Botanic Province
The region corresponds to the floristic province of Southwest Australia. The World Wide Fund for Nature and Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) divide the region up into a number of ecoregions:
- Coolgardie woodlands (IBRA Coolgardie)
- Esperance mallee (IBRA Esperance Plains and Mallee)
- Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands (IBRA Warren)
- Kwongan heathlands (IBRA Swan Coastal Plain)
- Southwest Australia savanna (IBRA Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, and Yalgoo)
- Southwest Australia woodlands (IBRA Jarrah Forest)
(note Yalgoo and Mallee is 25 miles away from the South West under the WWF scheme, but are considered part of the Central Australian or Eremaean Region by the northern Australian Herbarium)
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