[[File:Memorial obelisk to Allan Cunningham (botanist).jpg|thumb|Cunningham memorial obelisk in the [[Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney]]]]
Some of Australia's plants: ''[[Araucaria cunninghamii]]'' (hoop pine), ''[[Archontophoenix cunninghamiana]]'' (Bangalow palm), ''[[Banksia cunninghamii]]'', ''[[Lysiphyllum cunninghamii]]'' (jigal), ''[[Casuarina cunninghamiana]]'' (river sheoak), ''[[Centipeda cunninghamii]]'' (old man weed), ''[[Ficus]] virens|Ficus cunninghamii]]'', ''Medicosma cunninghamii'' (bone wood), ''[[Nothofagus cunninghamii]]'' (myrtle tree, Tasmania), ''Pennantia cunninghamii'' (brown beech), and ''Polyosma cunninghamii'' (rainforest featherwood) commemorate Allan and his brother [[Richard Cunningham (botanist)|Richard]], a botanist.<ref>[http://www.pacsoa.org.au/places/People/cunningham.html Allan Cunningham 1791–1839] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807162623/http://www.pacsoa.org.au/places/People/cunningham.html |date=7 August 2008 }} Retrieved on 27-1-2009</ref> The [[Cunningham Highway]] is named in honour of Allan. The genus ''Alania'' was created by [[Stephan Endlicher|Endlicher]] in Cunningham's honour.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=A68qyOyhOdkC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=Alania+%22Allan+Cunningham%22&source=bl&ots=BONEgzMBlV&sig=U9O4DquH4o4Gl2NJXoLCnV_mlYM&hl=en&ei=PPcPSv-pHo-ZjAfhydXkCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names]</ref> [[Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)|Robert Brown]] named the conifer genus ''[[Cunninghamia]]'' after both Allan Cunningham and Dr. James Cunningham, a British doctor who introduced the trees into cultivation in 1702.<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) |last=Brown |first=Robert |chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/61465 |chapter=On the structure of the female flower in Cycadae and Coniferae |title=The Miscellaneous Botanical Works of Robert Brown |date=1866 |volume=1 |page=[https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18531482 461]}}</ref>
A species of Australian lizard, ''[[Egernia cunninghami]]'', is named in honour of Allan Cunningham.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Cunningham", p. 63).</ref>
