Long-haired Rat - Darling Riverine Plains: Distribution and vegetation associations

Distribution of the species within this region

IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Louth Plains	Predicted	None
Menindee	Predicted	None
Wilcannia Plains	Predicted	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

• Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
  • Gibber Transition Shrublands
    • Gidgee chenopod woodland on red-brown clays in the semi-arid (hot) climate zone mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion.
    • Gidgee of the intermittent watercourses or the arid zone (mainly Channel Country Bioregion and Simpson Strezlecki Dunefields Bioregion)
  • Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
    • Broombush shrubland in dunefields of the arid climate zone
    • Cabbage-tree Wattle shrubland of the inland plains and drainage lines
    • Narrow-leaved Hopbush - Scrub Turpentine - Senna shrubland on semi-arid and arid sandplains and dunes.
    • Purple Wood wattle shrubland of the arid zone sandplains
    • Sandhill Wattle open shrubland on sand ridges mainly in the arid zone
    • Senna - Mulga - Needlewood open shrubland on loam-clay soils in swales and on the edges of claypans in the arid zone
    • Woollybutt Grass open grassland on red earths of the inland plains
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  • Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
    • Desert Paper-bark shrubland wetland of semi-arid and arid climate zone watercourses.
    • Porcupine Grass - Red Mallee - Gum Coolabah hummock grassland / low sparse woodland on metamorphic ranges on the Barrier Range, Broken Hill Complex Bioregion

• Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
  • Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
    • Bladder Saltbush low open chenopod shrubland of the Strzelecki dunefields of the arid climate zone
  • Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
    • Bladder Saltbush shrubland on stony plains and downs of the arid zone
    • Bluebush shrubland on stony rises and downs in the arid and semi-arid zones
    • Cotton Bush - copperburr open shrubland of the arid climate zone
    • Mitchell Grass - saltbush grassland/shrubland of the gibber downs of the arid climate zone
    • Prickly Wattle open shrubland of drainage lines on stony rises and plains of the arid climate zone
    • Shrubby Twinleaf - saltbush open shrubland on silcrete scarps of the arid zone
    • Windmill Grass - love grass - daisy derived grassland/forbland of arid climate zone
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  • Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
    • Copperburr low open shrubland on loam - clay flats and playas, western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and northern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Old Man Saltbush - mixed chenopod shrubland of the semi-arid hot (persistently dry) and arid climate zones (north-western NSW)

• Forested wetlands
  • Inland Riverine Forests
    • River Red Gum woodland wetland of rocky creeks in the ranges of the arid climate zone

• Freshwater wetlands
  • Inland Floodplain Shrublands
    • Budda Pea - Channel Millet ephemeral reedland wetland on floodplains in north-western NSW
    • Canegrass swamp tall grassland wetland of drainage depressions, lakes and pans of the inland plains
    • Eurah shrubland of inland floodplains
    • Golden Goosefoot shrubland wetland in swamps of the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) zones
    • Lignum shrubland wetland on floodplains and depressions of the Mulga Lands Bioregion, Channel Country Bioregion in the arid and semi-arid (hot) climate zones
    • Nitre Goosefoot shrubland wetland on clays of the inland floodplains
    • Swamp Paper-bark shrubland wetland ringing depressions in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
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  • Inland Floodplain Swamps
    • Artesian Mound Spring sedgeland wetland mainly of the Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • Common Reed - Bushy Groundsel aquatic tall reedland grassland wetland of inland river systems
    • Cumbungi rushland wetland of shallow semi-permanent water bodies and inland watercourses
    • Cyperus - Typha sedgeland wetland of the arid zone climate zone
    • Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
    • Shallow freshwater wetland sedgeland in depressions on floodplains on inland alluivial plains and floodplains
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• Grasslands
  • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
    • Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
    • Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
    • Rats Tail Couch sod grassland wetland of inland floodplains

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

• Saline wetlands
  • Inland Saline lakes
    • Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
    • Neverfail Grass - ephemeral herbaceous grassland forbland of interdune claypans mainly in the arid climate zone
    • Samphire saline shrubland/forbland wetland of lake beds and lake margins in the arid and semi-arid (hot) zones
    • Sparse saltbush forbland wetland of the irregularly inundated lakes of the arid and semi-arid (persistently hot) climate zones
    • Sturts Pigface sparse forbland of saline soils of the arid zone
    • Submerged flora of saline permanent wetland of the arid zone
    • Submerged flora of saline temporary wetland of the arid zone
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• Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
  • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
    • Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
    • Coolabah open woodland wetland dunefield depressions of the arid zone
    • Coolabah open woodland wetland with chenopod/grassy ground cover on grey and brown clay floodplains
    • Coolabah woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses in arid zone, mainly in the Channel Country Bioregion
    • River Red Gum open woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses mainly of the arid climate zone
    • River Red Gum woodland wetland of lake fringes in the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
    • Yapunyah woodland wetland of Cuttaburra-Paroo River system, Mulga Lands Bioregion
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• Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
  • Desert Woodlands
    • Western Bloodwood - Whitewood low open woodland on Tibooburra Granite