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Key:
<1%
1-10%
10-50%
>50%
Estimated percentage landcover for vegetation class
Structure
Open shrubland dominated by chenopods
Trees
None
Shrubs and vines
Maireana pyramidata, M. sedifolia, M. georgei, Rhagodia spinescens, Enchylaena tomentosa, Atriplex limbata, with scattered emergents of Casuarina pauper, Atalaya hemiglauca, Acacia aneura and Flindersia maculosa in the northern reaches of the distribution
Forbs, graminoids and pteridophytes
Dissocarpus paradoxus, Austrostipa nitida, A. scabra, A. elegantissima, Sclerolaena obliquicuspis, Eragrostis dielsii Atriplex spongiosa, A. lindleyi, Einadia nutans, Sida corrugata, S. intricata, Olearia pimelioides, Chenopodium cristatum, Daucus glochidiatus, Erodium cicutarium, E. cygnorum, Zygophyllum ammophilum, Z. crenatum, Pycnosorus pleiocephala, Rhodanthe floribunda, R. moschata, R. pygmaea, Myriocephalus stuartii
Habitat
Calcareous red sandy loams on level to undulating aeolian sandplains and lunettes
Distribution
Extensive on aeolian sandsheets of south-western NSW, primarily south from Ivanoe-Menindee to Balranald-Wentworth, with scattered occurrences north to White Cliffs. Extends into north-west Vic and SA.
Notes
An extensive group of assemblages with floristic affinities to Semi-arid sandplain woodlands and Gibber chenopod shrublands.
Sources
Beadle (1948); Scott (1992); Porteners (1993); Pickard & Norris (1994)
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