Nature conservation

Threatened species

Dysphania platycarpa - Mulga Lands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Dysphania platycarpa
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 01 Nov 2022

Distribution of the species within this region

The Dysphania platycarpa is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Mulga Lands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
White Cliffs Plateau Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Dysphania platycarpa - Mulga Lands is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Inland Floodplain Shrublands
      • 24 Canegrass swamp tall grassland wetland of drainage depressions, lakes and pans of the inland plains
      • 161 Golden Goosefoot shrubland wetland in swamps of the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) zones
      • 25 Lignum shrubland wetland on floodplains and depressions of the Mulga Lands Bioregion, Channel Country Bioregion in the arid and semi-arid (hot) climate zones
      • 160 Nitre Goosefoot shrubland wetland on clays of the inland floodplains
  • Saline wetlands
    • Inland Saline lakes
      • 166 Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
      • 149 Neverfail Grass - ephemeral herbaceous grassland forbland of interdune claypans mainly in the arid climate zone
      • 198 Sparse saltbush forbland wetland of the irregularly inundated lakes of the arid and semi-arid (persistently hot) climate zones
      • 263 Submerged flora of saline permanent wetland of the arid zone
      • 262 Submerged flora of saline temporary wetland of the arid zone
  • Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
    • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
      • 38 Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
      • 231 Coolabah open woodland wetland dunefield depressions of the arid zone
      • 67 Yapunyah woodland wetland of Cuttaburra-Paroo River system, Mulga Lands Bioregion