Nature conservation

Threatened species

Silky Cow-Vine - Channel Country: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Ipomoea polymorpha
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 20 Oct 2020

Distribution of the species within this region

The Silky Cow-Vine is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Channel Country Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Bulloo Known None
Bulloo Dunefields Predicted None
Sturt Stony Desert Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Silky Cow-Vine - Channel Country 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
      • 137 Whitewood - Western Rosewood low woodland of the NSW north western plains
    • 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.
      • 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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  • Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
    • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
      • 230 Coolabah woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses in arid zone, mainly in the Channel Country 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
      • 67 Yapunyah woodland wetland of Cuttaburra-Paroo River system, Mulga Lands Bioregion