Saline levels vary extensively from high in the mountains with high rainfall where epiphytic plants grow in the absence of salt to the oceans and desert areas where the salinity may be far greater than that of normal sea water.
Where the salt tolerance of a species is unknown we have taken into account other known plants that the specific plant is known to grow with and have used that as a guide. We have erred on the side of caution there fore some plants may in fact be more tolerant of salts than we have indicated. For example we know that Atriplex nummularia grows in extreme saline conditions and that Ptilotus exaltus grow side by side in many areas. We have erred on caution and placed Ptilotus exaltus under very saline soils, because of the wide soil variation of Atriplex nummularia and Ptilotus exaltus. The act is Ptilotus exaltus maybe more tolerant of salt than we have allowed for.
Citrus trees are salt sensitive and growth is severely inhibited with salinity levels over 400 Ecgw (mS/m) parts per million or 1.6dS/m.
Most Australian trees and shrubs are considered non saline to moderately saline sensitive. Be cautioned some plants categorized under a bracket may in fact be better placed below that catagory. Corymbia citriodora is rated at 2dS/m to 4.1dS/m which includes it within the non saline top end to moderately saline soils bottom end. As can be seen this is just inside the non saline category at the lower end of the scale while at the same time this is very low moderate at the upper end of the scale.
Other plants tolerances will vary on the type of soil they are growing in. Atriplex amnicola though its tolerances are rated at extreme the variation is from 25dS/m to 50dS/m on alkaline duplex soils, and up to 38dS/m on medium to heavy clays.
Other variations vary on the plant genes themselves with plants in one area being quite tolerant while plants naturally growing in another area have rather low tolerances.
Soil moisture content will also have an effect on the plants tolerances for optimum growth with saline levels increasing in driersoils and decreasing as the moisture level increases. Assuming that rain water is the only variable in the soil moisture variations.
ECe (dS/m) | ECe (mS/m) | Ecgw (mS/m) | EM-38 hor (mS/m) | NaCl (sol. mmol/litre) | EC1:5 (w/v)1 loam (mS/m) approx. | EC1:5 (v/v)2 loam (mS/m) approx. | |
Soil (a) | Soil (b) | Water (c) | ‘Soil’ (d) | Water (e) | Soil | (f) | |
Non-saline | <2 | <200 | 0<500 | <50 | <20 | <20 | <40 |
Slightly | 2-4 | 200-400 | 500-1000 | 50-100 | 20-40 | 20-40 | 40-80 |
Moderately | 4-8 | 400-800 | 1 000-2 000 | 100-150 | 40-80 | 40-80 | 80-160 |
Very | 8-16 | 800-1 600 | 2 000-3 000 | 150-200 | 80-160 | 80-160 | 160-320 |
Extremely | >16 | >1 600 | >3 000 | >200 | >160 | >160 |
The salt levels around the coast of Australia will change, based on how much water evaporates and how much river water enters the environment. Coastal land formations and ocean currents will have a lesser affect on the salinities but still play an important function in many areas. Salt water that contains sea life must contain an appropriate amount of salt whether it is Sodium chloride (Table salt) or other chlorides. Normal sea water around the Australian coast varies from less than 20,000 parts per million at the outer edge of the Clarence River delta and can rise to saline levels of 35,000 parts per million (3.5mm pure salt by weight) during drought conditions off shore away from the deltas. Where there are enclosed harbours with high evaporation levels similar to what occurs in Sharks Bay Western Australia, the water can be over 40,000 parts per million salts and will still support most ecosystems. You can easily measure the salinity of sea/ocean water using an instrument called a refractometer, which measures the index of refraction of a particular substance. It is a device used in geology, medicine and agriculture.
Non saline sites are considered to be less than (<)499 parts of salt per million.
Slightly saline sites are considered to be from 500 to 999 parts of salt per million.
Moderately saline sites are considered to be from 1,000 to 1,999 parts of salt per million.
Very saline sites are considered to be from 2,000 to 2,999 parts of salt per million.
Extremely saline sites are considered to be greater than (>)3,000 parts of salt per million.
Plants in Colour under comments have been tested by us in the field in what we considered average conditions for that plant.Estimated salinities using similar environments & habitats, Plant associations with growing with other plants where the salinity tolerances of those plants were known, Epiphytes and lithophytes were taken as non saline away from the coast or slightly saline close to the coast where they may be affected by salt laden winds.
Colour Code:
Deep Blue– Shrubs
Purple– Trees
Pale Green – Vines & Creepers
Orange – Annuals, Perennials & Herbs
Pale Blue– Submerged & emergent Plants both fresh and saline.
Pink – Orchids
Brown – Grasses & Reeds
Deep Green – Ferns & Mosses
Deep Grey – Lilies & Palms
Red – Insectivorous Plants & Parasitic
Verdant Green – Succulents
Extreme Saline soils.
Proper Name | Comments |
Acacia floribunda | All sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia longifolia sub sp. sophorae | Coastal Wattle Accumulated sands behind the frontal dunes. |
Acacia stenophylla | Cooba River, River Myall River. |
Acronychia laevis | Accumulated sands near tidal estuaries. |
Acrostichum speciosum | Accumulated sands & alluviums near tidal estuaries and mangroves. |
Aegiceras corniculatum | Accumulated sands, alluvium deposits near tidal estuaries. |
Agonis flexuosa | Accumulated sands near tidal estuaries and back dunes. |
Aponogeton elongatus | River, creek and estuary deep silts. |
Atriplex rhagodioides | Saltbush. Coastal frontal dunes. |
Atriplex amnicola | River saltbush. Reports tolerance to 25-50 dS/m on alkaline duplex soils, and up to 38 dS/m on medium to heavy clays. |
Atriplex cinerea | Grey saltbush. |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man saltbush. Hot dry clay pans. |
Avicennia marina | Grey Mangrove. Grows on mudflats & river estuaries. |
Barringtonia acutangula | Along river estuaries on heavier alluviums. |
Barringtonia asiatica | Along river estuaries on heavier alluviums. |
Barringtonia calyptrate | Along river estuaries on heavier alluviums. |
Baumea juncea | Most alluvial soils. |
Billbardia heterophylla | Sandy clays to medium clays derived from most bedrocks. |
Blechnum indicum | Most soils from sand to heavy clays especially swampy alluviums. |
Brachyscome iberidifolia | Most soils from sand to heavy clays including salt pans. |
Bruguiera gymnorhiza | Most soils silt sediments to heavy water logged clays in estuarine intertidal zones. |
Carex pumila | Medium clays to heavy clays. |
Casuarina glauca | River estuaries on all sediment deposits. |
Carpobrotus glaucesens | Accumulated sands. |
Carpobrotus virescens | Accumulated sands. |
Casuarina equistifolia sub sp. incana | Accumulated beach sands. |
Cerbera floribunda | All soil types. |
Cerbera manghas | All soil types. |
Cocos nucifera | Sandy accumulated sands basaltic sands and coral sands. |
Crinum pedunculata | Grows along river estuaries |
Cupaniopsis anachariodes | Sand to peaty sands. |
Cynanchum carnosum | Coral sands to heavy gritty alluvial silts. |
Cyperus laevigatus | Most sandy soils derived from accumulated sands. |
Dichelachne micrantha | Sandy loams to heavy clays. |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Most well drained sandy loams to light clays or silts |
Excoecaria agallocha | Mangrove sediments. |
Ficinia nodosa | Accumulated sands or peaty sands. |
Fimbristylis dichotoma | All types of soils in all types of terrain. |
Fimbristylis ferruginea | Sandy soils to sandy loams. |
Fimbristylis polytrichoides | Soils from sandstone or accumulated sands |
Fimbristylis tristachya | Soils from sandstone or accumulated sands |
Fimbristylis velata | Soils from sandstone or accumulated sands |
Flindersia shottiana | Soils from sandstone or accumulated sands |
Halophila ovalis | Coral sands & accumulated sands to fine silts. |
Halosarcia spp. | Samphire. Combined waterlogged and salt tolerance is particularly high. |
Hibiscus tiliaceus | Sandy loams to heavy silts. |
Intsia bijuga | Sandy loams to heavy silts. |
Ipomoea brasiliensis | Sandy loams to light silts. |
Juncus kraussii | Most wet sandy loams or at times to heavy silts. |
Juncus mollis | Most wet sandy loams or at times to heavy silts. |
Lepidospermum neesi | Accumulated peaty sands to medium silts. |
Leptospermum whitei | Accumulated peaty sands to medium silts. |
Livistona drudei | Most sandy loams to medium clays. |
Lobelia anceps | Most sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. |
Maireana brevifolia | Most sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. |
Melaleuca alsophila | Salt water Paperbark. Mangroves and estuaries. |
Melaleuca argentea | Silver Leaf Paperbark. Coastal estuaries & riparian. |
Melaleuca decora | Lemon Honey Myrtle. |
Melaleuca ericifolia | Swamp Paperbark |
Melaleuca lateriflora | Grows with Melaleuca uncinata and others. |
Melaeuca quinquinervia | Grows in fresh water to brackish estuaries. |
Melaleuca thyoides | |
Melaleuca uncinata | Broom Bush. Highly variable Taxon. |
Morinda citrifolia | Vomit Berry. Tidal estuaries. |
Mucuna gigantea | Sea Bean or Velvet Bean. Estuaries and back dunes. |
Najas marina | Fresh water to estuarine waterways. |
Oxalis rubens | Pure sand, peaty beach sands or light to medium silts. |
Pandanus lauterbachii | Northern Screw Palm. Coastal beaches and headlands. |
Pandanus monticola | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Pandanus solmslaubachii | Swamp Screw palm. Coastal beaches & headlands. |
Pandanus tectorius | Screw Palm. Coastal beaches & headlands. |
Peltophorum pterocarpum | Sandy loams to heavy silts. |
Pennantia cunninghamii | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. |
Phragmites australis | Peaty sands to medium clays & heavy silts. |
Pisonia grandis | Peaty sands to medium clays & heavy silts. |
Pisonia umbellifera | Peaty sands to medium clays & heavy silts. |
Ptychospermum macarthurii | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Rhagodia candolleana subsp. candolleana | Sandy loams to heavy silts. |
Rhizophora stylosa | Light silts to heavy clays on coastal estuaries. |
Rhodanthe chlorocephala sub sp. chlorocephala & sub sp. rosea | Light silts to heavy clays |
Ruppia maritima | Light silts to heavy silt, heavy mud. |
Sarcocornia quinqueflora subsp. quinqueflora | Combined salt and water logging tolerance is particularly high. |
Scaevola calandulacea | White & grey sand on frontal dunes. |
Schoenoplectus subulatus | White & coloured sands to sandy clay pans. |
Schoenoplectus validus | White & coloured sands to sandy clay pans. |
Schoenus nitens | Mud to medium silts. |
Sesbania cannabina | Light clays to heavy clays. |
Sesuvium portulacastrum | Accumulated beach sands and esturian alluviums. |
Spinifex sericeus | Accumulated sands. |
Sporadanthus caudatus | Sandy loams to heavy silts. |
Sporadanthus interruptus | Light clays to light silts. |
Sporobolus virginicus | Mud flats and sandy calcareous soils with peat & saline clay pans. |
Suaeda australis | Sandy loams, light gravelly clays to heavier gravelly silts. |
Swainsona villosa | Red sands to red sandy loams with lateritic stone. |
Terminalia arenicola | Marine sands and coral sands. |
Terminalia catappa | Marine sands, coral sands and basalts. |
Tetragonia tetragonioides | Sands to sandy loams or peaty sands behind the frontal dunes |
Thespesia populneoides | Sandy loams to heavy silts and mud. |
Triglochin striata | Sands to heavy silts and mud. |
Vitex rotundifolia | Accumulated sands and sandy loams and silts close to the coast along estuaries. |
Vitex trifolia | Accumulated sands and sandy loams and silts close to the coast along estuaries. |
Westringea cephalantha | Sandy loams to Medium clays. |
Zoysia macrantha | Sands to sandy loams light silts to heavy silts. |
Very Saline Soils
Proper name | Comments |
Abrus precatorius | Accumulated sands and peaty sands. |
Acacia echinula | Accumulated peaty sands & decomposed sands |
Acacia ligulata | Umbrella bush. |
Acacia longifolia subsp. longifolia | Sydney Golden Wattle. Most types of sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia mutabilis ssp. Stipulifera | |
Acacia pycantha | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Acacia salicina | Coobah, willow wattle. suckers and could be invasive. |
Acacia saligna | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Acacia sauveolens | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Acacia ulicifolia | Prickly Moses. Coastal frontal dunes to the western slopes & sandy plateaus. |
Acronychia imperforata | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Acronychia wilcoxiana | Better quality sandy soils to medium clays. |
Acrotriche aggregate | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. |
Aidia racemosa | Better quality peaty sand to medium clays. |
Aglaia argentea | Light to medium clay & light to heavy alluvial silts . |
Ajuga australis | Light to medium gritty clays. |
Alangium villosum | Light sandy clays to medium clays |
Albizia lebbeck | Most soil types and soil structures |
Alectyon coriaceus | Sandy loams. |
Aleurites moluccana | Medium clays derived from Basalt. |
Alloteropsis semialata | Most soil types. |
Alphitonia excelsa | Accumulated sands to medium clays. |
Alstonia spectabilis | Sands to medium clays and silt deposits. |
Alyxia ruscifolia | Accumulated sands to medium clays. |
Angophora costata | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Angophora floribunda | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Angophora robor | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Angophora subvelutina | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Angophora woodsiana | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Aotus ericoides | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Aotus lanigera | Peaty sands to sandy loams. |
Aotus subglauca | Peaty sands to sandy loams. |
Archontophoenix alexandra | Better quality accumulated sands to sandy loams. |
Archontophoenix cuninghammiana | Better quality sandy loams to heavy clays. |
Aristida vagans | Most types of sandy loams to medium clays. |
Arytera divaricata | Most types of better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Asparagus racemosus | Most types of better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Asteromyrtus brassii | Most types of lateritic sandy loams to medium clays. |
Atalaya salicifolia | Most types of lateritic sandy loams to heavy clays. |
Austromyrtus dulcis | Accumulated & decomposed sandstones. |
Austromyrtus tenuifolia | Most types decomposed sandstones. |
Austrostipa scabra | Most types decomposed sandstones. |
Banksia aemula | Accumulated beachfront sands. |
Banksia baxteri | Most types sands from decomposed sandstones to accumulated sands. |
Banksia blechnifolia | Most types decomposed sandstones. |
Banksia formosa | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. |
Banksia integrifolia subsp. compare & subsp. integrifolia | Accumulated sands to medium clays. |
Banksia serrata | Most types decomposed sandstones and accumulated sands. |
Banksia spinulosa | Sands to light fatty clays. |
Billbardia scandens | Sands to heavy clays. |
Blaumea mollis | All types of disturbed soils. |
Blechnum camfieldii | Peaty sandy soils to light clays derived from accumulated sands. |
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis | Most sandy loams to heavy silty clays deposited as alluviums.. |
Bossiaea ensata | Sandy soils derived from sandstone or accumulated sands. |
Bossiaea heterophylla | Sandy soils derived from sandstone or accumulated sands. |
Brachychiton aceriifolius | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Brachychiton bidwillii | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Brachychiton discolor | Better quality light clays. |
Brachychiton populaneus | Most light to medium clays with rock or gravel. |
Brachychiton rupestris | Most sandy loams to light gravelly clays. |
Brachyscome ciliaris | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Breynia oblongifolia | Better quality light clays to medium clays |
Bulbostylis barbata | Sandy soils to sandy loams and accumulated sands. |
Calandrinia pickeringii | Sandy soils to sandy loams and accumulated sands |
Callitris columellaris | Red sandy loams to light red gritty clays. |
Callitris glaucophylla | Red, orange and white sands to sandy loams. |
Callitris rhomboidea | White sand to shale. |
Calotis lappulacea | All soil types derived from all types of rock. |
Calytrix tetragona | Sandy soils derived from granite, sandstone and accumulated sands. |
Canavalia rosea | Accumulated sands on frontal dunes. |
Carax appressa | Clay loams to heavy alluvial silts and heavy clays. |
Casuarina cristata ssp. Cristata | Black oak, Belah. |
Casuarina cristata ssp. Pauper | Belah |
Casuarina equisetifolia | Horsetail she oak. Coastal estuaries and frontal dunes. |
Casuarina equisetifolia var. incana | Coastal She oak. Coastal estuaries and frontal dunes. |
Celtis paniculata | Most sandy loams to medium clays. |
Chamaecrista nomame | Sandy loams over laterite or limestone. |
Chamelaucium uncinatum | Sandy loams over laterite or limestone. |
Cheilanthes sieberi | Light clays to heavy clays. |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum | All types of soil structures. |
Chloanthes stoechadis | Course and fine sands derived from accumulated sands and granite or sandstone. |
Chloanthes stoechadis | Course and fine sands derived from accumulated sands and granite or sandstone. |
Chloris ventricosa | Cluggy podsolic and duplex soils. |
Clerodendrum tomentosum | Light to heavy silts and sandy loams to medium clays. |
Clerodendrum tomentosum | All types of soil structures. |
Cochlospermum fraseri | Sandy loams. |
Cochlospermum gillivraei | Sandy loams. |
Corymbia curtisii | Medium to heavy soils. |
Corymbia gummifera | Most types of sand soils. |
Corymbia tessellaris | Loamy soils to medium gritty clays. |
Craspedia canens | Sand to sandy loams derived from sandstone or granite. |
Craspedia variabilis | Sand to sandy loams derived from sandstone or granite. |
Crassula sieberiana | Most types of sand and sandy loams. |
Crinum uniflorum | Most alluviums. |
Crotalaria mitchellii | Accumulated sand to sandy loams. |
Cyclosorus dentata | Light clays to heavy clay soils. |
Cyclosorus interruptus | Light clays to heavy clay soils. |
Cyclophyllum longipetalum | Peaty to fatty sands to medium gritty or gravely clays. |
Cymbopogon refractus | Sandy alluviums to heavy clay alluviums. |
Cyperus eglobosus | Sandy loams to light clays to heavy clay soils. |
Cyperus exaltus | Sandy loams to light clays to heavy clay soils. |
Cyperus sphaeroideus | Sandy loams to light clays to heavy clay soils. |
Cyperus trinervis | Sandy loams, light clays to medium clay soils. |
Cyperus lucidus | Sandy loams, light clays to medium clay soils. |
Cyperus pilosus | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Cyperus polystachyos | Sandy loams to light clays fresh or stagnant water. |
Daviesia genistifolia | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Daviesia genistifolia | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Denhamia celastroides | Sandy loams to medium clays and sodic loams. |
Derris trifoliata | Gritty light clays to heavy silt clays. |
De smodium heterocarpon | Gritty sand to medium silt clays. |
Dianella congesta | Accumulated sands and coastal peaty sands. |
Dianella crinoides | Accumulated sands and alluvial flats on estuaries. |
Dianella longifolia | Most types of soils derived from most types of parent rocks. |
Dichelachne crinita | Most sandy soils derived from sandstone. |
Digitaria didactyla | Fatty sandy loams to course accumulated sands. |
Digitaria didactyla | Fatty sandy loams to course accumulated sands. |
Digitaria longiflora | Fatty sandy loams to light clays. |
Digitaria ramularis | Fatty sandy loams to light clays. |
Diplachne fusca | Most waterlogged sandy to heavy silty flats. |
Doodia aspera | Most sandy soils to medium clays. |
Doodia australis | Most sandy soils to medium clays. |
Doryanthes excelsa | Most sandy soils derived from sandstone. |
Drypetes deplanchei | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Dubosia myoporoides | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Echinopogon caespitosus | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Echinopogon intermedius | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Eclipta prostrata | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Einadia hastata | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Einadia nutans | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Einadia trigonos | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Eleocharis acuta | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Eleocharis cylindrostachys | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Elionurus citreus | Most sandy loams to accumulated sands and silts. |
Epaltes australis | Most types of sandy loams to heavy clays. |
Eragrostis interrupta | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays and medium silts. May even tolerate extremely saline conditions with references being made to marine habitat. |
Eragrostis leptostachya | Most types of deep sandy loams to medium clays. |
Eragrostis parviflora | Most types of sandy loams to medium clays. |
Eremochloa bimaculata | Most types of sandy loams to medium clays. |
Eremophila debilis | Most types of sandy loams to medium clays. |
Eremophila duttonii | Most types of sandy loams to light clays. |
Eremophila forresterii | Reddish sandy loams to medium red clays. |
Eremophila glabra | Most types of reddish sandy loams to medium clays. |
Eremophila maculata | Most types of sandy loams to light clays. |
Eriachne glabrata | Most types of sandy loams and coral sands. |
Eriachne pallascens | Most types of sandy loams and coral sands. |
Eriachne rara | Most types of sandy loams and coral sands. |
Eucalyptus campaspe | |
Eucalyptus goniantha | Deep sand to light clays derived from granite, lateritites or sandstone. |
Eucalyptus planchoniana | Most types of sand to sandy loams. |
Eucalyptus platyphylla | Sandy loams to medium clays & heavy silts. |
Eucalyptus robusta | Accumulated peaty sands. |
Eucalyptus seeana | Sandy soils to podsolics clays on moist flat terrain. |
Eucalyptus signata | Sandy soils to podsolics clays on moist flat terrain. |
Eucalyptus tereticornis | Medium clays to heavy clays and silts. |
Eucalyptus umbra | Most sands to poorer medium clays. |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Deep loams to medium clays. |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Deep loams to medium clays. |
Ficus benjamina | Better quality deep loams to medium clays. |
Ficus macrophylla | Better quality deep loams to medium clays. |
Ficus microcarpa var hilli | Better quality deep loams to medium clays. |
Ficus rubiginosa | Better quality deep loams to medium clays. |
Gahnia melanocarpus | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. |
Glochidion benthamianum | Most sands to medium clays. |
Glochidion ferdinandi | Most sands to medium clays. |
Glochidion sumatranum | Most sands to light clays. |
Glossocardia bidens | Most soils types. |
Glycine clandestina | All soil types. |
Glycine cyrtoloba | Light clays to heavy clays. |
Goodenia ovata | Light gritty clays to medium clays. |
Grevillea crithmifolia | Calcareous sands or accumulated beach sands. | |
Grevillea evansiana | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea nematophylla | Wide variety of medium clays to light loams. | |
Grevillea oleoides | Calcareous accumulated sands. | |
Grewia latifolia | Most soils from light silts to heavy clays. | |
Hakea actites | Accumulated & decomposed sands | |
Hakea victoria | Sandy loams. | |
Hemarthria uncinata | Most soil types inc. alluvial & accumulated. | |
Hibbertia acicularis | Most sandy loams to medium Clays. | |
Hibbertia aspera | Decomposed & accumulated sands. | |
Hibbertia scandens | Most sandy loams or at times to medium clays. | |
Hibbertia vestita | Skeletal to shallow sands. | |
Howea forsteriana | Most light red clays to medium red clays. | |
Hoya macgillivrayi | Sands to sandy loams. | |
Hypoestes floribunda | Most soils form coral sands to medium clays. | |
Ipomoea plebeia | Sands to fatty sandy loams. | |
Isopogon anemonifolius | Sands to fatty sandy loams. | |
Imperata cylindrica | Most soils form coral sands to medium clays. | |
Ischaemum triticeum | Peaty sands and coral sands. | |
Isopogon anemonifolius | Sandstone and accumulated sands. | |
Isopogon cuneatus | Lateritc sands and accumulated sands. | |
Jacksonia scoparia | Most sandy loams or at times to medium clays. | |
Kennedia rubicunda | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Lachnagrostis billardierei | Accumulated beach sands. | |
Lachnagrostis filiformis | Most medium clays to heavy clays and heavy silts. | |
Landoltia punctata | Slow moving water. | |
Leersia hexandra | Most soils from sandy loams to heavy silts & clays. | |
Leptospermum laevigatum | Accumulated beach sands. | |
Leptospermum liversidgei | Most sandy loams or at times to medium clays. | |
Leptospermum madidum | Most sandy loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Leptospermum polygalifolia | Most sandy loams or at times to light fatty clays. | |
Leptospermum whitei | Accumulated peaty sands to medium silts. | |
Lepyrodia imitans | White sands and white peaty accumulated sands. | |
Lepyrodia scariosa | White sands and white peaty accumulated sands. | |
Licuala ramsayi | Most sandy loams to heavy silts or light clays. | |
Livistona australis | Most sandy loams to heavy silts or light clays. | |
Livistona benthamii | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Livistona decora | Most sandy loams to heavy silts or light clays. | |
Lomandra confertifolia | Most sandy loams to heavy silts or light clays. | |
Lomandra longifolia | Most sandy loams to heavy silts or light clays. | |
Landoltia punctata | Most types of fresh water. | |
Macaranga involucrate | Most sandy loams to heavy silts or light clays. | |
Macaranga tanarius | Most sandy loams to heavy silts or light clays. | |
Macarthuria neocambrica | Most sandy loams to heavy silts or light clays. | |
Maniltoa lenticellata | Most sandy loams to heavy silts or light clays. | |
Maireana brevifolia | Small-leaved blue bush. Hot dry salt pans. | |
Mackinlaya macrosciadea | Dwarf umbrella tree | |
Maclura cochinchinensis | Cocks Spur. Littoral to well developed rainforests. | |
Manilkara kauki | Palai. Littoral, dry & monsoonal rainforests . | |
Melaleuca decussata | ||
Melaleuca laterita | Wet sandy loams to medium fatty clays. | |
Melaleuca leucadendra | Cajuput. River estuaries & brackish swamps. | |
Melaleuca nodosa. | Prickly Paper bark. Littoral wallums and swamps. | |
Melaleuca rigidus | Light silts to heavy slits and medium clays. | |
Melaleuca sp. hinchinbrook | Granitc light fatty clays. | |
Melaleuca squarrosa | Scented paper bark. Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Melaleuca viminalis | Sandy loams to medium clays or medium silts. | |
Melichrus adpressus | Sandy loams to medium fatty clays. | |
Melicope elleryana | Sandy loams to heavy clays and heavy silts. | |
Melodinus acutiflorius | Sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Melodinus australis | Light gritty clays to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Millettia pinnata | Most types of poor quality soils. | |
Mirbelia rubiifolia | Sandy soils to light clays. | |
Monococcus echinophorus | Sandy loams, medium clays light slits to medium silts | |
Myoporum acuminatum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Myoporum boninense var. australe | ||
Myoporum montanum | White sands and skeletal sandy loams. | |
Myriophyllum crispatum | Sands, medium clays, light slits to medium silts. | |
Myriophyllum gracile | Sands, medium clays, light slits to medium silts. | |
Myriophyllum latifolium | Sands, medium clays, light slits to medium silts. | |
Myriophyllum verrucosum | Sands, medium clays, light slits to medium silts. | |
Nauclea orientalis | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Olax retusa | Accumulated beach sands. | |
Olax stricta | Accumulated beach sands & decomposed sandstone. | |
Oxalis radicosa | Sandy loams, light gritty clays & medium silts. | |
Panicum lachnophyllum | Sandy loams, light gritty clays & medium silts. | |
Parsonia starminea | Sandy loams, light gritty clays & medium silts. | |
Parsonsia velutina | Sandy loams, light gritty clays & medium silts. | |
Persicaria lapathifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Persoonia katerae | Sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Persoonia sericea | Sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Persoonia stradbrokiensis | Sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Persoonia virgata | Sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Philotheca salsolifolia | Sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pisonia aculeata | Sandy loams to heavy silts. |
Pleomele angustifolia | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Plumbago zeylanica | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Poa billardierei | Sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Polymeria calycina | Sandy loams, light gritty clays to heavy silts. | |
Portulaca oleracea | Poor to better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Potamogeton crispus | Gritty light silts, heavy silts & alluvial mud. | |
Pseuderanthemum variabile | Sandy loams, light gritty clays to heavy silts. | |
Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum | Sandy loams, light gritty clays to heavy silts. | |
Psydrax attenuata | Sandy loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Psydrax australiana & subsp.buxifolia | Sandy loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Pteridium esculentum | Sandy loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Pterocaulon redolens | Sandy loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Ptilothrix deusta | Sandy loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Ptilotus exaltus | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Ptilotus mangelsii | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Ptilotus obovatus | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Pultenaea maritima | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Pultenaea rostrata | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Pultenea villosa | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Ricinocarpus pinifolius | Sandy heaths with peat. Wedding Bush. | |
Ricinocarpus speciosus | Sandy heaths with peat. Wedding Bush. | |
Salacia chinensis | All types of sandy loams to light clays & alluvial. | |
Samolus repens | Medium clays to gritty heavy clays. | |
Samolus valerandi | Medium clays to gritty heavy clays. | |
Sannantha similis | Sandy loams to medium gritty clays. | |
Scaevola albida | White and Coloured peaty sands. | |
Scaevola calandulencea | Peaty sands to light fatty clays. | |
Scaevola calliptera | White and Coloured sands. | |
Scaevola ramosissima | White and Coloured peaty sands. | |
Scaevola tomentosa | White and Coloured sands calcareous sands and limestone. | |
Schoenus pachylepis | Mud to medium silts | |
Schoenus paludosus | Mud to heavy silts | |
Schoenus scabripes | Mud to heavy silts | |
Senecio magnificus | Most types of sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senna artemisiodes subsp. Alica | Soils vary a little for each subsp. including sand to medium clays and rocky or gravelly, pindin, podsolics & vertisols. | |
Senna artemisiodes subsp. artemisioides | Soils vary a little for each subsp. including sand to medium clays and rocky or gravelly, pindin, podsolics & vertisols. | |
Senna artemisiodes subsp. circcinnata | Soils vary a little for each subsp. including sand to medium clays and rocky or gravelly, pindin, podsolics & vertisols. | |
Senna artemisiodes subsp. filifolia | Soils vary a little for each subsp. including sand to medium clays and rocky or gravelly, pindin, podsolics & vertisols. | |
Senna artemisiodes subsp. helmsii | Soils vary a little for each subsp. including sand to medium clays and rocky or gravelly, pindin, podsolics & vertisols. | |
Senna artemisiodes subsp. oligophylla | Soils vary a little for each subsp. including sand to medium clays and rocky or gravelly, pindin, podsolics & vertisols. | |
Senna artemisiodes subsp. petiolaris | Soils vary a little for each subsp. including sand to medium clays and rocky or gravelly, pindin, podsolics & vertisols. | |
Senna artemisiodes subsp. zygophylla | Soils vary a little for each subsp. including sand to medium clays and rocky or gravelly, pindin, podsolics & vertisols. | |
Senna charlesiana | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senna sp. meekatharra | Rocky slopes, alluvial sands clay salt pans. | |
Setaria australiensis | Accumutaed alkaline sands or acidic medium clays. | |
Sida cordifolia | Better quality acidic to alkaline light clays to medium clays. | |
Solanum ellipticum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum petrophilum | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Solanum symonii | Accumulated peaty sands. | |
Sorghum leiocladum | ||
Spirodela polyrhiza | Floats in slow moving water. | |
Stuckenia pectinatus | Slow moving water in mud and heavier muddy silts. | |
Swainsona formosa | Red lateritic sandy loams to medium clays usually. | |
Swainsona procumbens | Heavy alluvial grey clays towards the lower end of very saline. | |
Swainsona queenslandica | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Syzygium australe | Sands to sandy loams or light fatty clays. | |
Syzygium hemilampra | Sands to sandy loams or light fatty clays. | |
Syzygium paniculatum | Sands to sandy loams or light fatty clays. | |
Terminalia arenicola | Sands to sandy loams. | |
Terminalia arostrata | Sands to sandy loams. | |
Terminalia muelleri | Sands to sandy loams. | |
Terminala platyphylla | Accumulated beach sands. | |
Ternstroemia cherryi | Sands to sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Thryptomene baeckeacea | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Trichodesma zeylanicum | Most types of sandy soils to light sandy clays. | |
Triglochin multifructa | Sands to heavy silts and mud. | |
Triglochin procera | Sands to heavy silts and mud. | |
Tylophora benthamii | Coarse sands to light fatty clays . | |
Uvaria concava | Most types of sandy soils to medium clays. | |
Vachellia farnesiana | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Vallisneria nana | Submergent plant on light to heavy silts. | |
Veronica plebeia | Most types of sandy soils to medium clays. | |
Verticordia nitens | Coarse sands to light fatty clays. | |
Verticordia grandis | Most types of sandy soils to light fatty clays. | |
Verticordia plumosa | Coarse sands to light fatty clays. | |
Vigna luteola | Accumulated beach sands. | |
Vigna marina | Coarse sands, sandy soils to medium clays. | |
Vigna vexillata subsp. angustifolia | Coarse sands, sandy soils to medium clays. | |
Vigna vexillata subsp. marina | Coarse sands, sandy soils to medium clays. | |
Vigna vexillata subsp. youngiana | Coarse sands, sandy soils to medium clays. | |
Vitex melicopea | Sandy soils to medium clays or calcareous sands. | |
Westringea fruiticosa | Coarse sands, sandy soils to medium clays. | |
Westringia glabra | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Westringea longifolia | Sand to sandy loams. | |
Westringia sericea | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Wikstroemia indica | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Wilkea austroqueenslandica | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Wilkea huegeliana | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Wilkea macrophylla | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xanthorrhoea glauca | Sandy soils to medium clays including calcareous sands and limestone trachytes. | |
Xanthosia tomentosa | Lateritic sandy soils to light sandy clays. | |
Xanthostemon youngii | Deep sands to deep sandy loams derived from accumulated calcareous sands. | |
Xerochrsum bracteatum | Sandy loams to heavy clays with or without gravells. | |
Zieria minutiflora | Sandy loams to light rocky clays or among boulders. | |
Moderately saline soils.
Proper name | Comments |
Abildgaardia ovata | Light clays to heavy clays. |
Abildgaardia vaginata | Sandy soils to sandy loams. |
Abrophyllum ornans | Riparian zones & Gallery rainforests. |
Abutilon oxycarpum | Most arid areas on Skeletal rocky sites. |
Acacia acuminata | Sandy loams to light sandy clays. |
Acacia adunca | Course granitic sands, skeletal sands over granite. |
Acacia amblygona | Sandy soils to stony light sandy loams. |
Acacia aulacocarpa | Light to medium clays to heavy clays. |
Acacia baeuerlenii | Light fatty sands to medium clays. |
Acacia bakeri | Better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Acacia beadleana | Course granitic sands, skeletal sands over granite. |
Acacia binervata | Medium to gritty basaltic or metamorphic clays. |
Acacia brunioides | Granitic sands to granitic light sandy clays. |
Acacia cangaiensis | Course granitic sands, skeletal sands over granite. |
Acacia chrysotricha | Light to medium clays to heavy clays. |
Acacia collectoides | Spine wattle. |
Acacia complanata | Sands to light fatty clays with stone and gravel. |
Acacia concurrens | All medium to heavy clays. |
Acacia cultriformis | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia decora | Most sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia dunnii | All sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia elongata | All sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia falcata | All sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia fimbriata | All sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia granitica | All sandy loams to gritty light clays. |
Acacia hispidula | All sandy loams to stony or fatty light clays. |
Acacia implexa | All sandy loams to gritty medium clays. |
Acacia longifolia | Sydney golden wattle. |
Acacia longisissima | Long leaf wattle. Most types of heavier soils. |
Acacia macradenia | Zig Zag wattle. Most types of gravelly clays. |
Acacia maidenii | Maiden’s wattle. Most types of medium clays. |
Acacia melonoxylin | Black wattle. Sandy clays to medium clays. |
Acacia mitchellii | Mitchell’s wattle. Sandy & gritty granites. |
Acacia myrtifolia | All types of sandy soils. |
Acacia merrallii | Merrall’s wattle. |
Acacia orites | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalt. |
Acacia podaliriifolia | Mount Morgan Wattle. All types of sandy loams to medium clays |
Acacia rubida | Gritty loams to medium clays and skeletal soils. |
Acacia ruppi | Gritty loams to medium clays and skeletal soils. |
Acacia semilunata | Gritty loams to medium clays and skeletal sands. |
Acacia siculiformis | Gritty loams to medium clays and skeletal soils. |
Acacia spectabilis | Gritty loams to medium clays. |
Acacia terminalis | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia venulosa | Veiny wattle. Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Acacia viscidula | Sticky wattle. Sandy loams derived from Granite. |
Acacia wardellii | Wardell’s wattle. Sandy loams derived from sandstone. |
Aceratium ferrugineum | Better quality basaltic soils and rocks. |
Acronychia acidula | Most types of light to medium clays derived from granite. |
Acronychia laevis | Most types of light to medium clays. |
Acronychia octandra | Most types of light to medium volcanic clays. |
Acronychia pubescens | Most types of light to medium volcanic clays. |
Acronychia suberosum | Most types of light to medium volcanic medium clays. |
Adansonia gregorii | All types of sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. |
Adenanthera pavonina | All types of sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. |
Agathis robusta | All types of sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. |
Agiortia pedicellata | Accumulated sands to light gritty clays. |
Agiortia pleiosperma | Accumulated sands to light gritty clays. |
Ailanthus triphysa | Accumulated sands to light gritty clays. |
Akania bidwillii | Red soils derived from Basalts. |
Alchornea illicifolia | Light to medium clays. |
Alectryon subcericeus | Light to medium clays basaltic clays. |
Alectryon tomentosus | Light to medium basaltic & shale clays. |
Allocasuarina leuhmannii | Buloke. |
Allocasuarina littoralis | Sandy loams to medium clays |
Allocasuarina torulosa. | Sandy loams to medium clays |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping sheoak. |
Alloxylon flammeum | Red soils derived from black basalt. |
Alloxylon pinnatum | Soils derived from black or brown basalt. |
Alocasia brisbaniensis | Soils derived from black or brown basalt & alluviums. |
Alstonia actinophylla | Most better quality soils. |
Alstonia scholaris | Most better quality soils. |
Aneilema acuminatum | All types of light to heavy clay soils. |
Angophora paludosa | All types of soils derived from sandstone. |
Anigozanthos flavida | All types of soils derived from sandstone. |
Anigozanthos manglesii | All types of soils derived from sandstone. |
Anopterus macleayanus | Soils derived from decomposed basalts. |
Antidesma bunius | Soils derived from decomposed basalts. |
Antidesma parvifolium | Soils derived from decomposed basalts. |
Aphananthe philippinensis | Most loams to medium clays. |
Araucaria bidwillii | Better quality loams to medium clays. |
Araucaria cuninghammiana | Better quality loams to medium clays. |
Archidendron grandiflorum | Better quality loams to medium clays. |
Archidendron hendersonii | Better quality loamsto medium clays. |
Archidendron ramiflorum | Better quality loams to medium clays. |
Archirhodomyrtus beckleri | Better quality accumulated sands to medium clays. |
Archontophoenix maxima | Better quality light to medium basalt clays. |
Archontophoenix purpurea | Better quality light to medium granitic clays. |
Argophyllum nullumense | Better quality light to medium sandy loams. |
Argyrodendron actinophyllum | Better quality light to medium sandy loams. |
Argyrodendron peralatum | Better quality light to medium sandy loams. |
Argyrodendron trifoliolatum | Better quality light to medium sandy loams. |
Aristida acuta | Skeletal to deep sandy or rocky soils. |
Aristida benthamii | Skeletal to deep sandy or rocky soils. |
Aristida calycina | Poorer quality light to medium sandy loams. |
Aristida lignosa | Skeletal rocky and stony skeletal soils. |
Aristida queenslandica | Shallow sands and sandy loams or coral sands. |
Aristida warburgii | Better quality light to medium volcanic clays. |
Aristotelia australasica | Better quality light to medium volcanic clays. |
Arthraxon hispidus | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Asterolasia correifolia | Sandstone sands. |
Astroloma pinifolium | Sands derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping saltbush. Close to clay pans. |
Astrotricha cordata | Creeping saltbush. Close to clay pans. |
Astrotricha latifolia | Creeping saltbush. Close to clay pans. |
Astrotricha longifolia | Creeping saltbush. Close to clay pans. |
Australina pusilla | Better quality light to medium clays. |
Austrobuxus swainii | Better quality light clays derived from basalts. |
Austrocynoglossum latifolium | Better quality light clays derived from basalts. |
Austrostipa pubescens | All types of sandy loams from decomposed sandstone. |
Austrostipa ramosissima | All types of wet sandy loams to medium clays. |
Austrostipa rudis sub sp. nervosa | All types of sandy loams from decomposed sandstone. |
Austrostipa scabra sub sp.falcata, sub sp.scabra | All types of sandy loams from decomposed sandstone. |
Backhousia angustifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalts or shale. |
Backhousia citriodora | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalts or shale. |
Backhousia myrtifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalts or shale. |
Backhousia sciadophora | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalts or shale. |
Baeckea diosmifolia | Sand to peaty sands and sandy loams. |
Baeckea frutescens | Sand to peaty sands and sandy loams. |
Baeckea imbricate | Sand to peaty sands and sandy loams. |
Baeckea linifolia | Sand to peaty sands and sandy loams. |
Baeckea utilis | Sand & light clays derived from granite & brown basalt. |
Baloghia inophylla | Light to medium clays derived from brown & black basalt. |
Baloghia marmorata | Light to medium clays derived from black basalt. |
Baloskion pallens | Sand to sandy loams derived from accumulated sand. |
Baloskion stenocoleum | Course acid sands mainly derived from granite. |
Baloskion tenuiculme | Sand to sandy loams derived from accumulated sand. |
Baloskion tetraphyllum | Sand to sandy loams derived from accumulated sand. |
Bambusa arnhemica | Sand to sandy loams derived from decomposed sandstones’ or alluvial materials. |
Banksia cunninghamii | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalts. |
Banksia ericifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalts, sandstones and accumulated sands. |
Banksia illicifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from accumulated sands. |
Banksia undata | Sandy loams derived from accumulated sands. |
Banksia integrifolia subsp monticola | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Banksia marginata | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Banksia media | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Banksia oblongifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Banksia paludosa | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Banksia petiolaris | Sandy loams derived from sandstone and accumulated sands. |
Banksia plagiocarpa | Sandy loams derived from sandstone and accumulated sands. |
Banksia praemorsa | Sandy loams derived from sandstone and accumulated sands. |
Banksia repens | Sandy loams derived from sandstone and accumulated sands. |
Banksia robor | Sandy loams to heavy clays derived from sandstone or shale and accumulated sands. |
Bauhinia hookeri | Sandy loams to heavy clays derived from sandstone. |
Bauhinia malabarica | Sandy loams to heavy clays derived from sandstone. |
Bauhinia syringifolia | Sandy loams to heavy clays derived from Sandstone, shale or metamorphic rocks. |
Baumea acuta | Most alluvial soils which are water logged. |
Baumea arthrophylla | Most alluvial soils which are water logged. |
Baumea articulata | Most alluvial soils which are water logged. |
Baumea gunnii | Most alluvial soils which are water logged. |
Baumea muelleri | Most sandy to light alluvial clay soils which are water logged. |
Baumea nuda | Most sandy to light alluvial clay soils which are seasonally water logged. |
Baumea rubiginosa | Most sandy to light alluvial clay soils which are seasonally water logged. |
Baumea teretifolia | Most sandy to light alluvial clay soils which are water logged. |
Beaufortia incana | Sandy loams to light sandy clays derived from sandstone, shale or metamorphic rocks. |
Beilschmiedia elliptica | Sandy loams to light sandy clays derived from sandstone, shale or metamorphic rocks. |
Beilschmiedia obtusifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalt or metamorphic rocks. |
Benthamina alyxifolia | Sandy loams to light sandy clays derived from sandstone, shale or metamorphic rocks. |
Berberidopsis beckleri | Sandy loams to light sandy clays derived from basalts. |
Bertya brownii | Sandy loams to light sandy clays derived from sandstone. |
Bertya sp. Chambigne | Sandy loams to light sandy clays derived from sandstone, shale or metamorphic rocks. |
Blechnum cartilagineum | Sandy clays to medium clays derived from most bedrocks. |
Blechnum minus | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Blechnum nudum | Sandy clays to medium clays derived from most bedrocks. |
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis | Most sandy loams to heavy silty clays deposited as alluviums. |
Boronia chartacea | Sandy clays to medium clays derived from most bedrocks. |
Boronia clavata | Sandy alluvial loams. |
Boronia falicifolia | Sandy alluvial sandy loams and accumulated coastal sands. |
Boronia hapalophylla | Sandy soils derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Boronia heterophylla | Sandy soils derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Boronia ledifolia | Sandy soils derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Boronia parvifolia | Sandy soils derived from accumulated sands. |
Boronia pinnata | Sandy soils derived from accumulated sand. |
Boronia polygalifolia | Sandy soils derived from accumulated sand. |
Boronia rosmarinifolia | All types of sandy soils. |
Boronia safrolifera | Sandy soils derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Boronia umbellata | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Bosistoa floydii | Alluvial silts to medium clays. |
Bosistoa pentacocca | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Bothriochloa decipiens | Most dry soil types. |
Botrychium australe | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Brachyloma daphnoides | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Brachyloma scortechinii | Accumulated sands behind the frontal dunes. |
Brachyscome microcarpa | All types of light clays to medium clays. |
Breynia longifolia | Sandy soils to medium clays. |
Bridelia exaltata | Light to medium clays derived from basalts. |
Buckinghammia celsissima | Light to medium clays derived from basalts. |
Caelospermum paniculatum | Accumulated sands to medium clays. |
Caesalpinia subtropica | Light to medium clays derived from black basalt. |
Caesia parviflora | Sandy soils derived from sandstone. |
Caldcluvia paniculosa | Better quality light to medium clays. |
Callerya australis | Better quality light to clays to medium clays. |
Callerya megasperma | Better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Callicarpa brevistyla | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Callicoma pedunculata | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Callitriche muelleri | Poorly drained loams to light clays. |
Callitris baileyi | Poorer quality skeletal sandy loams to medium clays soils with rocky substratas. |
Callitris endlicheri | Poorer quality deep sandy loams to medium clays. |
Callitris macleayana | Most better quality loams to medium clays. |
Calochilus campestris | Most moist light sandy clays to light loams. |
Calochilus gracillimus | Most moist light sandy clays to light loams. |
Calochilus grandiflorus | Most moist light sandy clays to light loams. |
Cyathea cooperi | Moist light clay loams to medium clays. |
Cyathea cunninghamii | Moist light clay loams to medium clays. |
Cyathea leichardtiana | Moist light clay loams to medium clays. |
Cyathea rebeccae | Moist light clay loams to medium clays. |
Cyathea robertsoniana | Moist light clay loams to medium clays. |
Cyathea woollsiana | Moist light clay loams to medium clays. |
Cycas media | Light fatty clay to medium clays. |
Cycas cairnsiana | Light fatty clay to medium clays. |
Cyperus brevifolius | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Cyperus cyperoides | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Cyperus difformis | Most loams to heavy clays and silts. |
Cyperus disjunctus | Better quality Volcanic light clays to medium clays. |
Cyperus eglobosus | Most loams to heavy clays and silts. |
Cyperus enervis | Most loams to heavy clays and silts. |
Cyperus flaccidus | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Cyperus flavidus | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Cyperus fulvus | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Cyperus gracilis | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Cyperus haspan | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Cyperus imbecillis | Most sandy loams to medium clays and silts. |
Cyperus laevis | All types of sand and sandy loams. |
Cyperus leiocaulon | All types of sand and sandy loams. |
Cyperus mirus | All types of sand and sandy loams. |
Cyperus procerus | All types of sand and sandy loams. |
Cyperus sanguinolentus | |
Cyperus sphaeroideus | Most types of light sandy clays to medium clays. |
Cyperus stradbrokensis | Most types of light sandy loams and peaty sands. |
Cyperus subulatus | Most types of light sandy loams and peaty sands. |
Cyperus tetraphyllus | Most types of light sandy loams and peaty sands. |
Damasonium minus | Sandy loams to heavy clay alluvia’s. |
Dampiera diversifolia | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Dampiera purpurea | Sandy loams from acuminated sands. |
Dampiera stricta | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Dampiera sylvestris | Sandy loams from acuminated sands. |
Daphnandra apatela | Skeletal light clays to medium clays. |
Daphnandra micrantha | Skeletal light clays to medium clays. |
Daphnandra tenuipes | Light clays to medium clays. |
Darlingia darlingiana | Sandy loams to medium clay alluvia’s. |
Darwinia citriodora | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Darwinia collina | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Darwinia oldfieldii | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Daucus glochidiatus | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Davallia solida subsp. pyxidata | Epiphyte or Liyophyte |
Davallia solida subsp. solida | Epiphyte or Liyophyte |
Davidsonia jerseyana | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Davidsonia pruriens | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Daviesia arborea | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Daviesia latifolia | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Daviesia nova-anglica | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Daviesia ulcifolia | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Daviesia umbellate. | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Daviesia villifera | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Daviesia wyattian | Sandy loams to light clays. |
Decaspermum humile | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Deeringia amaranthoides | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Deeringia arborescens | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Dendrocnide excela | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Dendrocnide moroides | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Dendrocnide photinophylla | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Denhamia pittosporoides | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
Deparia petersenii | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
Derris involuta | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
De smodium brachypodum | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
De smodium gunnii | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
De smodium heterocarpon | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
De smodium nemorosum | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
De smodium rhytidophyllum | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
De smodium varians | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
Deyeuxia parviseta | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
Deyeuxia reflexa | Most types sandy loams to medium clays. |
Dianella atraxis | Most types light gritty clays to medium clays. |
Dianella pavopennacea | Most types light gritty clays to medium clays. |
Dianella revoluta | Most types light gritty clays to medium clays. |
Dianella tasmanica | Most types light gritty clays to medium clays. |
Dichanthium tenue | Most types sandy loams to light gritty clays. |
Dichondra repens | Most types of moist sandy loams to heavy clays. |
Dicksonia antarctica | Better quality rainforest soils. |
Dicksonia youngiae | Better quality rainforest soils. |
Dictymia brownii | Lithophyte on basalt or granitic rocks. |
Dillenia alata | Sandy loams to medium clays |
Dillwynia glaberrima | Sandy loams to medium clays |
Dillwynia phylicoides | Sandy loams to medium clays |
Dimorphocalyx australiensis | Better quality light gravelly clays to rocky medium clays. |
Dinosperma erythrococcum | Most types light gravelly clays to medium clays. |
Diospyros australis | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Diospyros calycanth | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Diospyros fasciculosa | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Diospyros pentamera | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Diplocyclos palmatus | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Diploglottis australis | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Diploglottis bernieana | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Diploglottis cunninghamii | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Diploglottis obovata | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Diplolaena grandiflora | Most sandy loams. |
Dipodium atropurpureum | Better quality soils with copious mulch. |
Dipodium punctatum | Better quality soils with copious mulch. |
Dipodium variegatum | Better quality soils with copious mulch. |
Diuris chrysantha | Decomposed sandstone and granites. |
Diuris punctata | Decomposed sandstone and granites. |
Diuris sulphurea | Decomposed sandstone and granites. |
Dodonaea boroniifolia | Sandy soils derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Dodonaea hirsuta | Granitic and sandstone derived sands. |
Dodonaea multijuga | Sandy soils derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Dodonaea rhombifolium | Sandy soils derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Dodonaea triquetra | Sandy soils derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Dodonaea viscosa | Sandy soils derived from decomposed sandstone. |
Doodia caudata | Most soils derived from black basalt or metamorphic rocks. |
Doodia heterophylla | Most soils derived from black basalt. |
Doodia linearis | Light clay to medium clay derived from basalt or metamorphic rocks. |
Doryanthes palmeri | Most sandy soils derived from sandstone. |
Dracophyllum secundum | Most sandy soils derived from sandstone. |
Doryphora sassafras | Light clay to medium clay derived from basalt. |
Drymophila moorei | Most light clays to medium clays. |
Durringtonia paludosa | Sand and peaty sands from accumulated sand. |
Dysoxylum fraserianum | Most light clays to medium clays. |
Dysoxylum mollissimum | Most light clays to medium clays. |
Dysoxylum rufum | Most light clays to medium clays. |
Echinochloa colona | Heavy clay flats and depressions. |
Echinochloa telmatophila | Medium clays to heavy clay flats and depressions. |
Echinostephia aculeata | Most light clays to medium clays. |
Eclipta platyglossa | Most light clays to medium clays. |
Ehretia acuminata | Most sandy soils to light clays. |
Elaeocarpus angustifolius | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Elaeocarpus eumundi | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Elaeocarpus holopetalus | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Elaeocarpus kirtonii | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Elaeocarpus obovatus | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Elaeocarpus reticulatus | Most better quality peaty sand to medium clays. |
Eleaodendron australe | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Elatostema reticulatum | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Elatostema stipitatum | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Elattostachys nervosa | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Elattostachys xylocarpa | Most better quality light clays to medium clays. |
Eleocharis dietrichiana | Light clays to heavy clay flats and depressions. |
Eleocharis dulcis | Sandy loams to light clay flats and depressions. |
Eleocharis equisetina | Light clays to heavy clay flats and depressions. |
Eleocharis pusilla | Light clays to heavy clay flats and depressions. |
Eleocharis sphacelata | Light clays to heavy clay flats and depressions. |
Eleocharis tetraquetra | Light clays to heavy clay flats and depressions. |
Emmenosperma alphitonioides | Light sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. |
Empodisma minus | Most types of wet acid soils. |
Empusa habenarina | Light sandy loams to light gravelly clays. |
Endiandra compressa | Light sandy clays to medium gravelly clays. |
Endrandra crassiflora | Light sandy clays to medium gravelly clays. |
Endiandra discolor | Light sandy clays to medium gravelly clays. |
Endiandra floydii | medium clays to medium gravelly clays. |
Endrandra muelleri | Light sandy clays to medium gravelly clays. |
Endriandra pubens | Deep light sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. |
Endriandra seiberi | Light sandy clays to medium gravelly clays. |
Endiandra virens | Light sandy clays to medium gravelly clays. |
Enteropogon unispiceus | Light sandy clays to heavy clays. |
Entolasia marginata | Light sandy loams to light sandy clays |
Entolasia stricta | Light sandy loams to light sandy clays |
Entolasia whiteana | Light sandy loams to light sandy clays |
Enydra fluctuans | Most bogs and swamps on most soils. |
Epacris breviflora | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Epacris impressa | Most sandy loams to light gritty clays. |
Epacris longiflora | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Epacris microphylla | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Epacris obtusifolia | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Epacris pulchella | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eragrostis brownie/brownie | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eragrostis elongata | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eragrostis sororia | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eragrostis spartinoides | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eragrostis tracycarpa | Most sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eremophila brevifolia | Sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eremophila longifolia | Sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eriocaulon australe | Sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eriocaulon scariosum | Sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eriochilus cucullatus | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Eriochloa procera | Sandy loams to light gritty or gravelly clays. |
Eriostemon australasius | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Eucalyptus acaciiformis | Better quality sandy loams to light sandy clays. |
Eucalyptus acmenoides | Better quality sandy loams to light sandy clays. |
Eucalyptus agglomerata | Better quality sandy loams to light sandy clays. |
Eucalyptus ampliflolia | Better quality sandy loams to light sandy clays. |
Eucalyptus baileyana | Poorer quality sandy loams. | |
Eucalyptus bancroftii | Poorer quality sandy loams. | |
Eucalyptus biturbinata | Better quality sandy loams to light sandy clays. | |
Eucalyptus brassiana | Poorer quality sandy loams. | |
Eucalyptus bridgesiana | Better quality sandy loams to light sandy clays. | |
Eucalyptus brunnea | Poorer quality sandy loams to light sandy clays. | |
Eucalyptus caliginosa | Better quality sandy loams to light sandy clays. | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River red gum. From moderate to very saline depending on the gene pool. Soils vary considerably from sandy loams to deep heavy silts. | |
Eucalyptus cameronii | Poorer quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus campanulata | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus carnea | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus cerasiformis | Better quality loams. | |
Eucalyptus creba | Most sandy loams to light clays. | |
Eucalyptus dorrigoensis | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus dunnii | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus eugenioides | Better quality deep medium to heavy clays | |
Eucalyptus fusiformis | Light clays to heavy silts. | |
Eucalyptus glaucina | Better quality deep sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus globoidea | Better quality deep sandy loams to light clays. | |
Eucalyptus globulus ssp.bicosata | Blue gum. Light sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Eucalyptus globulus ssp. Globulus | Blue gum. Light sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Eucalyptus goniantha | Light gritty clays to medium clays or heavy silts. | |
Eucalyptus grandis | Light gritty clays to medium clays or heavy silts. | |
Eucalyptus kruseana | Sandy loams to light gritty clays | |
Eucalyptus laevopinea | Sandy loams to light gritty clays | |
Eucalyptus lansdowneana | Sandy loams to light gritty clays | |
Eucalyptus ligustrina | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus maginificata | Coarse sands to sandy loams or light fatty clays. | |
Eucalyptus marginata | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus melanophloia | Yellow box. Hot dry sandy flats. | |
Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow box. Hot dry sandy or clay flats at the lower end of moderately saline soils. Gene pools make a difference on the tolerance of individual plants. | |
Eucalyptus microcorys | Tallowwood grows on a wide variety of soil types. | |
Eucalyptus moluccana | Better quality deep sandy loams to light clays. | |
Eucalyptus nobilis | Better quality deep sandy loams to light clays. | |
Eucalyptus notabilis | Better quality deep sandy loams to light clays. | |
Eucalyptus obliqua | Better quality deep sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus ophitica | Orange to red medium Clays. | |
Eucalyptus oreades | Poor deep sands or skeletal light and medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus pachycalyx | Red or orange skeletal sands. | |
Eucalyptus pachyphylla | Most types of sand to sandy loams. | |
Eucalyptus phoenicea | Most types of sand to sandy loams. | |
Eucalyptus pauciflora | Coarse sand to light fatty clays. | |
Eucalyptus pilularis | Most better quality sandy loams to medium Clays. | |
Eucalyptus pleurocarpa | Red and orange sandy soils to fatty sands. | |
Eucalyptus prava | Sandy loams to medium clay. | |
Eucalyptus psammitica | Red, orange or grey sand over sandstone. | |
Eucalyptus pyriformis | Red, orange, white, brown or grey Aeolian sands. | |
Eucalyptus pyrocarpa | Red, orange or grey loams to light clays. | |
Eucalyptus quadrangulata | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus racemosa | Coarse sands, sandy loams or light fatty clays. | |
Eucalyptus resinifera | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus robusta | Swamp mahogany. Coastal frontal dunes and marginal flats close to mangroves and estuaries. | |
Eucalyptus saligna | Light clays to medium podsolic clays. | |
Eucalyptus sepulcralis | Sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Eucalyptus siderophloia | Coastal locations close to estuaries. | |
Eucalyptus sideroxylon | Red ironbark light clays to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus stellulata | coarse sands to light fatty clays. | |
Eucalyptus tereticornis | Forest red gum. Coastal locations close to estuaries. | |
Eucalyptus tetrapleura | Loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus tindaliae | Loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus torquatra | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Eucalyptus umbra | Loams to medium clays. | |
Eupomatia bennettii | Better quality loams to heavy clays. | |
Eupomatia laurina | Better quality loams to heavy clays. | |
Eustrephus latifolius | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Everistia vacciniifolia | Better quality volcanic soils. | |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Poorer quality loams to heavy clays. | |
Exocarpos latifolius | Most soils most habitats. | |
Exocarpos strictus | Most soils most habitats. | |
Exocarya sclerioides | Most sandy loams | |
Fagraea cambagei | Most sandy loams | |
Faradaya splendida | Better quality basaltic soils. | |
Ficus congesta | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalt, granites or sandstone. | |
Ficus copiosus | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalt, granites or sandstone. | |
Ficus coronata | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalt or sandstone. | |
Ficus crassipes | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalt or sandstone. | |
Ficus fraseri | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalt or sandstone. | |
Ficus hispida | Sandy loams to medium clays derived from basalt or sandstone. | |
Ficus obliqua | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Ficus opposita | Most sandy loams to medium clays & light to heavy silts. | |
Ficus racemosa | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Ficus Varigaeta | ||
Ficus virens | ||
Ficus virgata | ||
Ficus watkinsiana | Most light clays to heavy clays & heavy alluvial silts. | |
Fimbristylis cinnamometorum | All sandy type soils. | |
Fimbristylis nutans | All sandy type soils. | |
Flagellaria indica | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Flindersia australis | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Flindersia bennettiana | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Flindersia collina | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Flindersia schottiana | Peaty sands to light clays. | |
Floydia praealta | Better quality light clays to medium clays. | |
Freycinettia excelsa | Better quality sandy loams to light clays with forest litter. | |
Fuirena ciliaris | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Gahnia aspera | Acid loams to medium clays. | |
Gahnia clarkei | Acid loams to medium clays. | |
Gahnia sieberiana | Sandy loams to medium clays and podsolic soils. | |
Gahnia subaequiglumis | Sandy loams to medium clays and podsolic soils. | |
Geitonoplesium cymosum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Gleichenia mendellii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Gleichenia microphyla | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Glochidion ferdinandi | Sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Gmelina dalrympleana | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Gmelina leichhardtii | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Garcinia warrenii | Better quality loams, light clays to medium clays. | |
Gaultheria appressa | Better quality light clays to medium clays. | |
Geijera salicifolia | Most types of gravelly clays or screes. | |
Geissois benthamiana | Better quality medium clays or gravelly clays. | |
Geranium homeanum | Better quality light clays or medium gravelly clays. | |
Geranium neglectum | Better quality light clays or medium gravelly clays. | |
Glycine microphylla | Medium clays from shale and metamorphic rocks. | |
Glycine tabacina | Sandy loams to medium clays and podsolic soils. | |
Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa | Heavy Clays and heavy Silts. | |
Gmelina fasciculiflora | Medium clays to heavy clays & heavy silts. | |
Gmelina leichhardtii | Light clays to medium clays & heavy silts. | |
Gompholobium latifolium | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Gompholobium pinnatum | Sandy loams to fatty peaty sands. | |
Gompholobium virgatum | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Gonocarpus chinensis | Sharp sandy loams to gritty light clays. | |
Gonocarpus micranthus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Gonocarpus oreophilus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Goodenia bellidifolia sub sp. argentea, sub sp. bellidifolia | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Goodenia glabra | Sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Goodenia grandiflora | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Goodenia hederacea | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Goodenia heterophylla | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Goodenia paniculata | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Goodenia latifolia | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Goodenia rotundrifolia | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Goodenia stelligera | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Goodenia sp.1 | Sharp sandy loams to gritty light clays. | |
Goodia lotifolia | Sharp sandy loams to gritty light clays. | |
Gossia acmenoides | Better quality light clays or medium gravelly clays. | |
Gossypium sturtianum | Sharp sandy loams to gritty light clays. | |
Graptophyllum excelsum | Better quality light clays or medium gravelly clays. | |
Graptophyllum ilicifolium | Better quality light clays or medium gravelly clays. | |
Gratiola pedunculata | Most soil types. | |
Grevillea angulata | Most skeletal sandy loams. | |
Grevillea banyabba | Deep or skeletal sands. | |
Grevillea acanthifolia | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea acuaria | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea agrifolia | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea albiflora | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea alpina | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevi Grevillea angulata | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea arenaria | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea armigera | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea asparagoides | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea asplenifolia | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea asteriscosa | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea aurea | Deep or skeletal sandstone derived sands. | |
Grevillea banyabba | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea baileyana | Deep or skeletal sands to light clays. | |
Grevillea banksii | Deep or skeletal sandstone derived sands. | |
Grevillea baurii | Deep or skeletal sands to rock soils or stony clays. | |
Grevillea beadleeana | Skeletal rocky partially decomposed granite. | |
Grevillea bedggoodiana | Deep or skeletal sands to rock soils or stony clays. | |
Grevillea bipinnatifida | Deep or skeletal sands to rock soils or stony clays. | |
Grevillea biternata | Deep or skeletal sands to rock soils or stony clays. | |
Grevillea bronwenae | Deep or skeletal sands to rock soils or stony clays. | |
Grevillea buxifolia | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea caleyi | Deep or skeletal sands to rock soils or stony clays. | |
Grevillea calliantha | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea candelabroides | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea capitellata | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea centristigma | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea chrysophaea | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea diffusa | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea dimorpha | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea disjuncta | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea dissecta | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea drummondii | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea dryophylla | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea eriobotrya | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea eryngioides | Sandstone or granitic sandy loams. | |
Grevillea evansiana | Red or yellow sandstone loams to fatty loams. | |
Grevillea exposita | Red or yellow sandstone loams to fatty loams. | |
Grevillea fasciculata | Red or yellow sandstone loams to fatty loams. | |
Grevillea flexuosa | Red or yellow sandstone loams to fatty loams. | |
Grevillea floribunda | Sandy loams over sandstone or granite. | |
Grevillea formosa | Skeletal sands on partially decomposed or sandstone decomposed sandstone. | |
Grevillea fulgens | Skeletal sands on partially decomposed or sandstone decomposed sandstone. | |
Grevillea georgeana | Red sand, lateritic loams to gravely clays. | |
Grevillea glauca | Accumulated sands. Granite sands and lateritic clays. | |
Grevillea goodii | Granite sands,lateritic fatty clays or silts. | |
Grevillea granulifera | Skeletal sands on partially decomposed or sandstone decomposed sandstone. | |
Grevillea heliosperma | Red sand, lateritic loams to gravely clays. | |
Grevillea helmsiae | Sandy soils to light gravelly clays. | |
Grevillea hilliana | Better quality volcanic soils. | |
Grevillea hirtella | Sandy soils to light gravelly clays. | |
Grevillea hookeriana | Sandy soils to light gravelly clays. | |
Grevillea humifusa | Sandy soils to light gravelly clays. | |
Grevillea humilis | Sandy soils to light gravelly clays. | |
Grevillea iaspicula | Sandy soils to light gravelly clays. | |
Grevillea ilicifolia | Sandy soils to light gravelly clays. | |
Grevillea incrassata | Sandy soils over rocks to light rocky clays. | |
Grevillea infundibularis | Quartz sands. | |
Grevillea insigna | Various types of sands to sandy loams. | |
Grevillea involucrata | Gravelly to rocky sands over laterites. | |
Grevillea irrasa | Better quality medium clays from basalt. | |
Grevillea jephcottii | Light to medium granitic clays. | |
Grevillea juncifolia | ||
Grevillea juniperina | Soils vary as much as the sub sp. From sand to medium clays derived from most types of rocks but are often subsp. specific. | |
Grevillea lanigera | Light to medium clays derived from most plutonic and sedimentary rocks including limestone. | |
Grevillea laurifolia | Light to medium clays from sedimentary rocks. | |
Grevillea lavandulacea | Light to medium clays from sedimentary rocks. | |
Grevillea leptobotrys | Lateritic sands to calcareous sands. | |
Grevillea linearifolia | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Grevillea linsmithii | Granitic sand and loams | |
Grevillea longifolia | Most sandy loams to light clays. | |
Grevillea longistyla | Most sandy loams to light clays. | |
Grevillea macleayeana | Most red stones to sandy loams. | |
Grevillea masonii | Gravelly loams to gravelly podsolics. | |
Grevillea miniata | Red orange & yellow sandy loams and screes. | |
Grevillea mollis | Granitic sand and sandy loams. | |
Grevillea molyneuxii | Sandy loams to fatty sands from sandstone. | |
Grevillea mucronulata | Sandy loams to fatty sands from sandstone. | |
Grevillea nana | Fatty sands to podsolic soils. | |
Grevillea neurophylla | Medium clays to light sandy loams from granite. | |
Grevillea nudiflora | Medium clays to light sandy loams from granite. | |
Grevillea oleoides | Sandy loams to fatty sands from sandstone. | |
Grevillea parallela | Sandy loams to fatty sands from sandstone. | |
Grevillea patulifolia | Medium clays to light loams from granite or sandstone. | |
Grevillea petrophiloides | Light granitic sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Grevillea pluricaulis | Light sandy loams to light gritty fatty clays. | |
Grevillea polybractea | Light granitic sandy loams to gravelly loams. | |
Grevillea prasina | Most sands derived from quartz and sandstone. | |
Grevillea preisii | Sandy loams to light gravelly and stony clays. | |
Grevillea pteridifolia | Most well drained light soils to medium clays. | |
Grevillea quadricauda | Medium clays to light sandy loams from granite. | |
Grevillea quercifolia | Light lateritic gravelly loams to light clays. | |
Grevillea ramosissima | Sandy loams to light gravelly and stony clays. | |
Grevillea renwickiana | Light granitic sandy loams to gravelly loams. | |
Grevillea repens | Granitic sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Grevillea rhizomatosa | Sandy loams to light clays from granite. | |
Grevillea rhyolitica | Sandy loams to light medium clays. | |
Grevillea rigida | Sandy soils to light gritty clays. | |
Grevillea robusta | Better quality volcanic light to medium clays. | |
Grevillea rosmarinifolia | Sandy loams to light podsolic clays. | |
Grevillea scortechinii | Sandy loams. | |
Grevillea secunda | Sandy soils to light gritty clays. | |
Grevillea sericea | Sandy soils to light gritty clays. | |
Grevillea sessilis | Sandy soils to medium stony clays. | |
Grevillea shiressii | Sandy soils to light gritty clays. | |
Grevillea speciosa | Decomposed sandstone. | |
Grevillea stenomera | Sandy loams from laterites and calcarious deposits. | |
Grevillea striata | Decomposed sandstone and granite with laterite or limestone. | |
Grevillea tenuiflora | Decomposed sandstone and granite with laterite or limestone. | |
Grevillea thelemanniana | Sandy loams & fatty loams from lateritic sandstone. | |
Grevillea thyrsoides | Sandy loams & fatty loams from lateritic sandstone. | |
Grevillea treueriana | Skeletal quartzite sands. | |
Grevillea trifida | Silicate sands from sandstone and granite. | |
Grevillea triloba | Silicate sands, limestone and calcareous sands. | |
Grevillea tripartite subsp. macrostylis | Granitic soils. | |
Grevillea venusta | Sandy soils to medium clays & podsolics. | |
Grevillea victoriae | Sandy soils to medium clays & podsolics. | |
Grevillea whiteana | Sandy soils to medium clays & podsolics. | |
Grevillea wickhamii | Sandy loams from decomposed sandstone. | |
Grevillea wilkinsonii | Silicate & granitic sands. | |
Grevillea wilsonii | Light to medium lateritic gravels & limestone loams. | |
Guioa semiglauca | Better quality loams & medium clays. | |
Guilfoylia monostylis | Better quality loams & medium clays. | |
Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus | Better quality loams & medium clays. | |
Gymnostachys anceps | Better quality loams & medium clays. | |
Gymnostoma australianum | Better quality loams & medium clays. | |
Haemodorum austroqueenslandicum | Sandy loams to light clays derived from sandstone. | |
Haemodorum planifolium | Sand to sandy loams. | |
Hakea bakeriana | Decomposed and partially decomposed sandstone. | |
Hakea bucculenta | Decomposed and partially decomposed sandstone. | |
Hakea clavata | Decomposed and partially decomposed sandstone. | |
Hakea eriantha | Decomposed and partially decomposed sandstone. | |
Hakea florulenta | Sand to sandy loams from sandstone & granite. | |
Hakea laurina | Sand to sandy loams from sandstone. | |
Hakea ochroptera | Sand to sandy loams from brown and black basalt. | |
Hakea orthorrhyncha | Sand to sandy loams from granite. | |
Hakea pedunculata | Skeletal sands to sandy loams from sandstone. | |
Hakea purpurea | Skeletal sands to sandy loams from sandstone. | |
Hakea salicifolia | Most granitic, sandstone and basaltic sandy loams. | |
Hakea sericea | Sandstone based loams. | |
Hakea subsulcata | Lateritic light gravelly clays to medium clays. | |
Hakea teretifolia | Most granitc and sandstone sands & sandy loams. | |
Hakea verrucosa | Sandy gravelly lateritic clays. | |
Halfordia kendack | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Harnieria hygrophiloides | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Harpullia arborea | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Harpullia hillii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Harpullia pendula | Most better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Hedycarya angustifolia | Most better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Helichrysum rutidolepis | Sand to medium clays. | |
Helicia ferruginea | Better quality medium clays. | |
Helicia glabriflora | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Helmholtzia glaberrima | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Hibbertia acuminata | Sands to light clays from decomposed sandstone. | |
Hibbertia banksii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hibbertia dentata | Most accumulated and decomposed sandy soils. | |
Hibbertia diffusa | Most sandy loams or at times to light & medium clays. | |
Hibbertia fasciculata | Most sandy loams or at times to light & medium clays. | |
Hibbertia linearis | Most sandy loams or at times to light & medium clays. | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Most sandy loams or at times to light & medium clays. | |
Hibbertia pedunculata | Most sandy loams or at times to light & medium clays. | |
Hibbertia riparia | Most sandy loams or at times to light & medium clays. | |
Hibbertia rufa | Sandy loams to light clays from granitic origins. | |
Hibbertia salicifolia | Most sandy loams from accumulated sands. | |
Hibbertia serpyllifolia | Sandy soils from granite or accumulated sands. | |
Hibbertia vestita | Skeletal to shallow sands. | |
Hibbertia villosa | Skeletal to shallow sands to fatty Granitic sands. | |
Hibiscus diversifolia | Most wet sandy loams or at times to medium clays | |
Hibiscus geranioides | Most sandy loams or at times to light clays | |
Hibiscus heterophyllus | Most sandy loams or at times to light & medium clays | |
Hibiscus insularis | Light to medium clays derived from basalt. | |
Hibiscus macilwraithensis | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Hibiscus sp. barambah creek | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Hibiscus splendens | Better quality loams to medium clays or podsolics. | |
Hibiscus sturtii | Sandy loams to medium clays | |
Hibiscus trionum | Sands to sandy loams. | |
Hibiscus tozerensis | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia | Better quality light to medium clays. | |
Hippocratea barbata | Most sandy loams to medium clays and heavy silts. | |
Histiopteris incisa | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hodgkinsonia ovatiflora | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Homalanthus novoguineensis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Homalanthus populifolius | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hovea acutifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hovea graniticola | Sands to light fatty clays derived from granite. | |
Hovea heterophylla | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hovea ramulosa | Most sandy loams to fatty loams. | |
Howittia trilocularis | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hoya australis | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Hybanthus monopetalus | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Hybanthus stellarioides | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Hybanthus vernonii | Most types of sandy soils. | |
Hydrilla verticillata | Fresh water plant. | |
Hydrocharis dubia | light silts to heavy silts in fresh water plant. | |
Hydrocotyle acutiloba | Most sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Hydrocotyle geraniifolia | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hydrocotyle pedicellosa | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hydrocotyle peduncularis | Most wet sands to moist heavy clays. | |
Hydrocotyle tripartita | Most wet sands to moist medium clays & heavy silts. | |
Hydrocotyle verticillata | Wet sands & heavy silts in shallow water. | |
Hymenosporum flavum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hyparrhenia filipendula | Light clays to medium clays and podsolic soils. | |
Hypericum gramineum | Most soils from sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hypoestes floribunda | Most soils from sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Hypolaena fastigiata | Sands to sandy loams. | |
Hypolepis glandulifera | Most loams to medium clays. | |
Hypolepis muelleri | Most loams to medium clays. | |
Hypoxis pratensis | Most loams to medium clays. | |
Indigofera australis | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Indigofera hirsuta | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Indigofera linifolia | Most soils from sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Indigofera pratensis | Most soils from sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Isopogon dubius | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Isopogon mnoraifolius | Sandy loams to fatty sandy loams. | |
Isopogon petiolaris | Sharp sands, sandy loams to fatty sandy loams. | |
Ixora bleckeri | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Indigofera pratensis | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Iphigenia indica | Most soils from sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Isachne globosa | Most soils from sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Isolepis cernua | Most soils from sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Isolepis habra | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Isolepis inundata | Most soils from sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Isolepis subtilissimum | Granites and metamorphic rocky soils. | |
Isopogon dubius | Lateritic sandstone or granite sands. | |
Isopogon mnoraifolius | Sandstone or accumulated sands. | |
Isopogon petiolaris | Sandstone or granite sands. | |
Ixora bleckeri | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Isotoma armstrongii | Sand and coarse alluvial silts. | |
Isotoma axillaris | Sandstone & granitic sands. | |
Isotoma fluviatilis | Fine sands to muds with copious organic matter. | |
Jacksonia chappilliae | Light to medium clays from brown basalts. | |
Jacksonia stackhousei | Sandstione and accumulated sands. | |
Jasminum didymum | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Jasminum singuliflorum | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Jasminum suavissimum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Jasminum volubile | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Juncus bufonius | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Juncus continuus | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Juncus planifolius | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Juncus polyanthemus | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Juncus prismatocarpus | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Juncus saraphorus | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Juncus subsecundus | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Juncus usitatus | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Juncus vaginatus | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Kardomia prominens | Sandy loams from sandstone and Granite. | |
Kardomia silvestris | Sandy loams from rhyolitica Granites. | |
Kennedia nigricans | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Kennedia sp. | Medium clays from metashales. | |
Keraudrenia corollata sub sp. corollata, sub sp. denticulata | Sand to sandy loams. | |
Keraudrenia hillii sub sp. hillii | Better quality light clays to medium clays. | |
Kopsia arborea | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Korthalsella rubra sub sp. geijericola, subsp. rubra | Parasitic plant. | |
Kunzea affinis | Sands to fatty loams. | |
Kunzea ambigua | Sands to light gritty clays. | |
Kunzea bracteolata | Granite sands. | |
Kunzea capitata | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Kunzea opposita | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Kunzea parvifolia | Sads and sandy loams from Granite. | |
Kunzea pauciflora | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Laccospadix australasicus | Better quality granitic loams. | |
Lagunaria patersonii | Better quality medium clays from basalt. | |
Lambertia echinata | Gravelly clays and gravelly sandy clays. | |
Lambertia formosa | Most accumulated sands and Sandstone. | |
Landoltia punctata | Floating water born plant. | |
Lasiopetalum ferrugineum | Most soils from sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Lastreopsis acuminate | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Lastreopsis decomposita | Most better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Lastreopsis marginans | Most better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Lastreopsis microsora | Most better quality loams to heavy clays. | |
Lastreopsis munita | Most soils from sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Laxmannia gracilis | Most soils from fatty sands to light clays. | |
Lechenaultia biloba | Sands to fatty loams from sandstone & granites. | |
Lechenaultia formosum | Sands to fatty loams from granites. | |
Leea indica | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Legnephora moorei | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Leiocarpa serpens | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Lemna trisulca | Floating water born plant. | |
Lepiderema pulchella | Better quality light clays to medium clays. | |
Lepidosperma concavum | Most soils from sandy loams to light clays. | |
Lepidosperma elatius | Most soils from sandy loams to light clays. | |
Lepidosperma filiforme | Most soils from sandy loams to light clays. | |
Lepidosperma gunnii | Most soils from sandy loams to light clays. | |
Lepidosperma latens | Most soils from sandy loams to fatty sands. | |
Lepidosperma laterale | Most soils from sandy loams to light clays. | |
Lepidosperma limicola | Most sands to sandy loams. | |
Lepidosperma longitudinale | Most sands to sandy loams. | |
Lepidosperma quadrangulatum | Most sands to sandy loams. | |
Lepidosperma tortuosum | Most sands to sandy loams. | |
Lepidosperma urophorum | Most sands to sandy loams. | |
Lepidosperma urophorum | Most soils to medium clays and heavy silts. | |
Lepironia articulata | Most soils to medium clays and heavy silts. | |
Leptospermum arachnoides | Skeletal rocky terrain. | |
Leptospermum benwellii | Skeletal rocky terrain with medium clay soils. | |
Leptospermum brachyandra | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Leptospermum brevipes | Better quality sandy loams to light clays. | |
Leptospermum gregarium | Better quality sandy loams to light clays. | |
Leptospermum juniperinum | Skeletal rocky terrain with sand to medium clay soils. | |
Leptospermum leuhmannii | Better quality sandy loams to light clays. | |
Leptospermum microcarpum | Skeletal rocky terrain with sand to medium clay soils. | |
Leptospermum minutifolium | Sands to sandy loams derived from Granite. | |
Leptospermum novae-angliae | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Leptospermum petersonii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Leptospermum rotundifolium | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Leptospermum scoparium | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Leptospermum semibaccatum | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Leptospermum speciosum | Wet sands to wet sandy loams. | |
Leptospermum squarrosum | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Leptospermum trinervium | Peaty sands to sandy loams. | |
Leptospermum variabile | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Leucochrysum albicans | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Leucopogon biflorus | White to grey accumulated sands. | |
Leucopogon deformis | White to grey accumulated sands. | |
Leucopogon ericoides | White to grey accumulated sands & red sandstone. | |
Leucopogon esquamatus | Sandy loams to light clays derived from sandstone. | |
Leucopogon juniperinus | Sandy loams to light clays derived from sandstone. | |
Leucopogon lanceolatus | Fatty sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Leucopogon leptospermoides | Accumulated sand and peaty beach sands. | |
Leucopogon margarodes | Accumulated sand and peaty beach sands. | |
Leucopogon melaleucoides | Decomposed granite sands to fatty sandy clays. | |
Leucopogon neoanglicus | Decomposed granite sands to fatty sandy clays. | |
Leucopogon parviflorus | Accumulated or deposited sands and silts. | |
Leucopogon recurvisepalus | Light fatty sands to light sandy clays. | |
Leucopogon rodwayi | Skeletal gravelly to rocky sandstones. | |
Leucopogon trichostylus | Granitic and basalt light sandy clays to medium clays. | |
Leucopogon virgatus | Granitic and basalt light sandy clays to light clays. | |
Libertia paniculata | Most waterlogged soils. | |
Ligustrum australianum | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Litsaea incisa | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Linospadix minor | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Linospadix monostachya | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Liparophyllum exaltatum | Most waterlogged ands to sandy loams. | |
Lipocarpha microcephala | Most moist sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Litsea australis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Litsea reticulata | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Livistona concinna | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Livistona humilis | Most sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Livistona inermis | Most sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Livinstona lanuginosa | Most sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Livistona mariae | Most sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Livistona muelleri | Most sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Livistona rigida | Most sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Livistona victoriae | Most sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Lobelia andrewsii | Most sandy loams, light fatty clays to medium silts. | |
Lobelia membranacea | Most sandy loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Lobelia trigonocaulis | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Logania pusilla | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Lomandra banksii | Most sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Lomandra elongata | Most sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Lomandra filiformis | Fertile sandy loams to heavy fertile clays. | |
Lomandra hystrix | Most sandy loams, light fatty clays to heavy silts. | |
Lomandra laxa | Most sandy loams, light fatty clays. | |
Lomandra leucocephala | Most sandy loams, light fatty clays to heavy silts. | |
Lomandra obliqua | Most sandy loams, light fatty clays to heavy silts. | |
Lomandra spicata | Most sandy loams, light fatty clays to heavy silts. | |
Lomatia arborescens | Most sandy loams medium clays. | |
Lomatia fraseri | Most sandy loams medium clays. | |
Lomatia silaifolia | Most sandy loams medium clays. | |
Lophostemon confertus | Most sandy loams medium clays. | |
Lophostemon suaveolens | Most sandy loams medium clays. | |
Lotus australis | Most sandy loams medium clays. | |
Ludwigia octovalvis | Most sandy loams medium clays. | |
Ludwigia peploides subsp. montividensis | Most sandy loams medium clays. | |
Luffa aegyptiaca var. leiocarpa | Better quality sandy loams to light fertile clays. | |
Lanasia amara | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays, light silts to heavy silts or accumulated peaty beach sands. | |
Lycopodiella cernua | Light clays loams to medium clays. | |
Lycopodiella lateralis | Light clays loams to medium clays. | |
Lycopodiella serpentina | Light clays loams to medium clays. | |
Lycopodium deuterodensum | Better quality sandy loams to light fertile clays. | |
Lycopus australis | Better quality sandy loams to medium fertile silts. | |
Lygodium japonicum | Better quality sandy loams to medium fertile silts. | |
Lygodium microphyllum | Better quality sandy loams to medium fertile silts. | |
Lysimachia japonica | Better quality sandy loams to medium fertile silts. | |
Lythrum hyssopifolia | Better quality sandy loams to medium fertile silts. | |
Lythrum salicaria | Better quality sandy loams to medium fertile silts. | |
Macadamia integrifolia | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Macadamia tetraphylla | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Mackinlaya macrosciadea | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Maclura cochinchinensis | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Macrothelypteris torresiana | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Macrozamia communis | Dry to well developed rainforests. | |
Macrozamia fawcettii | Poor quality sands to light fatty clays. | |
Macrozamia johnsonii | Giant Burrawong. Dry rainforests to Eucalyptus forests. | |
Macrozamia lucida | Small Burrawong. Dry rainforests to Eucalyptus forests. | |
Macrozamia macdonnellii | Sans to light fatty clays in arid zones. | |
Macrozamia miquelii | Small Burrawong. Dry rainforests to Eucalyptus forests. | |
Macrozamia moorei | Burrawong. Dry rainforests to Eucalyptus forests. | |
Macrozamia pauli-guilielmi | Burrawong. Dry rainforests to Eucalyptus forests. | |
Maniltoa lenticellata | Cascading Bean. Littoral, dry or monsoonal rainforests. | |
Mallotus claoxyloides var. ficifolius | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Mallotus discolor | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Mallotus philippensis | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Mallotus polyadenos | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Malvastrum coromandelianum | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Marsdenia flavescens | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Marsdenia fraseri | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Marsdenia hemiptera | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Marsdenia liisae | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Marsdenia lloydii | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Marsdenia longiloba | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Marsdenia rostrata | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Maundia triglochinoides | Better quality, water logged heavy clays. | |
Maytenus bilocularis | Average sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Maytenus silvestris | Average sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Mazus pumilio | Moist granitic sands and accumulated sands. | |
Megahertzia amplexicaulis | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Meiogyne stenopetala | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Melaleuca accuminata | Feather honey Myrtle. Gravelly sand plains | |
Melaleuca alternifolia | Tea Tree. Flat coastal plains & wallums. | |
Melaleuca armillaris | Fine Leaf Tea Tree. Sand plains and hills. | |
Melaleuca bracteata | Black or Golden Tea Tree. Riparian zones. | |
Melaleuca brevifolia | Mallee honey myrtle. | |
Melaleuca citrine | Lemon scented Bottlebrush. | |
Melaleuca comboyensis | Lemon scented Bottlebrush. | |
Melaleuca densa | Lemon Honey Myrtle. | |
Melaleuca formosus | Sandy loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Melaleuca hypericifolia | Hill Hock Bottle brush. Sandstone hills. | |
Melaleuca irbyana | Weeping Honey Myrtle. | |
Melaleuca linarifolia | Narrow-leaved paperbark. Alluvials close to parent sandstone outcrops derived from ancient sea beds. | |
Melaleuca microphylla | ||
Melaleuca nesophila | Pink Bottlebrush. | |
Melaleuca pachpyllus | Wallum Bottlebrush.Littoral wallums and rainforests. | |
Melaleuca paludosus | River bottlebrush. | |
Melaleuca pearsonii | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Melaleuca phoeniceus | Lesser bottlebrush. | |
Melaleuca polandi | Light clays to medium clays. | |
Melaleuca salicina | Willow leaf Bottlebrush. Alluvial and riparian zones. | |
Melaleuca sieberi | Light silts to medium silts and medium clays. | |
Melaleuca spathulata | Wet alluvial depressions. | |
Melaleuca squamea | Light silts to light fatty clays. | |
Melaleuca styphelioides | Alluvial close to parent sandstone outcrops & podsolic soils. | |
Melaleuca tamariscina | Medium silts to heavy clays. | |
Melaleuca thymifolia | Thyme Honey Myrtle. Coastal and inland swamps and Wallums. | |
Melaleuca viridiflora. | Light silts to heavy podsolic soils. | |
Melanthera biflora | Fine to coarse sandy soils. | |
Melastoma affine | Light silts to heavy clay. | |
Melia azedarach | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Melichrus hirsutus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Melichrus procumbens | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Melichrus sp. Gibberagee | Red sandy loams to red medium podsolic soils. | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Sandy loams to red medium podsolic soils. | |
Melicope hayesii | Sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Melicope micrococca | Sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Melicytus dentatus | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Mentha diemenica | Sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Mentha satureioides | Sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Micrantheum ericoides | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Micrantheum hexandrum | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Microcitrus australasica | Light gritty clays to medium clays. | |
Microlaena stipoides | Coarse sands to medium clays | |
Micromelum minutum | Grows in all types of dry forest on stony screes. | |
Microsorum pustulatum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Microsorum pustulatum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Microsorum scandens | Deep sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Mischocarpus anodontus | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Mischocarpus australis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Mischocarpus pyriformis | Better quality sandy loams to light-medium clays. | |
Mitrasacme alsinoides | Sandy loams, medium clays light slits to heavy silts. | |
Mitrasacme polymorpha | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Momordica balsamina | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Momordica charantia | Better quality sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Monotoca scoparia | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Morinda canthoides | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Morinda citrifolia | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Morinda jasminoides | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Mucuna gigantean sub sp. gigantea | Better quality sandy loams, medium clays light to medium silts. | |
Muehlenbeckia auxillaris | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Muehlenbeckia gracillima | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Murdannia graminea | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Musa banksii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Myoporum betcheanum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Myriophyllum variifolium | Sandy loams, medium clays, light to medium silts. | |
Myristica insipida | Fertile loams to medium clays and stony screes. | |
Myristica globasa subsp. muelleri | Fertile loams to medium clays. | |
Myrsine benthamiana | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Myrsine howittiana | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Myrsine variabilis. | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nauclea orientalis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Neisosperma poweri | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nelumbo nucifera | Better quality sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Nematolepis squamea | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Neofabricia myrtifolia | Yellow Tea Tree. Better quality sandy loams to light clays. | |
Neolitsea australiensis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Neolitsea dealbata | Bolly Gum. Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Nephrolepis arida | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nephrolepis biserrata | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nephrolepis cordifolia | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nephrolepis hirsutula | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nicotiana forsteri | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Niemeyera whitei | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Normanbya normanbyi | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Notalea johnsonii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Notelaea johnsonii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Notelaea longifolia | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Notelaea ovata | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Notelaea venosa | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nothofagus moorei | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nymphaea gigantea | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nymphaea violacea | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nymphoides geminata | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Nymphoides indica | Better quality light silts to heavy silts. | |
Nyssanthes diffusa | Light clays, heavy clays & light silts to heavy silts. | |
Ochrosperma citriodorum | Coastal sands and peaty heaths. | |
Ochrosperma lineare | Coastal back dunes on white sands. | |
Olax angulata | Accumulated sand or decomposed sandstone. | |
Olea paniculata | Light clays to medium clays. | |
Olearia argophylla | Sand, sandy loams, light clays or light silts. | |
Olearia canescens | Loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Olearia cydoniifolia | Poorer quality sands to light gritty clays. | |
Olearia elliptica | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Olearia erubescens | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Olearia flocktoniae | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Olearie nernstii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Olearia stilwelliae | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Opercularia hispida | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Oplismenus aemulus | Sandy loams, medium clays to medium silts. | |
Oplismenus imbecillis | Sandy loams, medium clays to medium silts. | |
Oplismenus undulatifolius | Sandy loams, medium clays to medium silts. | |
Orites excelsus | Sandy loams, medium clays to medium silts. | |
Orthoceras strictum | Sandy loams, medium clays to medium silts. | |
Orthosiphon aristatus | Sandy loams, medium clays to medium silts. | |
Ormosia ormondii | Red Bean. Riparian zones in tropical rainforests. | |
Osbeckia australiana | Sandy loams, light gritty clays to medium silts. | |
Ottelia ovalifolia | Wet sandy loams, light clays to heavy sludge. | |
O ttochloa gracillima | Sandy loams, light gritty clays to medium silts. | |
Oxalis chnoodes | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Oxalis exilis | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Oxalis perennans | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Oxylobium arborescens | Fine sands to gritty medium clays. | |
Oxylobium robustum | Fine sands to gritty light clays. | |
Ozothamnus bidwillii | Fine sands to medium clays. | |
Ozothamnus diosmifolius | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Ozothamnus obcordatus | Course sands to medium clays. | |
Ozothamnus obovatus | Course sands to medium gritty clays. | |
Ozothamnus rufescens | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Ozothamnus thyrsoideus | Course sands to light fatty clays. | |
Ozothamnus whitei | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Palmeria scandens | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pandanus conicus | Fine sands to light fatty clays. | |
Pandorea jasminoides | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pandorea nervosa | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pandorea pandorana | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Panicum bisulcatum | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Panicum decompositum | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Panicum effusum | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Panicum obseptum | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Panicum paludosum | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Panicum pygmaeum | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Panicum queenslandicum | Sandy loams to heavy clays & heavy silts. | |
Panicum simile | Sandy loams to medium clays & heavy silts. | |
Pararchidendron pruinosum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paristolochia praenevosa | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Parsonsia dorrigoensis | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Parsonsia fulva | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Parsonsia induplicata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Parsonsia lanceolata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Parsonsia longipetiolata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paspalidium aversum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paspalidium aversum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paspalidium criniforme | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paspalidium distans | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paspalidium gausum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paspalidium grandispiculatum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paspalum distichum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paspalum orbiculare | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Paspalum vaginatum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Passiflora aurantia | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Passiflora cinnabarina | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Passiflora herbertiana | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Patersonia glabrata | Sand loams to sandy loams. | |
Patersonia longifolia | Sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Patersonia sericea | Sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pavetta australiensis | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pelargonium australe | Sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pelargonium helmsii | Skeletal sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pelargonium inodorum | Sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pelargonium rodneyanum | Sand, sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pellaea falcata | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pellaea nana | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pellaea paradoxa | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pennisetum alopecuroides | Sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Pentaceras australe | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Persicaria attenuata | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Persicaria decipiens | Sandy loams to medium clays to medium silts. | |
Persicaria dichotoma | Sandy loams to medium clays to medium silts. | |
Persicaria elatior | Sandy loams to medium clays to medium silts. | |
Persicaria hydropiper | Sandy loams to medium clays & heavy silts. | |
Persicaria stigosa | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Persicaria subsessilis | Sandy loams to medium clays & medium silts. | |
Persoonia media | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Persoonia oleoides | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Petalostigma pubescens | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Petalostigma triloculare | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Petermannia cirrosa | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Petrophile canescens | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Petrophile pulchella | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Phaius australis | Rich peaty acidic sands. | |
Phebalium nottii | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Phebalium squamulosum | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Philotheca conduplicata | Peaty sands to light fatty clays. | |
Philotheca diformis | Peaty sands to light fatty clays. | |
Philotheca myoporoides | Peaty sands to light fatty clays. | |
Philotheca verrucosus | Peaty sands to light fatty clays. | |
Philydrum lanuginosum | Peaty sands to medium clays & heavy silts. | |
Phyllanthus gunnii | Rocky, gravelly & stony skeletal soils. | |
Phyllanthus cuscutiflorus | Rocky, gravelly & stony skeletal soils. | |
Phyllanthus hirtellus | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Phyllanthus microcladus | Sandy loams to light clays. | |
Phyllanthus similis | Sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Phyllanthus subcrenulatus | Sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Phyllota phylicoides | Sandy loams to light gritty or fatty clays. | |
Pilidiostigma glabrum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pimelea glauca | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pimelea latifolia subsp. altior (red), subsp. elliptifolia(blue), subsp. hirsute (purple) & subsp. latifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pimelea ligustrina subsp. ciliate, subsp. hypericina & subsp. ligustrina | Sandy loams to medium clays with gravel. | |
Pimelea linifolia subsp. caesia, subsp. linifolia & subsp. linoides | Sandy loams to medium clays with gravel. | |
Pimelea neo-anglica | Sandy loams to medium clays with gravel. | |
Piper hederaceum subsp. hederaceum & subsp. longiorispicum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pipturus argenteus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pittosporum lancifolium | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Pittosporum multiflorum | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Pittosporum revolutum | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Pittosporum undulatum | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Pittosporum venulosum | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Planchonella australis | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Planchonella chartacea | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Planchonella pohlmaniana | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Plantago debilis | Most sandy loams to sandy loams soils | |
Platylobium formosum | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Platysace ericoides | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Platysace heterophylla | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Platysace lanceolata | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Platysace stephensonii | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Plectranthus alloplectus | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Plectranthus apreptus | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Plectranthus cremnus | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Plectranthus graniticola | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Plectranthus gratus | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Plectranthus graveolens | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Plectranthus nitidus | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Plectranthus parviflorus | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Plectranthus sauveolens | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pneumatopteris sogerensis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Poa billardierei | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Poa labillardierei subsp. acris, subsp. labillardier | Peaty sands to medium clays & heavy silts. | |
Poa queenslandica | Peaty sands to light fatty clays. | |
Poa sieberiana subsp. hirtella & subsp. sieberiana | Peaty sands to medium clays & heavy silts. | |
Podocarpus elatus | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Podocarpus lawrencei | Skeletal granitic sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Podolepis neglecta | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Podolobium aciculiferum | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Podolobium aestivum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Podolobium ilicifolium | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Podolobium scandens | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pollia crispata | Skeletal sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Polyalthia nitidissima | Sandy loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Polycarpaea corymbosa | Skeletal sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Polygala japonica | Skeletal sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Polygala linariifolia | Skeletal sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Polyosma cunninghamii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Polyscias elegans | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Polyscias murrayi | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Polyscias sambucifolia subsp. decomposita & subsp. sambuafolia | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays & podsolics. | |
Polyscias sp.1 | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Polystichum australiense | Better quality light clays to heavy. | |
Polystichum formosum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Polystichum proliferum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pomaderris argyrophylla | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pomaderris eriocephala | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pomaderris ferruginea | Sandy loams to light fatty clays including shale. | |
Pomaderris intermedia | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pomaderris lanigera | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pomaderris ledifolia | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pomaderris ligustrina | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pomaderris nitidula | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pomaderris prunifolia subsp. prunifolia | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pomaderris subcapitata | Light fatty clays to medium clays. | |
Pomax umbellata | Sandy loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Poranthera corymbosa | Well drained poor quality sands to light fatty clays. | |
Poranthera ericifolia | Well drained sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Poranthera microphylla | Well drained sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Poranthera obovata | Well drained sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Potamogeton octandrus | Better quality light alluvial silts to heavy silts. | |
Potamogeton perfoliatus | Better quality light alluvial silts to heavy silts. | |
Potamogeton tricarinatus | Better quality light alluvial silts to heavy silts. | |
Potamophila parviflora | Better quality medium alluvial silts to heavy silts. | |
Pouteria eerwah | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pouteria papyracea | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pouteria queenslandica | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pratia pedunculata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pratia purpurascencs | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Premna lignum-vitae | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Priophys amboidensis | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Priophys cunninghammii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Prostanthera caerulea | Rocky & gravelly skeletal medium clays. | |
Prostanthera incisa | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Prostanthera lanceolata | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Prostanthera lasianthos | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Prostanthera nivea subsp. nivea, subsp. induta | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Prostanthera ovalifolia | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Prostanthera palustris | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Prostanthera prunelloides | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Prostanthera rhombea | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Prostanthera rotundifolia | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Prostanthera scutellarioides | Better quality loams to heavy clays. | |
Prostanthera sejuncta | Skeletal sands & accumulated sands. | |
Prumnopitys ladei | Better quality deep sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Pseudanthus orientalis | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pseudanthus pauciflorus | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pseudoraphis paradoxa | Sandy loams to heavy clays & heavy silts. | |
Pseudoweinmannia lachnocarpa | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pseuduvaria froggattii | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pseuduvaria villose | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Psychotria daphnoides | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Psychotria loniceroides | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Psychotria simmondsiana | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Psydrax lamprophylla var. lamprophylla | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pteris comons | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pteris ensiformis | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pteris tremula | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pteris umbrosa | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pteris vittata | Cliff faces to better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis baptistii | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis curta | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis daintreana | Skeletal sandstones. | |
Pterostylis erecta | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis fischii | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pterostylis furcata | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis grandiflora | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pterostylis hildae | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis hispidula | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis longifolia | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis mutica | Better quality loams, medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Pterostylis nutans | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis obtusa | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis ophioglossa | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis parviflora | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis pedunculata | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pterostylis russellii | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Ptilotus macrocephalis | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Ptychospermum elegans | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pultenaea alea | Poor to medium quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pultenaea daphnoides | Average quality gravelly loams to medium clays. | |
Pultenaea dentata | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pultenaea euchila | Poor to medium quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pultenaea flexilis | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pultenaea myrtoides | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pultenaea petiolaris | Poor to medium quality loams to medium clays. | |
Pultenaea pycnocephala | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Pultenaea retusa | Average quality gravelly loams to medium clays. | |
Pultenaea robusta | Average quality gravelly loams to medium clays. | |
Pultenaea spinosa. | Sandy loams to sandy medium clays. | |
Quassia sp. mooney creek | Light clays to sandy medium clays. | |
Quassia sp. mount nardi | Light clays to sandy medium clays. | |
Quintinia sieberi | Average quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Quintinia verdonii | Average quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Ranunculus inundatus | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Ranunculus lappaceus | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Ranunculus plebeius | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Regelia megacephala | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Regelia velatina | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Rhodamnia rubescens | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Rhodanthe anthemoides | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Rhodomyrtus psidioides | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Rhodosphaera rhodanthema | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Rhyn Rhychospora brownie | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Rhysotoechia bifoliolata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Rhytidosporum procumbens | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Ripogonum album | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Ripogonum brevifolium | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Ripogonum discolor | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Ripogonum elseyanum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Ripogonum fawcettianum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Rorippa dictyosperma | Medium clays to heavy clays. | |
Rorippa gigantea | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Rorippa laciniata | Medium clays to heavy clays. | |
Rubus moluccanus | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Rubus nebulosus | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Rubus parvifolius | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Rubus probus | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Rubus queenslandicus | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Rubus rosifolius | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Rulingia dasyphylla | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Rulingia salviifolia | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Rumex brownii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Rutidosis heterogama | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Rytidosperma longifolium | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Rytidosperma tenuius | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sacciolepis indica | Sandy loams to gritty or gravelly medium clays. | |
Salvia plebeia | Wet mud, ephemeral pools and permanent water. | |
Sambucus australisica | Sandy loams to medium gritty clays. | |
Sannantha angusta | Sandy loams to medium gritty clays. | |
Sannantha collina | Sandy loams to medium gritty clays. | |
Santalum obtusifolium | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sarcomelicope simplicifolia subsp. simlicifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sarcopetalum harveyanum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sarcopteryx stipata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sarcotoechia lanceolata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sarcotoechia serrata | Light red clays to medium red clays. | |
Sauropus albiflorus | Light red clays to medium red clays. | |
Sauropus hirtellus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Scaevola calliptera | Sands to lateritic light gravelly clays. | |
Scaevola hookeri | Sands to peaty sands. | |
Scaevola oxyclona | Red or orange rocky outcrops and ranges. | |
Schelhammera undulata | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Scheflerra actinophyla | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Schizomeria ovata | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Schizachyrium fragile | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Schoenoplectus mucronatus | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Schoenus apogon | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Schoenus brevifolius | Moist sandy loams to medium silts. | |
Schoenus ericetorum | Moist sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Schoenus maschalinus | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Schoenus melanostachys | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Schoenus turbinatus | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Schoenus vaginatus | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Scleria rugosa | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Scleria tricuspidata | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Scolopia braunii | Moist sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Secamone elliptica | Moist sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Senecio amygdalifolius | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senecio bipinnatisectus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senecio diaschides | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senecio linearifolius | Sandy loams to fatty clays. | |
Senecio minimus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senecio pinnatifolius subsp. pinnatifolius & subsp. serratus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senecio prenanthoides | Rocky loams to rocky medium clays. | |
Senecio tenuiflorus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senecio vagus subsp. eglandulosus & subsp. vagus | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senegalia albizioides | Rocky loams to rocky medium clays. | |
Senna acclinis | Sandy loams to light clay loams. | |
Senna cardiosperma | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senna clavigera | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Senna ferraria | Skeletal rocky sands to skeletal rocky clays. | |
Senna notabalis | Light clays to medium clays. | |
Senna odorata | Skeletal light clays to skeletal medium clays. | |
Senna stricta | Light acidic to alkaline Light clays to medium clays. | |
Senna symonii | Light clays to medium clays. | |
Senna venusta | Acidic lateritic sands to acidic lateritic light clay. | |
Seringia arborescens | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sicyos australis | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sigesbeckia orientalis subsp. orientalis | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Siphonodon australis | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Sloanea australis | Better quality gravelly light to medium clays. | |
Sloanea woollsii | Better quality gravelly light to medium clays. | |
Smilax australis | Better quality loams to medium clays. | |
Smilax glyciphylla | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum americanum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum aviculare | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum campanulatum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum centrale | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Solanum corifolium | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum densevestitum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum ditrichum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum erianthum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum gabrielae | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum hapalum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum inaequilaterum | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Solanum laciniatum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum nobile | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum nummularium | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum opacum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum parvifolium | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum plicatile | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum prinophylum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum semiarmatum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum stelligerum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum vescum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solanum vicinum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Solenogyne bellioides | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sophora fraseri | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sophora tomentosa subsp. australis & subsp. tomentosa. | Accumulated sands. | |
Sowerbaea juncea | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Spartothamnella juncea | Light clays to heavy clays. | |
Spermacoce brachystema | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sphaerolobium vimineum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sprengelia sprengelioides | White peaty accumulated sands. | |
Sporobolus laxus | Sands to light fatty clays or gritty clays. | |
Spyridium scortechinii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Stackhousia spathulata | Sandy loams to light-medium clays. | |
Stackhousia viminea | Sandy loams to light-medium clays. | |
Stellaria angustifolia subsp. angustifolia, subsp. rotundisepala & subsp. tenella | Sandy loams to light-medium clays. | |
Stenocarpus salignus | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Stenocarpus sinuatis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Stenphania japonica | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sterculia quadrifida | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sticherus flabellatus | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sticherus lobatus | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Sticherus urceolatus | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Streblus pendulinus | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Streptothamnus moorei | Better quality light clays to medium clays. | |
Strychnos arborea | Better quality light clays to medium clays. | |
Styphelia triflora | Sands to sandy loams. | |
Styphelia viridis subsp. breviflora & subsp. viridis | Sands to sandy loams. | |
Swainsona brachycarpa | Gravels amongst rocks and boulders. | |
Swainsona canescens | Sands to sandy loams. | |
Swainsona galegifolia | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Swainsona greyana | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Swainsona maccullochiana | Stony and gravely medium clays. | |
Swainsona procumbens | Heavy grey alluvial silts and clays. | |
Symplocos stawellii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Symplocos thwaitesii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syncarpia glomulifera subsp. glabra & subsp. glomulifera | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Synonum glandulosum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium alliiligneum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium buettnerianum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium corianthum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium cormiflorum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium crebrinerve | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium cryptophlebium | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium erythrocalyx | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium erythrodoxum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium fibrosum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium forte subsp. potamophilum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium francisii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium hodgkinsoniae | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium ingens | Better quality basalts & meatamorphic rocks. | |
Syzygium leuhmannii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium malaccense | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium moorei | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium oleosum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium smithii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium tierneyanun | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Syzygium wilsonii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tabernaemontana pandacaqui | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tapeinochilos ananassae | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tasmannia insipida | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tasmannia stipita | Better quality sands to light fatty clays. | |
Tecomanthe hillii | Peaty beach sands to light fatty clays. | |
Telopea speciossima | Sandy soils to light fatty clays. | |
Tephrosia brachyodon | Sandy soils loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Tephrosia gordum-solace | Sandy soils loams to light clays to screes. | |
Tephrosia filipes | Sandy soils loams to medium clays to heavy silts. | |
Terminalia arostrata | Medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Ternstroemia nordtiana | Better quality light to medium clays. | |
Tetrarrhena juncea | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tetrastigma nitens | Most better quality soils including limestone. | |
Tetratheca juncea | Most types of sand to medium clays. | |
Tetratheca thymifolia | Most types of sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Teucrium argutum | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Teucrium corymbosum | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Thaleropia queenslandica | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Thelymitra angustifolia | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Thelymitra fragrans | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Thelymitra ixioides subsp. ixioides | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Thelymitra malvina | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Thelymitra pauciflora | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Thelymitra purpurata | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Themeda triandra | Most acid sandy soils to medium clays. | |
Thryptomene costata | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Thryptomene denticulata | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Thryptomene lancelin | Accumulated sands and coral sands. | |
Thryptomene saxicola | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Thryptomene urceolaris | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Thysanotus juncifolius | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Thysanotus tuberosus subsp. tuberosus | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tinospora smilacina | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Todea barbara | Poorer quality sands, light fatty clays or silts. | |
Toechima dasyrrhache | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Toechima tenax | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Toona ciliate | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Trachymene composite | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Trachymene incise | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Trachymene procumbens | Sandy loams to light gritty clays. | |
Tragia novae-hollandiae | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Trema tomentosa sub sp. aspera & sub sp. tomentosa. | Better quality loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Trichodesma zeylanicum | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Trichosanthus cucumerina | Better quality rocky loams to rocky medium clays. | |
Trichosanthus subvelutina | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tricoryne elatior | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tricostularia pauciflora | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Trimenia moorei | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tripladenia cunninghamii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Triplarina imbricata | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tristaniopsis collina | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tristaniopsis laurina | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Triunia youngiana | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Trochocarpa laurina | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Trochocarpa montana | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Trophis scandens subsp. scandens | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. | |
Turraea pubescens | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tylophora barbata | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tylophora benthamii | Sands to light sandy clays | |
Tylophora grandiflora | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Tylophora woollsii | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Typha orientalis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Typhonium brownii | Light clays, medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Uraria lagopodioides | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Uromyrtus australis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Uromyrtus lamingtonensis | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Urtica incisa | Better quality sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Utricularia aurea | Light clays, medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Utricularia australis | Light clays, medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Utricularia biloba | Light clays, medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Utricularia caerulea | Medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Utricularia dichotoma | Medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Utricularia gibba | Medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Utricularia gibba | Medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Utricularia lateriflora | Peaty beach sands. | |
Utricularia lateriflora | Peaty beach sands. | |
Utricularia uliginosa | Peaty beach sands. | |
Utricularia uniflora | Light clays, medium silts to heavy silts. | |
Uvaria leichhardti | Better quality light clays to medium clays. | |
Vallisneria australis | Submergent plant on light silts to heavy silts. | |
Velleia paradoxa | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Velleia spathulata | Light silts to heavy silts. | |
Verbena gaudichaudii | Light silts to heavy clays. | |
Vernonia cinerea | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Veronica grosseserrata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Veronica plebeian | Light silts to heavy silts. | |
Verticordia auriculata | Light silts to heavy silts. | |
Verticordia brownii | Light silts to heavy silts. | |
Verticordia grandis | Coarse sands to light fatty clays. High end salt. | |
Verticordia mitchelliana | Coarse sands to light fatty clays. | |
Vesselowskya rubifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Vesselowskya venusta | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Viminaria juncea | ||
Viola banksii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Viola betonicifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Viola caleyana | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Viola hederacea | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Viola silicestris | Sandy loams to light gravelly clays. | |
Vittadinia hispidula subsp. hispidula | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Vittadinia hispidula subsp. setosa | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Wahlenbergia communis | Light to heavy silts. | |
Wahlenbergia gracilis | Light to heavy silts. | |
Wahlenbergia stricta | Light to heavy silts. | |
Waterhousea floribunda | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Waterhousea unipunctata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Wedelia spilanthoides | Sandy loams to heavy clays. | |
Westringia amabilis | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Willdampia formosa | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Wodyetia bifurcate | Sandy loams to gravelly clays. | |
Wolffia angusta | Water tolerances. | |
Woollsia pungens | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Wrightia laevis | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Wrightia pubescens | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Wrightia saligna | Skeletal sands to rocky or gravelly medium clays. | |
Wurmbea biglandulosa | Skeletal sands to rocky or gravelly medium clays. | |
Xanthophyllum fragrans | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xanthophyllum octandrum | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xanthorrhoea fulva | Accumulated beach sands. | |
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. glauca | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xanthorrhoea johnsonii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xanthorrhoea latifolia subsp. latifolia | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xanthorrhoea latifolia subsp. maxima | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xanthorrhoea macronema | Sandy loams to rocky light clays. | |
Xanthorrhoea malacophylla | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xanthosia pilosa | Sandy loams to rocky light clays. | |
Xanthostemon chrysanthus | Light clays to heavy clays. | |
Xanthostemon paradoxus | Skeletal rocky loams among boulders. | |
Xanthostemon whitei | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Xylosma terrae-reginea | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xyris bracteata | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Xyris complanata | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Xyris gracilis | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Xyris juncea | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Xyris operculata | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum | ||
Zeuxine oblonga | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Zieria arborescens subsp. arborescens | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Zieria arborescens subsp. deccurens | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Zieria compacta | Sands to light gravelly fatty clays and screes. | |
Zieria furfuracea | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Zieria laevigata | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Zieria laxiflora | Wet sands derived from granite or beach sands. | |
Zieria prostrata | Sands to light fatty clays. | |
Zieria smithii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Zieria southwellii | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Ziziphus oenopolia | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. | |
Zornia dyctiocarpa | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Zornia floribunda | Sandy loams to medium clays. | |
Zornia muriculata | Sandy loams to medium clays podsolics &screes. | |
Slightly saline soils.
Proper name | Comments. |
Ozothamnus obcordatus | |
Acacia elata | Decomposed sandstones, basalt and dolerites. |
Acacia mearnsii | Late black wattle. (2) Possible weed spp. |
Acacia melanoxylon | Tasmanian blackwood. |
Acradenia euodiiformis | Basalt soils or humus rich accumulated sands. |
Adiantum aethiopicum | Most medium clays derived from basalts & shale. |
Adiantum atroviride | Most medium clays derived from basalts. |
Adiantum formosum | Most medium clays derived from basalts & metamorphic rocks. |
Adiantum hispidulum | Most medium clays derived from basalts. |
Agiortia cicatricata | Course skeletal sands derived from granite. |
Aglaia brassii | Light to medium clays derived from basalts. |
Allocassuarina rigida | Course fatty sands to medium clays derived from basalts or granite. |
Aphanopetalum resinosum | Most better quality soils derived from all types of parent rocks. |
Arachniodes aristata | Most better quality soils derived from basalts. |
Arthrochilus prolixus | Sandy loams with deep leaf litter. |
Atractocarpus benthamianus | Most better quality soils derived from basalts. |
Atractocarpus fitzlanii | Most better quality soils derived from basalts. |
Austromuellera trinervia | Better quality soils derived from black basalts. |
Baloskion stenocoleum | Better quality soils derived from black basalts. |
Bauera capitata | Better quality soils derived from black basalts. |
Bauera rubiodes | Better quality soils derived from black basalts. |
Bertya sp. clouds creek | Steep slopes on soils derived from granites. |
Billbardia rubens | Light to medium clay soils derived from basalt. |
Blandfordia grandiflora | Peaty sands derived from sandstone or accumulated sands. |
Blandfordia nobilis | Peaty sands derived from sandstone or accumulated sands. |
Blechnum pattersonii | Light to medium clays derived from basalts. |
Boehmeria macrophylla | Better quality loams derived from basalts. |
Brachyloma saxicola | Fatty sands to course sands derived from Granite. |
Brachyscome stuartii | Fatty sands to course sands derived from Granite. |
Brasenia schreberi | Most silty alluvials in billabongs and backwaters. |
Bulbine bulbosa | Most wet soils. |
Burchardia umbellata | Most wet soils sandy soils. |
Burmannia disticha | Most wet soils sandy soils. |
Callitris monticola | Course white sands derived from granite. |
Callistemon salignus | Willow bottlebrush on medium clays. |
Carex brunnea | Medium clays derived from basalt or sandstone. |
Caladenia alata | |
Caladenia carnea | Light sandy loams and light clays from sandstone. |
Caladenia catenata | Good quality catena soils. |
Caleana major | Better quality sandy loams from sandstone and granite. |
Calitris oblonga | Sandy loams derived from granite. |
Casuarina cunninghamii | Most sandy to medium clays in rivers and streams. |
Casuarina littoralis | Black she oak. Back dunes and behind mangroves. |
Casuarina stricta | |
Casuarina torulosa | Forest she oak. Back dunes to mountain on basalt. |
Centrolepis fasicularis | Granite sands or accumulated peaty sands. |
Cephalotus follicularis | Granite sands or accumulated peaty sands. |
Cephalomanes caudatum | An epiphyte of cool rainforests. |
Ceratophyllum demersum | Free floating plant in fresh water. |
Chiloglottis diphylla | Good quality sandy loams to light gritty clays |
Chiloglottis sylvestris | Good quality sandy loams to light gritty clays |
Chiloglottis trilabra | Good quality sandy loams to light gritty clays |
Commelina cyanea | Sandy loams to heavy clay soils & light to heavy silts |
Commelina ensifolia | Sandy loams to heavy clay soils & light to heavy silts |
Corybas aconitiflorus | Better quality sandy loams. |
Corybas barbarae | Better quality sandy loams. |
Corybas fordhamii | Better quality sandy loams. |
Corybas hispidus | Better quality sandy loams. |
Corybas undulatus | Better quality sandy loams. |
Corybas erectus | Better quality sandy loams. |
Corybas hunteriana | Better quality sandy loams. |
Corybas subulata | Better quality sandy loams. |
Cynodon dactylon | Blue couch. |
Cyperus platystylis | Floating mats on swamps. |
Damasonium minus | All types of soil strata in fresh water. |
Dawsonia superba subsp.pulchra | Lithiophyte, light clays to heavy clay. |
Daucus glochidiatus | Most better quality sandy loams to medium clays. |
Denhamia moorei | Better quality loams to medium clays derived from black basalt. |
Dicksonia antarctica | Better quality fatty sandy loams to medium clays. |
Dicksonia youngiae | Better quality loams to medium clays. |
Diplazium assimile | Better quality moist loams to medium clays. |
Diplazium australe | Better quality moist loams to medium clays. |
Diplazium dilatatum | Better quality moist loams to medium clays. |
Drosera adelae | Poor basalt rocks. |
DrDr Drosera binata | Poor porous wet wallum sands. |
Era Drosera burmanni | Poor porous wet wallum sands. |
Drosera peltata | Poor porous wet wallum sands. |
Drosera pygmaea | Poor porous wet wallum sands. |
era b Drosera spatulata | Poor porous wet wallum sands. |
Drynaria quercifolia | Epiphyte or lithophytes. |
Drynaria rigidula | Epiphyte or lithophytes. |
Drynaria sparsisora | Epiphyte or lithophytes. |
Epacris rhombifolia | Soils derived from sandstone and granite. |
Eucalyptus globulus ssp. Globulus | Blue gum. Light sandy loams to heavy clays. |
Eucalyptus grandis | Rose gum. Rainforests close to parent rocks. |
Exocarrya sclerioides | Better quality volcanic soils. |
Ficus coronata | Better quality soils. |
Flagellaria indica | Better quality medium clays. |
Freycinettia marginata | Better quality light to medium clays & alluvial silts. |
Gaultheria viridicarpa | Better quality basaltic clays mixed with screes. |
Genoplesium fimbriatum | Better quality sandy loams to light gritty clays. |
Genoplesium rufum | Better quality sandy loams to light gritty clays. |
Geodorum densiflorum | Better quality sandy loams to alluvial silts. |
Gmelina dalrympleana | Most types of alluvial deposits. |
Glinus oppositifolius | Most types of alluvial deposits. |
Glossodia major | Most semi fertile to fertile sandy loams to medium clays. |
Glossodia minor | Most semi fertile to fertile sandy loams to medium clays. |
Grammitis billardierei | Most semi fertile to fertile sandy loams to medium clays. |
Grammitis stenophylla | Most semi fertile to fertile sandy loams to medium clays. |
Hibbertia hermanniifolia | Sandy to light fatty clays on granite & sandstone. |
Hymenophyllum australe | Epiphyte or lithophyte on volcanic rocks. |
Hymenophyllum bivalve | Epiphyte or lithophyte on volcanic rocks. |
Hymenophyllum cupressiforme H,T,L, | Epiphyte or lithophyte on volcanic rocks. |
Hymenophyllum flabellatum | Epiphyte or lithophyte on volcanic rocks. |
Lindsaea dimorpha | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Lindsaea linearis | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Lindsaea microphylla | Sandy loams to medium clays. |
Lyperanthus suaveolens | Sandy loams to light gritty clays. |
Macadamia integrifolia | Macca nut. Rainforest hills and slopes. |
Macadamia tetraphylla | Macca nut. Rainforest hills and slopes. |
Mallotus claoxyloides | Green Kamala. Rainforest hills and slopes. |
Mallotus philipensis | Red Kamala. Rainforest hills and slopes. |
Mallotus polyadenos | Kamala. Rainforest hills and slopes. |
Maytenus bilocularis | Orange Bark. Dry, riparian and well developed rainforests. |
Maytenus sylvestris | Narrow Leaf Orange Bark. Dry, riparian and well developed rainforests. |
Melaleuca williamsonii | Granite rocky ridges |
Melicope elleryana | Pink Cork Wood. Rainforests and riparian zones. |
Mischocarpus pyriformis | Woody pear grows in dry rainforests and riparian forests. |
Microtis parviflora | Sandy loams to medium gravelly clays |
Morinda canthoides | Riparian and dry rainforests. |
Morinda jasminoides | Native Jasmine. |
Muehlenbeckia gracillima | Better quality loams to medium clays. |
Murdannia graminea | Better quality loams to medium clays. |
Myrsine benthamiana | Better quality loams to medium clays. |
Neisosperma poweri | Milk Bush. Rainforest understories. |
Nepenthes rowanae | Wet sandy loams to medium gravelly clays. |
Nephrolepis cordifolia | Fishbone Fern. |
Nephrolepis hirsutula | Sandstone gorges and moist forests. |
Ophioglossum reticulatum | Better quality sandy loams to light fatty clays. |
Olearia nernstii | Coastal Daisy. |
Peperomia blanda var. floribunda | Epiphytes or lithophytes. |
Peperomia tetraplylla | Epiphytes or lithophytes. |
Peristeranthus hillii | Epiphytes or lithophytes. |
Phebalium woombye | Sandy loams to light fatty sands & skeletal loams. |
Philotheca papillata | Sandy loams to light fatty sands. |
Phyllachne colensoi | Lithophytes or at times terrestrial. |
Pipturus argenteus | Native Mulberry. Coastal warm Tropical Rainforests. |
Pittosporum angustifolium | Sandy loams to light fatty sands. |
Platycerium bifurcatum | Epiphytes or lithophytes. |
Platycerium superbum | Usually an epiphytes or rarely as a lithophytes. |
Platycerium veitchii | Epiphytes or lithophytes. |
Plectranthus argentatus | Silver Plectranthus. Sandstones near waterfalls. |
Plectranthus graveolens | Common Plectranthus. Skeletal soils on cliff faces. |
Plectranthus sauveolens | Sweet Scented Plectranthus. In and Adjacent to Cool Rainforests. |
Prasophyllum australe | Lithophytes or sandy loams. |
Prasophyllum brevilabre | Lithophytes or sandy loams. |
Prasophyllum elatum | Lithophytes or sandy loams. |
Prasophyllum flavum | Lithophytes or sandy loams. |
Prasophyllum patens | Lithophytes or sandy loams. |
Pseudovanilla foliata | Decaying wood saprophyte. |
Psilotum complanatum | Epiphytes or lithophytes. |
Psilotum nudum | Epiphytes or lithophytes. |
Re Remusatia vivipara | Loams to light fatty clays, lithophyte or Epiphyte. |
Rhaphiodophora australasica | Lithophytes or Epiphytic. |
Rhaphiodophora sp.1 | Lithophytes or Epiphytic. |
Rhinerrhiza divitiflora | Lithophytes or Epiphytic. |
Rhododendron viriosum | Epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial on sandy loams to medium clays. |
Rumohra adiantiformis | Epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial on sandy loams to medium clays. |
Schistotylus purpuratus | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Schizaea bifida | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Schizaea dichotoma | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Schizaea rupestris | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Scirpus polystachyus | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. |
Scleranthus biflorus | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. |
Scleria mackaviensis | Sandy loams to light fatty clays. |
Selaginella uliginosa | Moist to wet sandy loams to light fatty clays. |
Senna odorata | All types of soils mainly derived from basalts. |
Siphonodon australis | Decomposed brown or black basalts and metamorphics. |
Sloanea australis | Better quality decomposed brown or black basalts. |
Sloanea woollsii | Better quality decomposed brown or black basalts. |
Sparganium subglobosum | Sands to sandy loams. |
Sphagnum cristatum | Course sands to fine sands. |
Stylidium debile | Fatty sands to sandy loams. |
Stylidium graminifolium | Fatty sands to sandy loams. |
Stylidium laricifolium | Fatty sands to sandy loams. |
Stylidium paniculatum | Fatty sands to sandy loams. |
Taeniophyllum muelleri | Epiphytic or lithophytes orchid. |
Telopea aspera | Course sands to light fatty clays. |
Viola betonicifolia | Most types of moist, light clays to heavy clays. |
Viola Hederacea | Most types of light clays to heavy clays. |
Wahlenbergia gloriosa | Skeletal, rocky soils. |
Youngia japonica | High end. Poor to fertile sands to medium clays. |
None saline soils.
Proper name | Comments. |
Angiopteris evecta | Most mountain creeks and streams. |
Arthropteris beckleri | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Arthropteris tenella | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Asplenium attenuatum | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Asplenium australisicum | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Asplenium bulbiferum | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Asplenium difforme | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Asplenium flabellifolium | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Asplenium flaccidum | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Asplenium polyodon | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Asplenium nidus | Epiphytic or lithophytes fern. |
Azolla filiculoides | Floats on fresh water. |
Azolla pinnata | Floats on fresh water. |
Bulbophyllum argyropus | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Bulbophyllum bracteatum | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Bulbophyllum elisae | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Bulbophyllum exiguum | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Bulbophyllum minutissimum | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Bulbophyllum schillerianum | Epiphyte or very rarely as a lithophyte. |
Bulbophyllum shepherdii | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Bulbophyllum weinthalii | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Byblis gigantea | Seasonal sandy wallums. |
Byblis filifolia | Seasonal sandy wallums. |
Ceratophyllum demersum | Still water or slow flowing water. |
Cestichis reflexa | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Cestichis swenssonii | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Citrus Trees | Lemons, Oranges, Mandarins grow best in 200 to 400ppm soils. |
Davallia solida | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Dendrobium cucumerinum | Epiphyte. |
Dendrobium gracilicaule | Epiphyte. |
Dendrobium phalaenopsis | Epiphyte. |
Dendrobium pugoiniforme | Epiphyte. |
Dendrobium tetragonum | Epiphyte. |
Elatine gratioloides | Fresh slow running water. |
Erythrorchis cassythoides | Epiphyte. |
Fieldia australis | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Huperzia phlegmaria | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Huperzia phlegmarioides | Epiphyte or lithophyte. |
Leptomeria drupacea | Parasitic plant of Jacksonia scoparia. |
Marsilea drumondii | Fresh water floating fern. |
Melaleuca pallida | Mountain Bottlebrush. Fresh water streams and creeks in mountains. |
Melaleuca subulatus | Highlands Bottlebrush. Fresh water streams and creeks in mountains. |
Melodorum leichardtii | Queensland Pitcher plant. Fresh water swamps. |
Microsorum pustulatum | A climbing fern of well developed cool Rainforests. |
Microsorum scandens | A climbing fern of well developed warm Rainforests. |
Muellerina celastroides | Parasitic Plant mainly on Banksias & Casuarina. |
Muellerina eucalyptoides | Parasitic Plant mainly on Eucalyptus but also on many exotics. |
Myrmecodia beccarii | Ant Plant. Grows as an epiphyte in mangrove and Melaleuca swamps close to the coast. |
Nepenthes mirabilis | Queensland Pitcher plant. Fresh water swamps. |
Nepenthes rowanae | Queensland Pitcher plant. Fresh water swamps. |
Nephrolepis arida | |
Nephrolepis biserrata | Giant Fishbone Fern. |
Ophioglossum pendulum | Epiphyte that grows on rainforest trees. |
Papillilabium beckleri | Epiphyte that grows on rainforest trees. |
Paracaleana minor | Epiphyte that grows on rainforest trees. |
Phaius australis | Swamp orchid. |
Plectorrhiza tridentata | Grows as an epiphyte |
Plectranthus argentatus | Lithophyte, skeletal fatty loams to light fatty clays. |
Plectranthus bellus | Lithophyte, skeletal fatty loams to light fatty clays. |
Pothos longipes | Epiphyte that grows on rainforest trees. |
Pyrossia confluens | A rainforest Lithophyte or Epiphyte. |
Pyrossia lanceolata | A rainforest Lithophyte or Epiphyte. |
Pyrossia longifolia | A rainforest Lithophyte or Epiphyte. |
Pyrossia rupestris | A rainforest Lithophyte or Epiphyte. |
Rhaphidophora australisica | Native Pothos. A hemi epiphyte of tropical rainforests. |
Sarcochilus aequalis | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Sarcochilus australis | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Sarcochilus ceciliae | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Sarcochilus falcatus | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Sarcochilus fitzgeraldii | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Sarcochilus hillii | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Sarcochilus parviflorus | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Sarcochilus spathulatus | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Spiranthes australis | Light clays to medium clays verging on moderately saline soils. |
Tmesipteris obliqua | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Tmesipteris ovata | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Tmesipteris parva | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Tmesipteris truncata | A rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest Epiphyte. |
Vittaria elongata | Epiphytic or an lithophytic orchid on sandstones. |
How to Deal with Saline water: How to Deal with Saline water: First I will deal with some of the problems of how to deal with watering and bore water that is saline.
Let’s look at good watering practices versus bare soils with low carbon.
* A garden that receives too much water will lose over 3 times the amount of water than an adequately watered garden on a very hot summer’s day. That can add up to over 1,500 liters for a 100 square meter garden every day the weather turns hot.
* Frequent light watering is wasted water. More water evaporates from the surface than at depths and is used by the plants.
* Light watering coupled with high evaporation leads to higher salt levels
* The plants in an over watered garden produce soft foliage which tends to lose water more quickly and wilt sooner from stress.
* The plants produce shallow roots instead of deep feeder roots and are less drought tolerant.
* Dry sand requires approximately 25mm of rain to soak down 30mm,
* Dry loam requires approximately 45mm of rain to soak down
30mm,
* Dry clay requires approximately 65mm of rain to soak down 30mm,
* The garden tap delivers around 500 liters an hour. A 10 liter bucket will take 72 seconds to fill or about 7.2 seconds for every liter. The average sprinkler delivers about 300 liters an hour,
* Mulches protect the soil from the affects of evaporation. Mulches over a period of time make lighter and heavier soils more friable and its ability to retain water increases dramatically. The increase depend on the soil type but is between 10mm and 1000mm greater than bare earth,
* Mulches reduce weeds that can use up to 25mm of the soils water,
* Mulched soils with 30mm to 40mm of mulch retain up to 35mm more water than bare soils.
How to deal with Saline soils: This is usually a far more difficult problem to deal with as much damage has been done by the time it has been discovered.
Bottle Water versus Town water versus Rain Water on plants?
The use of rainwater for container plants is far more beneficial than most town water supplies and bottle water.
* Town water contains added dangerous chemicals like chlorine that is toxic to some plants and reacts with the soils natural chemicals increasing the level of metallic salts in the soil. This may also lead to toxicities or deficiencies of some minerals when used for over extended periods.
* Some town water supplies contain the controversial and deadly poison fluoride which again react reacts with the soils natural chemicals increasing the level of metallic salts in the soil. This may also lead to toxicities or deficiencies of some minerals when used for over extended periods.
* Water stored in plastic bottles is presently very controversial and until some in depth long term research evaluates any risks that maybe associated with them. It is probably advisable to refrain from their use.
* Water stored in plastic bottles will vary depending on the original source and the plastic involved.
* First Rain Water contains absorbed Nitrogen, and Oxygen at optimum levels.
* Rain water contains far fewer toxic chemicals and does not contain heavy metals
* Town water often contains nutrients that are leached from local soils and in a ration that the local gene pools of plants have adapted to.
I am not saying that the plastic or the water was directly involved as it may still be the salts in the water I used. What I am saying is I will stick to tank water and steer away from both bottle and Town water wherever possible.
Do not use bottle water as I have tested bottle water on sensitive indoor plants and ferns in China while writing this book. The long term consequences for the plants were disastrous. The results were so bad I have sworn off bottled water and will never drink it again. A bird dropping or two every year in Tank water is far more acceptable. Ask my plants.
Town water is high in chlorides. The addition of chlorine as a fungicide and bactericide has the affect of making soluble salts; that would normally pass through the pot more likely to adhere to containers and soil particles, thus building up to toxic levels more quickly than would be experienced under natural situations. The accumulation of dangerous salts is toxic to many plants. Often it precipitates as a white film around the bottom of the pots (Calcium chloride). In severe cases you will notice the formation of salt crystals, glistening in the sunlight.
It is not known whether it is the toxic levels of chlorine or fluoride or other chemicals or the combination affect have a synergistic outcome on my plants but to me it is taboo.
I am not saying that the plastic or the water was directly involved as it may still be the salts in the water I used. What I am saying is I will stick to tank water and steer away from both bottle and Town water wherever possible. Again a bird dropping or too every year in Tank water is far more acceptable to me than the risks of either fluoridation or chlorine. The combination with organic products to produce BPA – Bisphenol A or BPA is an estrogen-mimicking chemical that has been linked to a host of serious health problems including:
Learning and behavioral problems,
Altered immune system function,
Early puberty in girls and fertility problems,
Decreased sperm count,
Prostate and breast cancer,
Diabetes and obesity.
After all just 50 years ago smoking was claimed to be relaxing and good after a stressful day at work. Who would believe that now?
Ask my plants.
In conclusion if this is harming my plants over a period of several years what is it doing to your body over half a life time?
Town water facts:
Liver cancer is 21mm greater amongst drinkers of chlorinated water compared to those drinking Tank water.
Rectal Cancer is 38mm to 80mm greater amongst drinkers of chlorinated water compared to those drinking Tank water.
Robert D. Morris of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, who directed the new study.
This adverse risks associated with chlorinated water must be considered against the risk of supplying large populations with potable water that is free of diseases like cholera.
Removing Salts from the Soil: This is a very expensive often long term problem. Let’s first look at the problem of excess salt in the soil. Most problems arise because of man’s interference. Irrigation water is the principle cause of salinity followed by rising water tables. Some areas on sandstone which were once submerged beneath the ocean accumulated salts like sodium chloride, boron or even iron or copper chlorides.
Let’s not underestimate the accumulation affects of salt. Irrigation water with a low salt concentration of 0.2 kg/m³ and this is on the low side for almost all Australian river and bore water. If the crops grown required an annual supply of irrigation water of 10,000 m³/ha or about 2mm/day the salts deposited on that hectare would be 2,000kg salt/ha each year. In the absence of sufficient natural drainage; as in waterlogged soils and without an expensive and adequate leaching and drainage program to remove salts, this would lead to high soil salinity and reduced blooms, growth, vitality and crop yields in the long run.
Most of Australia’s rivers and bores tested for irrigation has salt readings of 2 or 3 times higher, coupled with higher usage. Sugar cane, for example, needs about 20000 m3/ha of water per year. As a result, with salinity levels in the range of 0.6kg/m³ these irrigated areas would receive more than 12,000 kg/ha of salt per year.
The other problem exists where the water does not drain away, is used by the plants or high evaporation rates exist.
Irrigation and tree removal changes the natural water balance of the soil. Irrigated water that is not consumed by plants must go somewhere. It is impossible to achieve 100mm irrigation efficiency where all the irrigation water is consumed by the plants or drains away carrying the excess salts with it. The maximum attainable irrigation efficiency recorded on farms is about 70mm under ideal conditions but is usually less than 60mm. This means that minimum 30mm, but usually more than 40mm of the irrigation water is not consumed by the plants. So where does it go?
Most of the water lost this way is stored underground slowly penetrating into deeper layers which changes the original hydrology of local aquifers considerably. Many aquifers cannot absorb and transport this extra water, thus the water table rises leading to water logged soils.
Waterlogged soils causes three major problems:
*The high water table severely reduces the amount of oxygen available in the root zone of trees followed by shrubs and finally annuals which lead to reduced yields in most crops.
*The accumulation of salts deposited with the irrigation water is now accumulating as their removal through the aquifer is unable to be discharged.
* The rise in water tables results in salts already accumulated ate the lower levels now being transported to the surface which really can exasperate the situation.Drainage is the primary method of controlling soil salinity.
Drainage is the primary method of controlling soil salinity. The system should permit a small fraction of the irrigation water. 10 to 20 percent, of the drainage or leaching fraction as it is known should be drained and discharged out of the irrigation project. J.W. van Hoorn and J.G. van Alphen (2006), Salinity Control.
In irrigated areas where salinity is stable, the salt concentration of the drainage water is normally 5 to 10 times higher than that of the irrigation water. That is the volume of salt deposited matches the volume of salt removed creating a balance.
When reclaiming already salinity problem soils, the salt concentration of the drainage water can be as high as 50 times that of the deposited salts. After one or two years, the soil salinity is decreased so much, that the salinity of the drainage water has come down to a normal value and a new, favorable, equilibrium is reached.
In regions with defined dry and wet seasons , the drainage system may be operated in the wet season only, and closed during the dry season.
The disadvantage of the discharge drainage water system is it will create environmental problems to downstream uses, areas and water tables which may receive up to 50 times the amount of salt deposited than was previously deposited. The short and long term environmental hazards must be considered very carefully and, if necessary mitigating measures must be taken. These additional measures coupled with the original drainage works are expensive and personally other methods are far more favourable.
* Micro jets at night will go a long way in diluting salts in the soil. The very fine mist that is sprayed usually 6 to 12 litres an hour is most beneficial in areas where orographic precipitation occurs or where fogs are experienced. This method was applied on our orchard to great affect in the early days. As the mist is jettisoned it collects droplets of water in the fog which contributes to the amount of water delivered to the plants. Added to this as the droplets fall to the ground a lower atmospheric pressure is developed in the spray area which causes more moist air to flow into the area and this in return is collected by the spray droplets and added to the soil. It was estimated that on a good night we collected over 50mm more water than what was pumped to the orchard 10 litters an hour for 6 hours meant we gained an extra 30 litters of pure salt free water a tree for nothing. That is a 50mm saving in fuel, wear and tear and environmental friendly. Our water was tested at 200m parts per million salt but with the additional moisture the equivalent was reduced to less than 133 parts per million. There is also less evaporation at night meaning more of the water is delivered to the soil.
The disadvantage with micro jets is they require a good filtration system and ants just love the nozzles for collecting water and nesting. This meant that we often had to spend hours cleaning the jets out after a wet period when the sprinklers were not in use. Before using the micro jets it is a good idea to open the ends of the pipes and let the first flow run out of the pipes ants and all. This will save about half the work in cleaning nozzles out.
* Phytoremediation is another very useful tool for removing salt from your soil and giving it to someone else. How it works is that you grow a salt tolerant crop and sell the product. In the early days on our orchard we had severe boron salt problems in one section that required immediate attention. The choices we had was remove the plants and allow the land to lay bare or plant a crop that relished the salt. Beetroot was the answer. We planted beetroot, Beta vulgaris was planted around the trees and inter rows for the next 2 years. The results were amazing the stunted trees that were previously discarding yellow leaves with brown spots ceased and grew normally production rose and we were paid handsomely for the organic beetroot that went to market. Phytoremediation is a powerful tool that should not be underestimated on the farm or garden. Beetroot also looks very attractive in a flower bed.
The disadvantage of Phytoremediation it can be a very slow process taking as long as 10 or more years to remove the problematic salt.
* Salt Tolerant Specie are another method to help overcome salt toxicities. This method relies on selecting the plants that have the salt tolerances to grow on a particular area or particular aspect. Atriplex specie generally grow well on drier soils with higher salt concentrates.
* Reduce watering by growing plants that grow within the rainfall parameters and soil parameters. Only grow Melaleuca quinquinervia on wet or water logged sites, Eucalyptus curtisii on sandy shales that are well drained with rainfalls of 900mm to 1400mm annually.
* Grow plants that rely on the lower end of natural rainfall experienced in your district, soil type, aspect and topography.
* Mulch is a very affective way of reducing watering by as much as 80mm and has been dealt with under Organic Growing made Easy.
* Strip Cropping has been suggested as another method to reduce salt levels in an area. I believe this only defers the underlying problem as the salt deposits are retained in the soil and in fact maybe spread over a larger area on the farm or property. Strip farming can be useful if other methods are being applied where the results may take several years to take affect. It has use for the removal of salt through phytoremediation if the overall farm management practices are not changed to reduce salt levels.
With the use of mulch, reduced watering, the growing of the correct specie there should be no need to worry about costly alternative salinity reduction.
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