Vegetation class map
Loading map...
Key:
<1%
1-10%
10-50%
>50%
Estimated percentage landcover for vegetation class
Structure
Shrubland or low woodland up to 10 m tall with an open to semi-continuous groundcover dominated by perennial tussock grasses
Trees
Callitris glaucophylla
Shrubs and vines
Acacia excelsa, A. homalophylla, A. aneura, Eremophila mitchellii, E. sturtii, Grevillea striata, Atalaya hemiglauca, Hakea tephrosperma, H. leucoptera, Lysiana exocarpi ssp. exocarpi, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, Apophyllum anomalum, Senna artemisioides, Dodonaea viscosa ssp. angustissima, Olearia pimelioides, Flindersia maculosa, Myoporum platycarpum, Atriplex stipitata
Forbs, graminoids and pteridophytes
Eragrostis eriopoda, E. leptocarpa, E. dielsii, Aristida jerichoensis ssp. subspinulifera, Dichanthium sericeum, Aristida contorta, Digitaria brownii, Sclerolaena diacantha, S. uniflora, Calotis lappulacea
Habitat
Well-drained red-brown sandy loams on flat to undulating plains receiving 280-350 mm annual rainfall
Distribution
Western parts of the Cobar peneplain, and north-western plains from Enngonia to Wanaaring, extending into southern Qld.
Notes
A widespread group of assemblages sharing floristic affinities with Gibber transition shrublands and grading into Stony desert mulga in drier regions, and Western peneplain woodlands in higher-rainfall regions.
Sources
Beadle (1948); Pickard & Norris (1994)
See all threatened species associated with this vegetation class
See a
list of species, populations and ecological communities
associated with the North-west Plain Shrublands vegetation class.