(A listing of the main Censuses, which contain distribution information only, against names (and usually) authorities; no illustrations.)
Hnatiuk, R.J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora & Fauna series Number 11, Bureau of Flora & Fauna, Canberra. AGPS, 1990. (650 pp.). [An Australia-wide census listing all recognised plant names and giving their distributions by the state botanical regions. It is being continually updated by the National Botanic Gardens in Canberra, and computer updates are available.]
Pickard, J. & S.W.L. Jacobs Plants of New South Wales Royal Bot. Gard. Sydney, 1981. [Recognised names and authorities; distributions. NO FERNS. Provides a checklist of species in each geographical division of N.S.W.; can also be of use when there is no flora covering the area from which your plant was collected. Dating fast, largely superseded by Flora of NSW series. An update of many name and distribution changes was published in Telopea 2(6) [1986], available from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.]
Ross , J.H. (ed.) A census of the vascular plants of Victoria (4th edn). Nat. Herb. Vict./Dept Conservation Forests & Lands, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 1993. (213 pp.) [Recognized names, authors, and places of publication.]
Buchanan, A.M. et al. A census of the vascular plants of Tasmania. Tasm. Herbarium Occas. Publication no 2, Tasm. Herb., GPO Box 252c, Hobart 7001, 1989. [Listing of recognised names and authors only.]
Jessop, J. (ed.) A list of the vascular plants of South Australia, edn 3. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 12 (1) 1989. [Recognised names, authors, regional distributions, synonyms.]
Green, J.W. Census of the vascular plants of Western Australia 2nd edn. W.A. Dept Agriculture 1985. [Comprehensive list of scientific names of all plants occurring in the state, together with the authors and place of original publication.]
Kenneally, K. Checklist of vascular plants of the Kimberley, Western Australia. Handbook No 14, W.A. Naturalists Club, Perth, 1989. [Not an identification guide, but a listing of all native and introduced plants known to occur in the area; complementary natural (family/genera) and alphabetical (by genus/species) lists, with authors.]
Dunlop. C.R. (ed.) Checklist of vascular plants of the Northern Territory. Conservation Commission of N. Terr., 1987. [Recognised names, authors, distributions.]
Neldner,V.J. Vascular plants of western Queensland. Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage 1992. (170pp.) [Checklist of plants of Western Queensland with a floristic summary, descriptions of known vegetation groups & useful appendices.]
Rodd, A.N. & J. Pickard Census of vascular flora of Lord Howe Island. Cunninghamia 1(2): 133-265 (1983).