General Native Vegetation Profile:
Murrakool
Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Shallow Depressions | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains |
LANDFORM | Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Riverine Forest. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs. Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Campbells Island State Forest, Murray River frontage. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. largiflorens | Black Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Exocarpos strictus | Dwarf Cherry | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Alternanthera denticulata | Lesser Joyweed | |
Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
R. duttoniana | Brown back Wallaby Grass | |
Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Calotis scapigera | Tufted Burr-daisy | |
Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
C. inversa | Knob Sedge | |
C. tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
Glinus lotoides | Hairy Carpet-weed | |
Juncus ingens | Giant Rush | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myriophyllum crispatum | Common Water-milfoil | |
M. papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Plantago cunninghamii | Sago weed | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Ranunculus pumilio | Ferny Buttercup | |
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
Vallisneria australis | Eel-weed | |
Wahlenbergia fluminalis | River Bluebell |
LANDFORM | Shallow Depressions | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Lignum – Goosefoot / Canegrass Swamp. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Open scrub to tussock grassland in depressions and low lying areas subject to intermittent flooding. Alluvial, heavy grey, cracking clays, sometimes slightly saline. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Wilsons Lake between Swan Hill and Toomah. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Amaranthus macrocarpus | Dwarf Amaranth |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
A. suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
E. pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
E. plana | Ribbed Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
J. flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
J. radula | Hoary Rush | |
Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
Typha domingensis | Cumbungi | |
T. orientalis | Cumbungi |
LANDFORM | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Black Box Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Black Box woodland with often sparse understorey of grasses or shrubs. Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Chilvers Lane near Moulamein, Murrabit Rd between Murra Lane and Cobramunga Rd, Coonamit Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. largiflorens | Black Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
A. victoriae | Prickly Wattle | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. pruinosa | Yellow Gum | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Hakea leucoptera | Needlewood | |
Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
Eremophila divaricata | Spreading Emubush | |
E. maculata | Spotted Fuchsia | |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
Nicotiana glauca | Tobacco Bush | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass |
Austrostipa aristiglumis | Plains Grass | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Eryngium ovinum | Blue Devil | |
Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Stemodia florulenta | Blue Rod | |
Typha orientalis | Cumbungi |