EVC/Bioregion Benchmark for Vegetation Quality Assessment Lowan Mallee bioregion EVC 103: Riverine Chenopod Woodland (syn. Black Box Chenopod Woodland) Description: Eucalypt woodland to 15 m tall with a diverse shrubby and grassy understorey occurring on most elevated riverine terraces. Confined to heavy clay soils on higher level terraces within or on the margins of riverine floodplains (or former floodplains), naturally subject to only extremely infrequent incidental shallow flooding from major events if at all flooded. Large trees: Species DBH(cm) #/ha Eucalyptus largiflorens 40 cm 5/ha Tree Canopy Cover: %cover Character Species Common Name Eucalyptus largiflorens 10% Black Box Acacia stenophylla River Coobah Understorey: Life form #Spp %Cover LF code Immature Canopy Tree 5% IT Medium Shrub 3 30% MS Small Shrub 5 25% SS Prostrate Shrub 1 1% PS Medium Herb 5 5% MH Small or Prostrate Herb* 5 10% SH Medium to Small Tufted Graminoid 2 5% MTG Largely seasonal life form Total understorey projective foliage cover 55% LF Code Species typical of at least part of EVC range Common Name Atriplex nummularia MS Old-man Saltbush MS Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot Eremophila divaricata divaricata MS ssp. Spreading Emu-bush SS Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Copperburr Enchylaena tomentosa tomentosa SS var. Ruby Saltbush Atriplex lindleyi SS Flat-top Saltbush Rhagodia spinescens SS Hedge Saltbush Sclerochlamys brachyptera PS Short-wing Saltbush Einadia nutans ssp. nutans MH Nodding Saltbush Calocephalus sonderi MH Pale Beauty-heads Senecio glossanthus MH Slender Groundsel Brachyscome lineariloba MH Hard-head Daisy SH Disphyma crassifolium ssp. clavellatum Rounded Noon-flower Maireana pentagona SH Hairy Bluebush Ecological Vegetation Class bioregion benchmark
EVC/Bioregion Benchmark for Vegetation Quality Assessment Lowan Mallee bioregion EVC 103: Riverine Chenopod Woodland (syn. Black Box Chenopod Woodland) Description: Eucalypt woodland to 15 m tall with a diverse shrubby and grassy understorey occurring on most elevated riverine terraces. Confined to heavy clay soils on higher level terraces within or on the margins of riverine floodplains (or former floodplains), naturally subject to only extremely infrequent incidental shallow flooding from major events if at all flooded. Large trees: Species Eucalyptus largiflorens DBH(cm) 40 cm #/ha 5/ha Tree Canopy Cover: %cover Character Species Common Name 10% Eucalyptus largiflorens Acacia stenophylla Black Box River Coobah Understorey: Life form Immature Canopy Tree #Spp %Cover 5% LF code IT Medium Shrub 3 30% MS Small Shrub 5 25% SS Prostrate Shrub 1 1% PS Medium Herb 5 5% MH Small or Prostrate Herb* 5 10% SH Medium to Small Tufted Graminoid 2 5% MTG Largely seasonal life form Total understorey projective foliage cover 55% LF Code MS Species typical of at least part of EVC range Atriplex nummularia Common Name Old-man Saltbush MS Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot MS Eremophila divaricata ssp. divaricata Spreading Emu-bush SS Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Copperburr SS Enchylaena tomentosa var. tomentosa Ruby Saltbush SS Atriplex lindleyi Flat-top Saltbush SS Rhagodia spinescens Hedge Saltbush PS Sclerochlamys brachyptera Short-wing Saltbush MH Einadia nutans ssp. nutans Nodding Saltbush MH Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads MH Senecio glossanthus Slender Groundsel MH Brachyscome lineariloba Hard-head Daisy SH Disphyma crassifolium ssp. clavellatum Rounded Noon-flower SH Maireana pentagona Hairy Bluebush Ecological Vegetation Class bioregion benchmark