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Elacholoma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Phrymaceae. Its native range is Central Australia. Species: Elacholoma hornii F.Muell. & Tate Elacholoma prostrata (Benth.) W.R.Barker & Beardsley

Acacia cowleana, commonly known as Halls Creek wattle, and other names in Australian Aboriginal languages, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect, openly branched, sometimes spindly shrub or tree with leathery, more or less sickle-shaped phyllodes, spikes of bright golden yellow flowers and linear, papery to leathery pods.

Banksia elderiana, commonly known as the swordfish banksia, is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia. It is a tangled, bushy shrub with stiff, serrated leaves and spikes of yellow flowers. It occurs in two disjunct areas in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. One population extends over a large area from west of Kalgoorlie south to Ravensthorpe, with another population in the Great Victoria Desert north of the Queen Victoria Spring.

Xanthorrhoea thorntonii, commonly known as Cundeelee grasstree, Cundeelee blackboy, desert grasstree, yacka or grasstree, is a species of grasstree of the genus Xanthorrhoea native to central Australia. It is known to the Pitjantjatjara people as kata-kultu, kata-puru, ulpa or urara, the Warlpiri people as yurlurnkuru and the Arrernte as lunkere. X. thorntonii is the only grass tree found in Central Australia including the Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert and MacDonnell Ranges.

Caladenia toxochila, commonly known as the bow-lip spider orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single, sparsely hairy leaf and one or two yellowish-green flowers with red stripes. It occurs in Victoria and South Australia and resembles the related Caladenia concinna from New South Wales.

Caladenia cardiochila, commonly known as thick-lipped spider-orchid, fleshy-lipped caladenia and heartlip spider-orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to Victoria and South Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf and one or two yellowish-green, red-striped flowers on a thin, wiry stem.

Ptilotus schwartzii is a grass-like plant in the Amaranthaceae family.

Dimorphocoma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. There is only one known species, Dimorphocoma minutula, endemic to Australia (New South Wales and South Australia).

Hakea ednieana commonly known as Flinders Range hakea or yandena, is a flowering plant in the Proteaceae family native to arid parts of central Australia. It has corky bark, grey-green spiky leaves and white, cream or yellow flowers.

Grevillea halmaturina is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a prickly, spreading to erect shrub with sharply-pointed, linear to more or less-cylindrical leaves and large groups of white to pale pink flowers.

Goodenia watsonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves mostly at the base of the plant, and thyrses of white, cream-coloured or bluish flowers.

Goodenia fascicularis, commonly known as silky goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is widely distributed in eastern continental Australia. It is an ascending perennial herb with linear to egg-shaped leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.

Verticordia rennieana is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an openly branched shrub with small, narrow, warty leaves and pink and silvery-white flowers in spring and summer.

Teucrium grandiusculum is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is a perennial herb or shrub with toothed, egg-shaped leaves and white flowers.

Pultenaea viscidula, commonly known as dark bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is an erect shrub with branches that are sticky when young, linear to cylindrical, channelled leaves with stipules at the base, and yellow to orange and yellow-red to green flowers.

Pultenaea graveolens, commonly known as scented bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is a strongly scented shrub with hairy stems, egg-shaped leaves with boat-shaped stipules at the base, and flowers that are mostly yellow.

Darwinia luehmannii is a flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a spreading, dense shrub that typically grows to 0.1 to 0.5 metres (0 to 2 ft) high. Flowering occurs between May and November producing white and green flowers. Often found in flat depressions or at the bases of rocks near Esperance where it grows in sandy loamy soils. This darwinia was first formally described 1896 by Ferdinand von Mueller and Ralph Tate and the description was published in Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia. The specific

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Goodenia elderi is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is an erect or virgate shrub with linear, more or less bunched stem leaves, and spreading racemes of white or yellow flowers.

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Prostanthera schultzii is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It grows as a shrub with heart-shaped to round or paddle-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple spots and yellow patches on the lower lip.

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