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14 Callistemon shrubs with purple flowers, in close proximity, growing in swampy woodland east of Back Creek. Other likely specimens located nearby, but without flowers. Opportunistic flowering after extreme summer weather conditions.

Euphrasia bowdeniae only grows in the Upper Blue Mountains, and is classed as vulnerable.
It can be distinguished from other members of the genus by its leaves which have one set of "teeth", and its upper leaves are toothless.

Ok so this is an exciting one. There is a known population of this species in the area, with the record from exactly here. The corrected Xanthorrhoea key to Victorian species (Muelleria, 33:113, 2015) puts X.minor and X.australis as having leaf widths less than this individual. Happy to be corrected and would like to have a flowering spike to check, but seems good for it?

Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 6209.

Tree to 35 metres tall. Bark rough to 7 metres, smooth creamy white above. Leaves ±concolorous, glossy, dark green. Co-dominant with Eucalyptus saligna in forest on broad ridge.