Australian Bustard - Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Ardeotis australis

Conservation status in NSW: Endangered

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Last updated: 01 Dec 2017

Distribution of the species within this region

The Australian Bustard is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Strzelecki Desert	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Australian Bustard - Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
- Gibber Transition Shrublands
  - 197 Black Box - Gidgee - chenopod low open woodland wetland on alluvial clay soils in the Culgoa River region of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Mulga Lands Bioregion
  - 118 Gidgee chenopod woodland on red-brown clays in the semi-arid (hot) climate zone mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion.
  - 131 Gidgee of the intermittent watercourses or the arid zone (mainly Channel Country Bioregion and Simpson Strezlecki Dunefields Bioregion)
  - 137 Whitewood - Western Rosewood low woodland of the NSW north western plains
- North-west Plain Shrublands
  - 229 Derived mixed shrubland on loamy-clay soils in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
  - 144 Leopardwood low woodland mainly on clayey soils in the semi-arid zone
  - 125 Mulga - Ironwood shrubland on loams and clays mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
  - 213 Murrays Wattle sparse shrubland/forbland on sand rises of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 264 Supplejack woodland of the NSW north-western semi-arid plains
  - 77 Yarran shrubland of the NSW central to northern slopes and plains
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- Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
  - 140 Broombush shrubland in dunefields of the arid climate zone
  - 129 Cabbage-tree Wattle shrubland of the inland plains and drainage lines
  - 199 Hooked Needlewood - Needlewood - Mulga - Turpentine Bush open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid plains
  - 143 Narrow-leaved Hopbush - Scrub Turpentine - Senna shrubland on semi-arid and arid sandplains and dunes.
  - 128 Nelia tall open shrubland of semi-arid sandplains
  - 139 Prickly Wattle tall open shrubland of dunes and sandplains of semi-arid and arid regions
  - 220 Purple Wood wattle shrubland of the arid zone sandplains
  - 124 Sandhill Wattle open shrubland on sand ridges mainly in the arid zone
  - 119 Sandplain Mulga tall shrubland - open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid climate zones
  - 232 Senna - Mulga - Needlewood open shrubland on loam-clay soils in swales and on the edges of claypans in the arid zone
  - 69 White Cypress Pine - Mulga shrubland on plains and sandplains in the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) climate zones.
  - 215 Woollybutt Grass open grassland on red earths of the inland plains
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- Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
  - 127 Bastard Mulga tall open shrubland of the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
  - 60 Black Oak - Western Rosewood - bluebush/saltbush low sparse woodland on gravel downs in the arid climate zone
  - 169 Curly Mallee - bluebush open woodland of the arid zone
  - 138 Desert Paper-bark shrubland wetland of semi-arid and arid climate zone watercourses.
  - 194 Heather Bush - Mulga - Umbrella Mulga open shrubland on gravelly rises mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
  - 130 Horse Mulga - Umbrella Mulga shrubland on ranges in the arid and semi-arid climate zones
  - 132 Mulga - Rock Fuchsia-bush sparse shrubland of silcrete scarps and mesas of the Channel Country Bioregion
  - 120 Mulga shrubland on stony rises in the arid and semi-arid climate zones, mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
  - 68 White Cypress Pine - Mulga low open woodland on the stony ranges of the arid zone (far north western NSW).
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Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
- Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
  - 153 Black Bluebush low open shrubland of the alluvial plains and sandplains of the arid and semi-arid zones
  - 225 Bladder Saltbush low open chenopod shrubland of the Strzelecki dunefields of the arid climate zone
  - 222 Low Bluebush - Bladder Saltbush open shrubland of the arid zone
  - 152 Lunette chenopod shrubland mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
  - 154 Pearl Bluebush low open shrubland of the arid and semi-arid plains
  - 151 Sandhill Cane Grass hummock grassland on siliceous sands on dune crests of the arid zone
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- Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
  - 156 Bladder Saltbush shrubland on stony plains and downs of the arid zone
  - 155 Bluebush shrubland on stony rises and downs in the arid and semi-arid zones
  - 150 Bottlewasher - Copperburr grassland of the arid zone
  - 224 Cotton Bush - copperburr open shrubland of the arid climate zone
  - 167 Kerosene Grass - Mulka grass - short grassland/forbland of the arid zone
  - 61 Mitchell Grass - saltbush grassland/shrubland of the gibber downs of the arid climate zone
  - 136 Prickly Wattle open shrubland of drainage lines on stony rises and plains of the arid climate zone
  - 210 Shrubby Twinleaf - saltbush open shrubland on silcrete scarps of the arid zone
  - 183 Windmill Grass - love grass - daisy derived grassland/forbland of arid climate zone
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- Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
  - 196 Australian Boxthorn open shrubland in the semi-arid or arid climate zones
  - 254 Black Oak - Bladder Saltbush on light clays in the arid zone
  - 216 Black Roly Poly low open shrubland of the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
  - 195 Bladder Saltbush chenopod shrubland on alluvial plains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
  - 157 Bladder Saltbush shrubland on alluvial plains in the semi-arid (warm) zone including Riverina Bioregion
  - 212 Chenopod low open shrubland - ephemeral partly derived forbland saline wetland on occasionally flooded pale clay scalds in the NSW North Western Plains
  - 377 Copperburr low open shrubland on loam - clay flats and playas, western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and northern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 164 Cotton Bush open shrubland of the semi-arid (warm) zone
  - 168 Derived Copperburr shrubland of the NSW northern inland alluvial floodplains
  - 236 Derived Giant Redburr low shrubland on alluvial plains of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
  - 163 Dillon Bush (Nitre Bush) shrubland of the semi-arid and arid zones
  - 466 Galvanized Burr derived low shrubland of the Brigalow Belt South and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 158 Old Man Saltbush - mixed chenopod shrubland of the semi-arid hot (persistently dry) and arid climate zones (north-western NSW)
  - 159 Old Man Saltbush shrubland mainly of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (south western NSW)
  - 211 Slender Saltbush - samphire - copperburr low open shrubland wetland on irreguarly innundated floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
- North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
  - 3514 Nandewar Hills Apple-White Box Shrub-Grass Woodland
  - 3516 Northwest Black Pine-Ironbark Forest
  - 3517 Northwest Creekflat Blakelys Red Gum Shrub-Grass Forest
  - 3518 Northwest Pine-Ironbark Grassy Woodland
  - 3522 Northwest White Box Spinifex Woodland
  - 3521 Northwest White Box Woodland
  - 3523 Northwest White Pine-Box Woodland
  - 3511 Western New England White Pine-Tumbledown Gum Woodland
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- Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 411 Buloke - White Cypress Pine woodland on outwash plains in the Pilliga Scrub and Narrabri regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion

Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 344 Argyle Apple - Acacia mearnsii valley open forest of the Yass - Rye Park region of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and adjoining NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion

Forested wetlands
- Inland Riverine Forests
  - 11 River Red Gum - Lignum very tall open forest or woodland wetland on floodplains of semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
  - 234 River Red Gum woodland wetland of rocky creeks in the ranges of the arid climate zone

Freshwater wetlands
- Inland Floodplain Shrublands
  - 375 Budda Pea - Channel Millet ephemeral reedland wetland on floodplains in north-western NSW
  - 24 Canegrass swamp tall grassland wetland of drainage depressions, lakes and pans of the inland plains
  - 115 Eurah shrubland of inland floodplains
  - 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
  - 247 Lignum shrubland wetland on regularly flooded alluvial depressions in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 160 Nitre Goosefoot shrubland wetland on clays of the inland floodplains
  - 241 River Coobah swamp wetland on the floodplains of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 271 Spotted Fuchsia shrubland wetland in drainage depressions on inland plains
  - 261 Swamp Paper-bark shrubland wetland ringing depressions in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
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- Inland Floodplain Swamps
  - 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
  - 416 Pilliga tank gilgai wetland sedgeland rushland, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 465 Reedland - tussock grass - segeland fen swampy wetland of impeded creeks in southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 400 Riparian sedgeland rushland wetland of the Pilliga to Goonoo sandstone forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 447 Sedgeland - forbland wetland in depressions on valley flats of the NSW North-western Slopes
  - 361 Sedgeland fen wetland of spring-fed or runoff-fed creeks in the southern Pilliga - Warrumbungle Range region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 53 Shallow freshwater wetland sedgeland in depressions on floodplains on inland alluivial plains and floodplains
  - 12 Shallow marsh wetland of regularly flooded depressions on floodplains mainly in the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
  - 47 Swamp grassland wetland of the Riverine Plain
  - 204 Water Couch marsh grassland wetland of frequently flooded inland watercourses
  - 364 Wetland on sodic soils in the Yetman-Yelarbon region, mainly Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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- Montane Bogs and Fens
  - 3391 Munghorn Seepage Wet Herbfield

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
  - 45 Plains Grass grassland on alluvial mainly clay soils in the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
  - 1203 Speargrass natural grassland of the sandplains of the Murray Darling Bioregion
- Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
  - 50 Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
  - 43 Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
  - 214 Native Millet - Cup Grass grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 49 Partly derived Windmill Grass - copperburr alluvial plains shrubby grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 52 Queensland Bluegrass +/- Mitchell Grass grassland on cracking clay floodplains and alluvial plains mainly the northern-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 242 Rats Tail Couch sod grassland wetland of inland floodplains
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- Temperate Montane Grasslands
  - 3378 Yass Gorge Rhyolite Grassland
- Western Slopes Grasslands
  - 710 Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Common Woodruff clay plain grassland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 484 Derived tall spear grass grassland on mainly basalt hills of the Liverpool Plains, Liverpool Range and in the upper Hunter Valley (Merriwa district), south-eastern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 250 Derived tussock grassland of the central western plains and lower slopes of NSW
  - 619 Derived Wire Grass grassland of the NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
  - 1179 Slender Bamboo Grass - Spiny Saltbush grassland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 633 Speargrass - Redleg Grass derived grassland on hills in the Jindera to Holbrook region, southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
  - 1324 Windmill Grass - Bluegrass derived grassland of the Moree plains of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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Grassy woodlands
- Floodplain Transition Woodlands
  - 628 Carbeen +/- Coolabah grassy woodland on floodplain clay loam soil on north-western NSW floodplains, mainly Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
  - 248 Mixed box eucalypt woodland on low sandy-loam rises on alluvial plains in central western NSW
  - 56 Poplar Box - Belah woodland on clay-loam soils on alluvial plains of north-central NSW
  - 244 Poplar Box grassy woodland on alluvial clay-loam soils mainly in the temperate (hot summer) climate zone of central NSW (wheatbelt).
  - 82 Western Grey Box - Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine tall woodland on red loams mainly of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- New England Grassy Woodlands
  - 3351 Armidale Creekflat Snow Gum Woodland-Scrub
  - 3352 Armidale Quartz Hills Stringybark Forest
  - 3353 Guyra Silvertop Stringybark Moist Forest
  - 3354 Liverpool Range Box-Silvertop Stringybark Forest
  - 3350 Macleay Gorge Rims Shrub Woodland
  - 3355 Moonbi Range Stringybark-Yellow Box Forest
  - 3358 New England Fuzzy Box Grassy Forest
  - 3359 New England Hills Stringybark-Box Woodland
  - 3356 Northwest Ranges Apple-Stringybark Sheltered Forest
  - 3361 Tenterfield Plateau Stringybark-Apple Forest
  - 3363 Western New England Blakelys Red Gum-Box Grassy Forest
  - 3357 Western New England Flats Apple-Box Grassy Forest
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- Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
  - 3365 Bondo Slopes Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
  - 3366 Central Tableland Clay Apple Box Grassy Forest
  - 3367 Central Tableland Granites Grassy Box Woodland
  - 3368 Central Tableland Limestone Woodland
  - 3369 Central Tableland Ranges Peppermint-Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3370 Central Tableland Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
  - 3372 Dalton Hills Grassy Stringybark Forest
  - 3373 Goulburn Tableland Box-Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3374 Goulburn Tableland Peppermint Grassy Forest
  - 3375 Monaro-Queanbeyan Rolling Hills Grassy Forest
  - 3376 Southern Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
  - 3377 Southwest Foothills Apple Box Grassy Forest
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- Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
  - 3337 Bondo Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
  - 3339 Guyra Basalt Snow Gum Woodland
  - 3340 Macintyre Flats Candlebark Woodland
  - 3341 Monaro-Gourock Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
  - 3342 Mount Kaputar Montane Box Forest
  - 3343 Mount Kaputar Montane Gum Forest
  - 3344 New England Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3345 New England Snow Gum-Black Sally Woodland
  - 3347 Southern Tableland Creekflat Ribbon Gum Forest
  - 3348 Southern Tableland Granites Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
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- Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
  - 599 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on flats and hills in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
  - 3386 Capertee Marl Grassy Box Woodland
  - 3387 Central West Creekflat Grassy Woodland
  - 3404 Central West Flats Grassy Box Woodland
  - 3405 Central West Flats Inland Grey Box Grassy Forest
  - 3388 Central West Valleys White Box Forest
  - 451 Derived Spear Grass - Slender Bamboo Grass mixed tussock grassland mainly of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
  - 395 Derived speargrass - wallaby grass - wire grass mixed forb grassland mainly in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga - Coolah region
  - 202 Fuzzy Box woodland on colluvium and alluvial flats in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion (including Pilliga) and Nandewar Bioregion
  - 3389 Honeysuckle Range Serpentinite Outcrop Woodland
  - 3390 Liverpool Range Red Gum-Yellow Box Forest
  - 3393 Northwest Basalt Box Plains Grass Woodland
  - 3394 Northwest Basalt Grassland-Woodland Complex
  - 3395 Northwest Elevated White Box Woodland
  - 3398 Northwest Slopes Box-Apple Woodland
  - 3396 Northwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Woodland
  - 3397 Northwest Yellow Box Grassy Woodland
  - 511 Queensland Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Rats Tail Grass - spear grass - panic grass derived grassland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 464 Red Stringybark - Kurrajong - mixed eucalypt grassy open forest of the Coonabarabran - Gulgong region in the Brigalow Belt South and NSW SWS Bioregion
  - 444 Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy tall woodland on clay-loam soils on plains in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 3399 Southwest Hills White Box-Blakelys Red Gum Forest
  - 3406 Southwest Ranges White Box Woodland
  - 3400 Southwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Grassy Woodland
  - 3401 Upper Hunter Sheltered Viney Shrub Forest
  - 3402 Western Blue Mountains White Box Forest
  - 3403 Western Hunter Creekflat Apple Grassy Forest
  - 1383 White Box grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 433 White Box grassy woodland to open woodland on basalt flats and rises in the Liverpool Plains sub-region, BBS Bioregion
  - 421 Yellow Box - White Cypress Pine alluvial terrace flats grassy woodland in the Pilliga forests and surrounds, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Highly disturbed areas with no or limited native vegetation
  - 99997 Highly disturbed areas - road verges, table drains, road embankments, ploughed paddocks etc.

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
  - 253 Gypseous shrubland on rises in the semi-arid and arid plains
  - 65 Halosarcia lylei low, open shrubland saline wetland of arid and semi-arid regions
  - 149 Neverfail Grass - ephemeral herbaceous grassland forbland of interdune claypans mainly in the arid climate zone
  - 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
  - 198 Sparse saltbush forbland wetland of the irregularly inundated lakes of the arid and semi-arid (persistently hot) climate zones
  - 63 Spiny Lignum - Slender Glasswort open forbland sailine wetland on lake edges in the semi-arid and arid climate zones
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Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
- Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
  - 35 Brigalow - Belah open forest / woodland on alluvial often gilgaied clay from Pilliga Scrub to Goondiwindi, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 31 Brigalow - Gidgee open woodland on clay plains west of the Culgoa River, Mulga Lands Bioregion
  - 29 Brigalow open woodland on clay soils in the Nyngan-Bourke-Enngonia regions of the NSW north-western plains
- Inland Floodplain Woodlands
  - 630 Black Box - Silver Saltbush chenopod open woodland on terrace rises on alluvial plains in the lower Darling River and lower Murray River region of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
  - 16 Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
  - 15 Black Box open woodland wetland with chenopod understorey mainly on the outer floodplains in south-western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
  - 454 River Red Gum grassy chenopod open tall woodland (wetland) on floodplain clay soil of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 83 Yellow Box woodland on sandy loam soils on alluvial plains mainly in the upper Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
- North-west Floodplain Woodlands
  - 55 Belah woodland on alluvial plains and low rises in the central NSW wheatbelt to Pilliga and Liverpool Plains regions.
  - 38 Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
  - 37 Black Box woodland wetland on NSW central and northern floodplains including the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
  - 39 Coolabah - River Coobah - Lignum woodland wetland of frequently flooded floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 231 Coolabah open woodland wetland dunefield depressions of the arid zone
  - 40 Coolabah open woodland wetland with chenopod/grassy ground cover on grey and brown clay floodplains
  - 230 Coolabah woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses in arid zone, mainly in the Channel Country Bioregion
  - 87 Poplar Box - Coolabah floodplain woodland on light clay soil mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 207 Poplar Box grassy low woodland of drainage lines and depressions of the semi-arid (hot) and arid zone climate zones
  - 41 River Red Gum open woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses mainly of the arid climate zone
  - 200 River Red Gum woodland wetland of lake fringes in the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
  - 67 Yapunyah woodland wetland of Cuttaburra-Paroo River system, Mulga Lands Bioregion
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- Riverine Plain Woodlands
  - 27 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 26 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion

Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
- Desert Woodlands
  - 100 Desert Bloodwood - Mulga low woodland of the semi-arid plains
  - 133 Western Bloodwood - Whitewood low open woodland on Tibooburra Granite
- North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
  - 206 Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall woodland of alluvial sand (sand monkeys) in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 376 Mixed scrub low open woodland on sand rises and dunes on floodplains in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
  - 20 Buloke - Moonah - Black Box open woodland on sandy rises of semi arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
  - 22 Semi-arid shrubby Buloke - Slender Cypress Pine woodland, far south-western NSW
  - 21 Slender Cypress Pine - Sugarwood - Western Rosewood open woodland on sandy rises mainly in the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
  - 631 White Cypress Pine - Western Rosewood - spinifex grass open woodland on sand-dunes in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
  - 28 White Cypress Pine open woodland of sand plains, prior streams and dunes mainly of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
  - 23 Yarran tall open shrubland of the sandplains and plains of the semi-arid (warm) and arid climate zones
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- Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
  - 174 Mallee - Gum Coolabah woodland on red earth flats of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
  - 59 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Leopardwood low open woodland on sandplain and sandy flats in semi arid (hot) and arid climate zones
  - 57 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Wilga woodland of central NSW including the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
  - 221 Black Oak - Pearl Bluebush open woodland of the sandplains of the semi-arid warm and arid climate zones
  - 58 Black Oak - Western Rosewood open woodland on deep sandy loams mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
  - 252 Sugarwood open woodland of the inland plains mainly Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
  - 117 Buck Spinifex shrubby hummock grassland / Coolabah Apple - Silver-leaved Ironbark open woodland on deep sand in the Enngonia to Cumborah regions, north western NSW
  - 192 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Poplar Box +/- Ironwood shrub - grass woodland on rises in the north-western plains of NSW
  - 146 Whitewood low open woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and north-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- Western Peneplain Woodlands
  - 135 Coobah - Western Rosewood low open tall shrubland or woodland mainly on outwash areas in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
  - 108 Gum Coolabah - Mulga open woodland on gravel ridges of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
  - 134 Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains
  - 109 Poplar Box - Mulga - Ironwood woodland on red loam soils on plains in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and north-eastern Mulga Lands Bioregion
  - 105 Poplar Box grassy woodland on flats mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
  - 145 Western Rosewood - Wilga - Wild Orange - Belah low woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
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Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3282 Liverpool Range Apple Gully Forest
  - 3284 Liverpool Range Ribbon Gum-Stringybark Forest

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