Phil in SF quoted Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to …
Everyone was camped in the scrub, under mallee, in depressions in the ground, covered with tarps, twigs and debris.
— Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Page 291)
new vocabulary: mallee
a low-growing bushy Australian eucalyptus which has several slender stems