Nature conservation

Threatened species

Button Immortelle - Murray Darling Depression: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Leptorhynchos waitzia
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 05 Oct 2023

Distribution of the species within this region

The Button Immortelle is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Murray Darling Depression Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
South Olary Plain Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Button Immortelle - Murray Darling Depression is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Saline wetlands
    • Inland Saline lakes
      • 166 Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
      • 189 Ephemeral forbland wetland of low-saline lake-beds of the arid and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
      • 65 Halosarcia lylei low, open shrubland saline wetland of arid and semi-arid regions
      • 64 Samphire - Water Weed - Sea-Heath shrubland saline wetland of depressions of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
      • 18 Slender Glasswort low shrubland in saline wetland depressions in the semi-arid and arid climate zones, far western NSW
      • 63 Spiny Lignum - Slender Glasswort open forbland sailine wetland on lake edges in the semi-arid and arid climate zones
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