Australian Natives

Citrus australasica F.Muell.

Spiny shrub or small tree with simple leaves and white flowers, to 1.2cm across, followed by edible, intensely flavoured, green to reddish fruit, to 6cm long.  To 6m.  [FNSW, Wrigley].

Citrus australis (Mudie) Planch.

Spiny, open shrub with elliptic leaves, to 5cm long, and fragrant white flowers, to 2cm across, followed by edible green fruits, to 6cm across.  [Wrigley].

Crassula species unidentified

Possibly one of a number of Australian Crassula species growing locally.  [Beadle, FNSW].

• Crassula helmsii (Kirk) Cockayne
• Crassula purpurata (Hook.f.) Domin
• Crassula sieberana (Schultes) Druce
• Crassula macrantha (Hook.f.) Diels & E.Pritz.

Crinum flaccidum Herb.

A variable deciduous species, with generally narrow, channelled leaves which tend to flop on the ground and which often die back in summer, and flattened stems, to 60cm long, bearing umbels of up to 8, fragrant, pure white or cream flowers that open widely.  The bulbs can be as much as 1m below ground.  [RHSD, FNSW].  Yellow-flowered forms have also been described from western South Australia and pink flowered forms from New South Wales.  [Hannibal Plant Life p.46/1963].  More recently crinums with deep yellow or pink flowers have been discovered in South Australia and Queensland, some of them possibly new species.  [Jim Lykos, personal communication].

Crinum macleayi Hort.

Unidentified Crinum species or variety.  Probably of Australian origin and a form of either Crinum flaccidum or Crinum pedunculatum.

Crinum pedunculatum R.Br.

Green [FOA vol.49, p.510/1994] considered C. pedunculatum to be part of the widespread C. asiaticum, following Fosberg & Sachet (1987). This view is not generally accepted in Australia. True C. asiaticum occurs on Christmas and Cocos Islands [comment in the on-line version of APNI]. I have followed the Flora of Australia here.

Very large crinum with thick, leathery leaves, to 75cm long and 20cm wide, and many stout, reddish flowering stems of up to 1m with umbels of 20-30, fragrant white flowers, with greenish-purple tubes, to 6cm long, in summer.  [RHSD, Hortus, FNSW, Baker Am.].  

Crinum pedunculatum R.Br. var. brachyandrum

Crinum brachyandrum is a variety of Crinum pedunculatum R.Br. which see, distinguished from the type by shorter stamens.  Baker gives similar descriptions for Crinum brachyandrum Herb. (Northern Australia) and Crinum pedunculatum R.Br. (Eastern Australia).  [Baker Am].

Crinum species Liverpool Plains (Macquariense?)

Probably a form of Crinum flaccidum Herb. which see for a description. 

Crinum species North Coast

Probably a form of Crinum pedunculatum R.Br. which see for a description.

Crinum species North West Coast

Probably a form of Crinum flaccidum Herb. which see for a description.  Crinum flaccidum has been identified from the north west coast of Western Australia, between Geraldton and Karratha, north of Shark Bay.

Crinum species South West Interior no.1

Probably a form of Crinum flaccidum Herb. which see for a description.

Crinum species South West Interior no.2

Probably a form of Crinum flaccidum Herb. which see for a description.

Crowea saligna Andr.

Frost tender, open-branched shrub with slender stems, narrowly elliptic leaves and bearing solitary, waxy pink flowers, 3.5cm across, from the leaf axils in summer and autumn.  To 1.5.  [RHSE, FNSW, Beadle].

Cryptocarya species unidentified

Cryptocarya is a genus of some 250 species of trees or shrubs from the tropics or sub-tropics.  15 species are recognised in NSW, including Cryptocarya bidwillii Meissn.  This was not described until 1864, the type plant originating from Wide Bay, now in Queensland, suggesting that Bidwill found it there after he was appointed Commissioner in 1849.

Cryptostylis subulata (Labill.) Reichb.f.

Terrestrial orchid with fleshy, spreading roots, leathery leaves and tall racemes of reddish to reddish brown flowers, the labellum having a prominent lobed, dark purple callus near the apex.  To 80cm.  [Jones, FNSW, Pridgeon, Beadle].