General Native Vegetation Profile:
Roto (southern)
Valleys and Floodplains | Sandplains and Minor Dunefields | Sandplains and Low Rises |
LANDFORM | Valleys and Floodplains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Bimble Box Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Open Bimble Box woodland on floodplains and wide valleys with grassy understorey. Alluvial, red loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Euabolong – Hillston Rd, approximately 7.1 km east of the Kidman Way. | |
TREES >8M | Casuarina pauper | Belah |
Eremophila mitchellii | Budda | |
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
LOW SHRUBS < 2m |
Atriplex pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena lanicuspis | Woolly Copperburr | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Maireana humillima | Dwarf Bluebush | |
Sida cunninghamii | Ridge Sida |
LANDFORM | Sandplains and Minor Dunefields | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Callitris Mixed Woodland (Sandplains and minor dunefields). | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Woodlands to tall woodland dominated by White Cypress Pine with emergent eucalypts and Belah on sandplains and minor dunefields. Alluvial, red loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Trida – Roto Rd at the base of Warranary Hill, Hillston – Matakana Rd north of Willandra Creek. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang |
Acacia homalophylla | Yarran | |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus dwyeri | Dwyers Mallee Gum | |
Eucalyptus intertexta | Red Box | |
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia calamifolia | Wallowa |
Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga | Green Wattle | |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Bertya cunninghamii | Gooma Bush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata | Spoon leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS < 2m |
Chenopodium desertorum | Desert Goosefoot |
Eremophila glabra | Tar Bush | |
Goodenia ovata | Hop Goodenia | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Ajuga australis | Australian Bugle |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. scabra | Rough Speargrass | |
Cassytha melantha | Mallee Strangle vine | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. | Yellow Buttons | |
Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare | Native Jasmine | |
Minuria integerrima | Smooth Minuria | |
Podolepis arachnoidea | Clustered Copper wire Daisy | |
Sida trichopoda | High Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily |
LANDFORM | Sandplains and Low Rises | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Belah – Rosewood Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Belah and Rosewood, with and open shrubby understorey on sandplains and lunettes. Alluvial or aeolian, red or brown calcareous loams or loamy sands. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Trida area, adjacent to Willandra Ck floodplain | |
TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
Casuarina pauper | Belah | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia melvillei | Myall |
Acacia victoriae | Prickly Wattle | |
Alectryon oleifolius | Rosewood | |
Apophyllum anomalum | Warrior Bush | |
Eremophila sturtil | Turpentine | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris | phyllodinous Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS < 2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
Maireana erioclada | Rosy Bluebush | |
Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Sclerolaena diacantha | Grey Copperburr | |
Sclerolaena patenticuspis | Spear-fruit Copperburr | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White-top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
Vittadinia gracilius | Woolly New Holland Daisy |