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Elacholoma prostrata (Benth.) W.R. Barker & Beardsley
Small Monkey Flower
Common in central Australia. This plant was formerly known as Mimulus prostratus. The 2012 paper below details the name changes.

  Elacholoma prostrata Elacholoma prostrata
 
  Description:Flowers Description:Plant
  Location:Eyre Creek, Western Queensland  Location:Eyre Creek, Western Queensland
  GPS coordinates:25˚54.0250S,138˚51.1763E GPS coordinates:25˚54.0250S,138˚51.1763E
Date of photo:18 June 2007 Date of photo:18 June 2007
  Field No.: U459 Field No.: U459
     
  Elacholoma prostrata Elacholoma prostrata
 
  Description:Plants in habitat Description:Plants in habitat
  Location:Eyre Creek, Western Queensland  Location:Eyre Creek, Western Queensland 
  GPS coordinates:25˚54.0250S,138˚51.1763E GPS coordinates:25˚54.0250S,138˚51.1763E
  Date of photo:18 June 2007 Date of photo:18 June 2007
  Field No.:U459 Field No.:U459
 

References (accessed 14 April 2017):

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Elacholoma~prostrata

Barker, W.R., Nesom, G.L., Beardsley, P.M. & Fraga, N.S. (2012), A taxonomic conspectus of Phyrmaceae: a narrowed circumscription for Mimulus, new and resurrected genera, and new names and combinations. Phytoneuron 39:23

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Elacholoma prostrata