen was collected in Tasmania by Brown.
Platylobium obtusangulum
Platylobium obtusangulum (Common Flat-pea) is a shrub that is endemic to Australia . It is a member of the family Fabaceae and of the genus Platylobium.
Pultenaea tenuifolia
Pultenaea tenuifolia , commonly known as the slender bush-pea, is a plant which is endemic to Australia. It is a procumbent shrub found in coastal areas of southern Australia and Tasmania with sandy and limestone soils. It has red and yellow flowers.
Seaberry Saltbush
Chenopodium candolleanum (Syn. Rhagodia candolleana), common name Seaberry Saltbush, is a shrub in the Chenopodiaceae family, native to Australia.
Stackhousia monogyna
Stackhousia monogyna, commonly known as Creamy Stackhousia or Creamy Candles, is a perennial herb species in the family Celastraceae. It is native to Australia. Plants grow to 70 cm (28 in) high and produce a terminal spike of white, cream or yellow flowers between August and January in the species native range.
Goodenia lanata
Goodenia lanata is a prostrate herb that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is known as Trailing Goodenia in Victoria and Native Primrose in Tasmania. Plants grow up to 10 cm high and have obovate leaves that are about 6 cm long and 2 cm wide. Five-petalled yellow flowers appear between November and February in the species native range. The species was first ...more ↓
Hemichroa pentandra
Hemichroa pentandra, commonly known as Trailing Hemichroa, Trailing Saltstar or Trailing Jointweed, is a prostrate perennial herb in the amaranth family. It is endemic to Australia. A succulent halophyte, it grows to about 10 cm in height and 30 cm wide. It has tiny, inconspicuous white flowers, surrounded by papery bracts, which grow in the angle between ...more ↓
Hibbertia aspera
Hibbertia aspera, commonly known as Rough Guinea Flower, is a small shrub that is native to Australia. It grows to 60 cm high and has yellow flowers which appear in summer.
Hibbertia sericea
Hibbertia sericea, or Silky Guinea-flower, is a species of small perennial shrub, in the family Dilleniaceae, that is endemic to Australia. It has small yellow five-petalled flowers 2 centimetres (0.8 in) to 3 centimetres (1.2 in) across.
Lasiopetalum baueri
Lasiopetalum baueri, commonly known as slender velvet bush, is a common shrub of the mallow family. It was first described by Joachim Steetz in 1806. It was named for the 19th century botanical artists Ferdinand and Frederick Bauer.
Mazus pumilio
Mazus pumilio, the Swamp Mazus, is an plant in the Phrymaceae family. This plant is also sometimes placed in the Scrophulariaceae family.
Pimelea humilis
Pimelea humilis (Common Riceflower) is a shrub in the family Thymelaeaceae, native to Australia. It grows up to 0.5 metres in height. Flowerheads have 12 to 52 whitish flowers that are either female or bisexual. The leaves are 5 to 15 mm long and 2 to 8 mm wide.
Pomaderris oraria
Pomaderris oraria, commonly known as Bassian Pomaderris, is a shrub species native to the states of Victoria and Tasmania in Australia.
Sarcocornia quinqueflora
Sarcocornia quinqueflora, commonly known as Beaded Samphire, Bead weed, Beaded Glasswort or Glasswort, is a species of succulent halophytic coastal shrub. It occurs in wetter coastal areas of Australia and New Zealand.
Stylidium perpusillum
Stylidium perpusillum, the tiny triggerplant, is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae), that occurs in south west Western Australia.
Pale Grass Lily
Caesia parviflora, the pale grass lily, is a species of flowering plant in the Xanthorrhoeaceae native to Australia.
Pheladenia deformis
Pheladenia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. The sole species is Pheladenia deformis.
Cyrtostylis reniformis
Cyrtostylis reniformis, commonly known as Small Gnat-orchid, is a species of orchid from Australia.
Distichlis distichophylla
Distichlis distichophylla is a species of grass commonly known as Australian Salt-grass, Emu Grass or Pineapple Grass. It is a dioecious perennial plant that grows to about 30 cm in height, with creeping rhizomes up to 1 m long. It is coarse and prickly, growing in damp, saline areas such as the fringes of saltmarshes. It often forms mats where water is ...more ↓
