Plant diversity

Following on from my initial foray into what is held by the Atlas of Living Australia for the Mallacoota area (defined by me as within 5km of our house) I decided to look at which areas had good numbers of records and/or species of plants.  I did this separately for monocots and dicots and got similar patterns and in what follows will only refer to dicots.

There are 543 localities with at least 1 dicot species reported.  435  of these have exactly 1 species!  32 localities have 10 or more species.  The locality names of the major sites are generally not helpful:

These are all research site by Victorian Government bodies.  On looking up the latitude and longitude given for each site the top one (excluding the null entry) in the list turns out to be Shady Gully, right on the edge of the town.  I then found a few more sites with variations on the name Shady Gully and adding them all together got 113 dicots, 52 monocots and 5 ferns. 

With luck, and trusting in Google, this should be a link to the species list.