mallees, marlocks, moorts and yates

Couldn't let that lovely run of words go without a query or two
chasing after it. 

Margaret - are these beauties all words which are applied
indiscriminately to all mallees? 

Or are all mallees mallees but only some mallees marlocks, some moorts
and some yates? 

And if the latter, what's the difference between m, m, m and y?! 

Or, if they're all words for every single mallee, why the, ahum,
redundant synonymity? Different words for/from different bits of the
country? 

And, finally, what the heck do they - all and each - mean?!

Now I bet you'd never mentioned'em....

TIA for any info or even suggestions of where to find it -

Tim-the-word-freak
beside the Solway Firth, Cumbria UK, 
where it's spring by the sea, still winter on the snow-capped fells
Tim Longville
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