Nature conservation

Threatened species

Plains-wanderer - Broken Hill Complex: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Pedionomus torquatus
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Critically Endangered
Last updated: 20 Jun 2019

Distribution of the species within this region

The Plains-wanderer is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Broken Hill Complex Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Barrier Range Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Plains-wanderer - Broken Hill Complex is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Grasslands
    • Riverine Plain Grasslands
      • 46 Curly Windmill Grass - speargrass - wallaby grass grassland on alluvial clay and loam on the Hay Plain, Riverina Bioregion
      • 165 Derived corkscrew grass grassland/forbland on sandplains and plains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
      • 44 Forb-rich Speargrass - Windmill Grass - White Top grassland of the Riverina Bioregion
      • 1203 Speargrass natural grassland of the sandplains of the Murray Darling Bioregion