Freckled Duck - Murray Darling Depression: Distribution and vegetation associations

Distribution of the species within this region

IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Darling Depression	Known	None
South Olary Plain	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

• Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
  • Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
    • 225 Bladder Saltbush low open chenopod shrubland of the Strzelecki dunefields of the arid climate zone

• Forested wetlands
  • Eastern Riverine Forests
    • 42 River Red Gum / River Oak riparian woodland wetland in the Hunter Valley
    • 1270 Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelands
  • Inland Riverine Forests
    • 10 River Red Gum - Black Box woodland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 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)
    • 8 River Red Gum - Warrego Grass - Couch Grass riparian tall woodland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 7 River Red Gum - Warrego Grass - herbaceous riparian tall open forest wetland mainly in the Riverina Bioregion
    • 5 River Red Gum herbaceous-grassy very tall open forest wetland on inner floodplains in the lower slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and the eastern Riverina Bioregion.
    • 78 River Red Gum riparian tall woodland / open forest wetland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 249 River Red Gum swampy woodland wetland on cowals (lakes) and associated flood channels in central NSW
    • 36 River Red Gum tall to very tall open forest / woodland wetland on rivers on floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 2 River Red Gum-sedge dominated very tall open forest in frequently flooded forest wetland along major rivers and floodplains in south-western NSW
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• Freshwater wetlands
  • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
    • 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
    • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
    • 3961 Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
    • 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
    • 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
    • 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
    • 3969 Northern Sands Machaerina-Eleocharis Sedgeland
    • 3971 Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
    • 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
    • 1738 Spirodella freshwater wetland
    • 3972 Sydney Creekflat Wetland
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  • 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
    • 17 Lignum shrubland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) plains (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 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
    • 261 Swamp Paper-bark shrubland wetland ringing depressions in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
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  • Inland Floodplain Swamps
    • 66 Artesian Mound Spring sedgeland wetland mainly of the Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • 181 Common Reed - Bushy Groundsel aquatic tall reedland grassland wetland of inland river systems
    • 182 Cumbungi rushland wetland of shallow semi-permanent water bodies and inland watercourses
    • 226 Cyperus - Typha sedgeland wetland of the arid zone climate zone
    • 360 Gilgai wetland mosaic in the southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • 205 Marsh Club-rush wetland very tall sedgeland of inland watercourses, mainly Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 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)
    • 410 Swamp Paper-bark very tall shrubland wetland on sodic soils in the Pilliga Scrub region
    • 1291 Warrego Grass - Nardoo wet grassland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 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
    • 3932 Central and Southern Tableland Swamp Meadow Complex
  • Montane Lakes
    • 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands

• Grasslands
  • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
    • 50 Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
    • 242 Rats Tail Couch sod grassland wetland of inland floodplains

• Miscellaneous ecosystems
  • Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
    • 99996 Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

• Saline wetlands
  • Inland Saline lakes
    • 189 Ephemeral forbland wetland of low-saline lake-beds of the arid and semi-arid (warm) climate zones

• Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
  • Inland Floodplain Woodlands
    • 13 Black Box - Lignum woodland wetland of the inner floodplains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)