Census of the Queensland Flora 2010 - Department of Environment ...

INTRODUCTION
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This publication provides an authoritative published list of all the known native and naturalised species of plants,
algae and lichens in Queensland, updated from the previous listing (Bostock & Holland 2007). It does not include fungi
other than lichens. The census will be available as Adobe Acrobat files on the Department of Environment and
Resource Management (DERM) website.
Native and naturalised status as used in this document and at the Queensland Herbarium are given below.
Cultivated records of native or naturalised species are not included in this document. Non-native species that are
considered to be doubtfully naturalised are listed in Appendix 1. Non-native species that were once considered to be
naturalised or doubtfully naturalised but have since disappeared from the flora are listed in Appendix 2. Flora statistics
are provided in Appendix 3.
The records listed in this publication are primarily based on the Queensland Herbarium specimen collections (BRI)
representing 240 years of verified identifications and distributional data. The list for vascular plants has been generated
principally from the Queensland Herbarium specimen label information database (HERBRECS) as of 1 st July 2010.
The lists for mosses, liverworts, hornworts, algae and lichens are based on existing incomplete records from specimens
and on published accounts of species that are definitely known to occur in Queensland but are not necessarily
represented by a specimen at the Queensland Herbarium.
Queensland legislation citing this publication as the primary source of nomenclature usage includes the Nature
Conservation Act 1992, Vegetation Management Act 1999 and the Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route
Management) Act 2002.
PRESENTATION
Each taxon is listed alphabetically under the family name (or group name for algae) as currently accepted by the
Queensland Herbarium. The taxon name is preceded by the conservation status (X, E, V or N) or the naturalisation
indicator (*) where applicable. Subspecies, varieties or forms are included where these have been identified and
accepted. Where taxa are recognised but not yet formally described, a temporary phrase name is provided e.g.
Tephrosia sp. (Barkly Downs S.L.Everist 3384).
The districts used in this listing are the Pastoral Districts of Queensland as outlined on maps issued by the onetime
Survey Office of the Department of Natural Resources, Brisbane, based on State Map 4a.
For the vascular plants, Pastoral district acronyms with specimen count for the Queensland Herbarium collections
(given in brackets) are listed on the next line, and then the region acronyms(s) also with specimen count are listed
where applicable. For mosses, liverworts, hornworts, ‘algae’, cyanobacteria and lichens the listing includes only the
names of the districts or regions where a taxon is known to occur, reflecting the current incompleteness of our specimen
records for these organisms.
Names of native taxa known to occur in Queensland but represented only by verified specimen(s) held at other
herbaria, are annotated “no specimen in BRI” in lieu of a specimen count, or “all no specimen in BRI” where it follows
a list of district abbreviations. Names of native taxa known to occur in Queensland but represented only by specimen(s)
from cultivated plants of known source locality are annotated “ex-situ specimen(s) only in BRI”. Queensland native
plants that have become naturalised in a pastoral district outside their native range are indicated by an * preceding the
specimen count e.g. “MO(*1)”. Records that cannot be assigned to a Queensland district are recorded as “QLD”, with
appropriate specimen count, in the regions section.
TAXON AND HIGHER LEVEL NAMES
The botanical names used in this document are those accepted for each taxon at the Queensland Herbarium as of 1 st
July 2010. These names comply with the rules of the current International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN)
(McNeill et al. 2006) and the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (Brickell et al. 2004). Author
abbreviations follow Brummitt and Powell (1992). Names at the level of Kingdom and Phylum follow Cavalier-Smith
(2004).
INVITATION TO READERS
This publication is a snapshot of the flora of Queensland, reflecting the current knowledge of names and
distribution of plants, algae and lichens in the State of Queensland. Readers are earnestly requested to bring any errors
or omissions they discover to the attention of the editors, in writing or by email, so that entries can be corrected.
Readers are also encouraged to send specimens to the Queensland Herbarium to fill obvious gaps in distributions
recorded for Queensland, or improve the representation of a particular species in an area. The number of specimens
currently held at the Queensland Herbarium for each taxon is indicated under each name in this listing. For information
on how to collect specimens, you are encouraged to download the booklet Collecting and preserving plant specimens, a
manual from the Herbarium’s website (http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/wildlife-ecosystems/plants/queensland_herbarium).