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The term 'mallee' has several separate but inter-related meanings. It can mean:

★ mallee (habit), the habit of woody plants that grow with multiple stems from underground lignotubers;

★ the common name of plant species that exhibit this habit. A great many mallees have "mallee" in their common name, but the only species known specifically as "Mallee" are:

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★ ''Eucalyptus gracilis'';

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★ ''Eucalyptus incrassata'';

★ Mallee woodlands and shrublands, a Major Vegetation Group of Australia, consisting predominantly of trees and/or shrubs with a mallee habit;

★ The name of certain regions of Australia characterised by their mallee vegetation:

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★ The Mallee, a district of far north-western Victoria;

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★ Division of Mallee, an electoral district, also in north-western Victoria;

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★ Mallee (statistical division), also in north-western Victoria;

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★ The Murray Mallee, a region in South Australia;

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★ Mallee, a biogeographic region in Western Australia.