TIM CROFT CONTRACT BOTANIST STATE HERBARIUM OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA EARLY DUTCH AND SPANISH EXPLORATION TO 1744 MATTHEW FLINDERS 1802 COASTAL EXPLORATION Homoranthus homoranthoides (Pt Lincoln Ground-myrtle) Pultenaea vestita (Feather Bush-pea) Lepidosperma viscidum (Sticky Sword-sedge) Convolvulus remotus (Grassy Bindweed) Grevillea aspera (Rough Grevillea) Adenanthos terminalis (Yellow Gland Flower) Eyre Peninsula Endemic Plant Species Acacia hexaneura (Cowell Spine-bush) Acacia cretacea (Chalky Wattle) Bossiaea peninsularis (Sword Bossiaea) Prostanthera calycina (West Coast Mintbush) Brachyscome xanthocarpa (Yellow-fruit Daisy) Eyre Peninsula Plant Communities Eyre Peninsula Blue Gum Woodland Drooping Sheoak Open Woodland River Red Gum grassy Woodland Mallee Box grassy Woodland Granite inselbergs and outcrops Mallee WAUNGERRI LAKE and MABLE RANGE, after ANGAS, 1844 Banksia marginata (Silver Banksia) & Xanthorrhoea semiplana tateana (Yacca) Shrubland Eyre Peninsula Blue Gum (Eucalyptus petiolaris) Woodland Ecological Community Cleve Hills Koppio Hills Nationally Threatened EPBC Act 1999 Port Lincoln - A distant view (William Westall sketch, 1802) BOSTON BAY and PORT LINCOLN from WINTER HILL, after ANGAS, 1844 Hills clothed in Allocasuarina verticillata (DROOPING SHEOAK) Allocasuarina verticillata (Drooping Sheoak) Remnant Low Open Woodland Allocasuarina verticillata (Drooping Sheoak) Dead trees of the former Low Open Woodland Eucalyptus camaldulensis ssp. camaldulensis (River Red Gum) Woodland over grassy and herbaceous Groundcover (Polda Basin) Eucalyptus camaldulensis ssp. camaldulensis (River Red Gum) Woodland of drainage lines (Lower EP) ance. Eucalyptus cladocalyx (SugarGum) Woodland (Koppio Hills) Eucalyptus porosa (Mallee Box) Woodland over grassy Groundcover. Callitris gracilis (Southern Cypress Pine) Open Woodland over grassy Groundcover Melaleuca uncinata (Broombush) Shrubland – Granite Outcrops Eucalyptus diversifolia ssp. diversifolia (Coastal White Mallee) Mallee Melaleuca halmaturorum (Swamp Paper Bark) Shrubaland Low Open Forest – Elliston District Gahnia trifida (Cutting Grass) Sedgeland Wetland Vegetation Acacia pinguifolia (Fat-leaf Wattle) Nationally Threatened Species Ptilotus beckerianus (Ironstone Mulla Mulla) Nationally Threatened Species Stackhousia annua (Annual Candles) Nationally Threatened Species.