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<1%
1-10%
10-50%
>50%
Estimated percentage landcover for vegetation class
Structure
Tall open shrubland with an open stratum of smaller shrubs and perennial tussock grasses
Trees
None
Shrubs and vines
Acacia aneura, Casuarina pauper, A. ligulata, A. victoriae, A. loderi, A. cana, Hakea leucoptera, H. tephrosperma, Grevillea stenobotrya, Alectryon oleifolius, Dodonaea viscosa ssp. angustissima, Flindersia maculosa, Atalaya hemiglauca, Senna artemisioides, Eremophila sturtii, E. longifolia, Maireana pyramidata, Rhagodia spinescens
Forbs, graminoids and pteridophytes
Aristida jerichoensis var. subspinulifera, A. contorta, Eragrostis eriopoda, E. dielsii, E. parviflora, Enneaopogon avenaceus, Triraphis mollis, Dissocarpus paradoxa, Sclerolaena bicornis, S. diachantha, Rhodanthe floribiunda, Ptilotus polystachyus var. polystachyus, Trachymene glaucifolia, Eriachne aridea, Calotis erinacea, Myriocephalus stuartii with Themeda australis and Cymbopogon ambigua in creeeklines
Habitat
Red-brown sands of desert sandplains receiving less than 300 mm annual rainfall
Distribution
Extensive on the north-western plains, west from Louth-Ivanoe and north from Broken Hill, extending into western Qld and northern SA.
Notes
An extensive group of assemblages sharing floristic affinities with Stony desert mulga and Southern semi-arid sandplain woodland.
Sources
Beadle (1948); Pickard & Norris (1994)
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