The Australian Institute of Pharmacognosy undertakes plant surveys on a regular basis. Plants of interest located and identified by our team are shown below. Our early records (2023) are from south-east Queensland. Since January 2026, field surveys have also covered north Queensland, around Cardwell and the wet tropics.
Please enjoy these plants where they grow. Photograph them rather than pick them: many native plants are protected in Queensland, and taking them can require a permit.
Send us one of yours
This map is our own survey work, and it does not have to stay that way. If you have photographed a plant, kept field notes on one, or want a second opinion on an identification, send it to our researchers and we will tell you what we think it is. Records that stand up go on the map with your name on them. How to send us your findings.
Plants we have recorded
Every plant from our field surveys and our original Materia Medica field map, together in one list and one map. Plants are listed A to Z. Type in the search box to find one, pick a family, or sort by any column heading. Select a plant for its photos, each record, and our field notes on it: how to recognise it, how we check it in the lab, how it has been used, and what it is being studied for.
47 field records · 27 taxa · kept up to date automatically
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Where they were found
Records from the Institute's field surveys, 2023 to today. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.