General Native Vegetation Profile:
Murrakool (northern)
Shallow Wetland | Lunettes and Sand Ridges | Level to Depressed Plains |
LANDFORM | Shallow Wetland | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Shallow Wetland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Seasonal or intermittent wetland, meadow, marsh, lake or lagoon with fringing River Red Gum and/or Grey Box. Alluvial, heavy grey clays. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Lake Genoe, Lake Poon Boon, wetlands along the Niemur River. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum |
GROUND COVERS | Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed |
Cyperus gymnocaulos | Spiny Sedge | |
Eleocharis sphacelata | Tall Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Juncus flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
J. ingens | Giant Rush | |
Ludwigia peploides subsp. montevidensis | Water Primrose | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
Nymphoides crenata | Wavy Marshwort | |
Ottelia ovalifolia | Swamp Lily | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Persicaria decipiens | Slender Knotweed | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Potamogeton crispus | Curly Pondweed | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Pseudoraphis spinescens | Spiny Mud-grass | |
Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
Typha domingensis | Cumbungi | |
T. orientalis | Cumbungi | |
Vallisneria australis. | Eel-weed |
LANDFORM | Lunettes and Sand Ridges | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes). | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey. Aeolian: well drained sandy-loams and loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Barham – Moulamein Rd between Colenso Park Rd and Wakool River, eastern part of Coonamit Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
C. gracilis | Murray Cypress Pine | |
Casuarina pauper | Black Oak | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia brachybotrya | Grey Wattle |
A. hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
A. oswaldii | Miljee | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Native Blackthorn | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila deserti | Ellangowan Poison-bush | |
E. longifolia | Emubush | |
Hakea leucoptera | Needlewood | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Santalum lanceolatum | Sandalwood | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris | Phyllodinous Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
M. pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida jerichoensis | No. 9 Wiregrass |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enneapogon nigricans | Pappus Grass | |
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare | Native Jasmine | |
Lomandra effusa | Scented Mat-rush | |
L. leucocephala | Woolly-head Mat-rush |
LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Bladder Saltbush Chenopod Shrubland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Bladder Saltbush and other chenopods. Alluvial, grey, self-mulching and cracking clays to red duplex soils with grey and brown clays, sometimes saline. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | No intact examples remain south of Billabong Creek, formerly occurred between Swan Hill and Kyalite. | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia melvillei | Myall |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
A. lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
A. pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
A. vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
M. brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
M. decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
S. stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
S. tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Hyalosperma glutinosum | Golden Sunray | |
Leiocarpa tomentosa | Woolly Plover daisy | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
M. enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
M. pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass |