Sandy Inland Mouse - Mulga Lands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Distribution of the species within this region

IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Cuttaburra-Paroo	Known	None
Kerribree Basin	Predicted	None
Nebine Plains	Known	None
Paroo Overflow	Predicted	None
Paroo-Darling Sands	Predicted	None
Urisino Sandplains	Predicted	None
Warrego Plains	Predicted	None
Warrego Sands	Predicted	None
West Warrego	Predicted	None
White Cliffs Plateau	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

• Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
  • Gibber Transition Shrublands
    • 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
    • 213 Murrays Wattle sparse shrubland/forbland on sand rises of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  • 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
    • 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
    • 123 Mulga - Dead Finish on stony hills mainly of the Channel Country Bioregion and Broken Hill Complex Bioregion
    • 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
    • 359 Porcupine Grass - Red Mallee - Gum Coolabah hummock grassland / low sparse woodland on metamorphic ranges on the Barrier Range, Broken Hill Complex Bioregion
    • 121 Umbrella Mulga - Beefwood open shrubland on Peery Hills, 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
    • 222 Low Bluebush - Bladder Saltbush open shrubland of the arid zone
    • 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
  • 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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• Forested wetlands
  • Inland Riverine Forests
    • 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
    • 247 Lignum shrubland wetland on regularly flooded alluvial depressions in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 261 Swamp Paper-bark shrubland wetland ringing depressions in the Mulga Lands Bioregion

• Grasslands
  • Riverine Plain Grasslands
    • 165 Derived corkscrew grass grassland/forbland on sandplains and plains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
  • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
    • 43 Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones

• Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
  • Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
    • 29 Brigalow open woodland on clay soils in the Nyngan-Bourke-Enngonia regions of the NSW north-western plains
  • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
    • 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
    • 230 Coolabah woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses in arid zone, mainly in the Channel Country Bioregion
    • 67 Yapunyah woodland wetland of Cuttaburra-Paroo River system, Mulga Lands 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
  • Dune Mallee Woodlands
    • 171 Spinifex linear dune mallee mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
  • Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
    • 23 Yarran tall open shrubland of the sandplains and plains of the semi-arid (warm) and arid climate zones
  • 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
    • 58 Black Oak - Western Rosewood open woodland on deep sandy loams mainly in the 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
  • Western Peneplain Woodlands
    • 134 Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains
    • 245 Pine - Belah low open woodland of the western Cobar Peneplain and northern Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • 103 Poplar Box - Gum Coolabah - White Cypress Pine shrubby woodland mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
    • 109 Poplar Box - Mulga - Ironwood woodland on red loam soils on plains in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and north-eastern Mulga Lands Bioregion