Last updated:
11 Feb 2019
Distribution of the species within this region
The Silky Swainson-pea 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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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Silky Swainson-pea - 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.
- Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
- Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
- 150 Bottlewasher - Copperburr grassland of the arid 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
- Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
- 377 Copperburr low open shrubland on loam - clay flats and playas, western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and northern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
- New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 568 Broad-leaved Stringybark shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- 530 Nandewar Box - Western New England Blackbutt - Red Stringybark open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
- 965 Narrow-leaved Peppermint - Mountain Ribbon Gum grassy open forest of the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion
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- North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
- 506 Black Cypress Pine - White Box - Tumbledown Gum shrubby open forest / woodland mainly in the Mt Kaputar region, Nandewar Bioregion
- 453 Granite gorge Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Oleander Wattle low open woodland in the Warialda region
- 856 Grey Box - Rough-barked Apple shrub/grass open forest of northern parts of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
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- Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 338 Blakely's Red Gum - Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box woodland on Wyangala Granite in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 4152 Central West Tumbledown Gum Grassy Forest
- 353 Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Stringybark - box - Daviesia latifolia - snow grass open forest on sandy loam soils from acid volcanics in the Boorowa - Young region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregio
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- Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 609 Black Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on Mole Granite of the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- 502 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on granites of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
- 503 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum heath shrubland or woodland on granite outcrops of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3739 Monaro Hills Brittle Gum Exposed Forest
- 3742 Monaro Mountains Snow Gum Shrub Forest
- 3743 Monaro Ranges Exposed Shrub Forest
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 417 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - red gum +/- White Bloodwood shrubby open forest on hills of the southern Pilliga, Coonabarabran and Garawilla regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 341 Blakely's Red Gum - Red Box - Black Cypress Pine grass/shrub woodland on hills in the Upper Slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and western South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- 325 Blue-leaved Stringybark open forest of the Mudgee region NSW central western slopes
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- 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
- Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
- 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
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
- 797 Derived grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion
- 894 Kangaroo Grass - Purple Wire-grass - Mat-rush - Wallaby Grass - Common Buttons dry tussock grassland in the north-western and Eastern parts of the Southern Tablelands of the South Eastern Highlands Bi
- 896 Kangaroo Grass - Wallaby Grass - Snow Grass moist tussock grassland in the Monaro and the Southern Tablelands regions of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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- Western Slopes Grasslands
- 710 Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Common Woodruff clay plain grassland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 796 Derived grassland of the NSW South Western Slopes
- 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
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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
- 251 Mixed Eucalypt woodlands of floodplains in the southern-eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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- New England Grassy Woodlands
- 3351 Armidale Creekflat Snow Gum Woodland-Scrub
- 704 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest or woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- 510 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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- Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
- 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- 705 Blakely's Red Gum moist sedgey woodland on flats and drainage lines of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 350 Candlebark - Blakely's Red Gum - Long-leaved Box grassy woodland in the Rye Park to Yass region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highland Bioregion
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- Subalpine Woodlands
- 1191 Snow Gum - Candle Bark woodland on broad valley flats of the tablelands and slopes, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
- 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- 3341 Monaro-Gourock Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
- 534 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on sedimentary or basaltic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- 1099 Ribbon Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grassy woodland/open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
- Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
- 283 Apple Box - Blakely's Red Gum moist valley and footslopes grass-forb open forest of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 337 Apple Box - Silver Banksia - Drooping Sheoak open woodland - tall shrubland in protected gullies of the Coolac - Tumut serpentinite belt, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion.
- 282 Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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- Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
- Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
- 257 Dwyer's Red Gum - Currawang grassy low woodland of the central western plains of NSW
- 328 Red Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 329 Red Ironbark - Red Stringybark - Tumbledown Gum heath low woodland on ridges, central NSW South Western Slopes
- 334 Tick Bush - Drooping She Oak tall shrubland on granite hills of the NSW central western slopes
- 332 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Red Stringybark woodland on rocky hills in the NSW central western slopes
- North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
- 71 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - River Red Gum - bloodwood tall woodland on sandy loam alluvial and eolian soils in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
- 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
- Western Peneplain Woodlands
- 135 Coobah - Western Rosewood low open tall shrubland or woodland mainly on outwash areas in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
- 98 Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine - Wilga - Ironwood shrubby woodland on red sandy-loam soils in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 105 Poplar Box grassy woodland on flats mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- 72 White Cypress Pine - Poplar Box woodland on footslopes and peneplains mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion