EVC/Bioregion Benchmark for Vegetation Quality Assessment Murray Mallee bioregion EVC 829: Chenopod Grassland Description: Open to sparse shrubland with a more or less continuous tussock grass sward found on heavy somewhat sodic clay plains fringing the active floodplains of major watercourses such as the Loddon and Avoca Rivers. Life Forms: Life form #Spp %Cover LF code Medium Shrub 1 10% MS Shrub 6 30% SS Large Herb 1 1% LH Medium Herbs* 5 15% MH Small or Prostrate Herbs* 4 5% SH Medium to Small Tufted Graminoid 3 20% MTG Bryophytes/Lichens na 10% BL Soil Crust na 20% S/C * Largely seasonal life form LF Code Species typical of at least part of EVC range Common Name MS Lycium australe Australian Box-thorn Nitraria billardierei MS Nitre-bush SS Sclerolaena diacantha Grey Copperburr Maireana aphylla SS Leafless Bluebush Minuria cunninghamii SS Bush Minuria SS Lawrencia squamata Thorny Lawrencia Sclerochlamys brachyptera PS Short-wing Saltbush PS Atriplex semibaccata Berry Saltbush Podolepis canescens LH Grey Podolepis MH Rhodanthe stuartiana Clay Sunray Teucrium racemosum MH s.s. Grey Germander MH Maireana excavata Bottle Bluebush Sida corrugata MH Variable Sida SH Hyalosperma glutinosum ssp. glutinosum Golden Sunray Hyalosperma semisterile SH Orange Sunray SH Rhodanthe pygmaea Pygmy Sunray Pogonolepis muelleriana SH Stiff Cup-flower Austrostipa aristiglumis LTG Plump Spear-grass MTG Austrostipa Spear-grass spp. Whalleya proluta MTG Rigid Panic MTG Enteropogon acicularis Spider Austrodanthonia setacea MTG Bristly Ecological Vegetation Class bioregion benchmark
EVC/Bioregion Benchmark for Vegetation Quality Assessment Murray Mallee bioregion EVC 829: Chenopod Grassland Description: Open to sparse shrubland with a more or less continuous tussock grass sward found on heavy somewhat sodic clay plains fringing the active floodplains of major watercourses such as the Loddon and Avoca Rivers. Life Forms: Life form #Spp %Cover LF code Medium Shrub 1 10% MS Shrub 6 30% SS Large Herb 1 1% LH Medium Herbs* 5 15% MH Small or Prostrate Herbs* 4 5% SH Medium to Small Tufted Graminoid 3 20% MTG Bryophytes/Lichens na 10% BL Soil Crust na 20% S/C * Largely seasonal life form LF Code MS Species typical of at least part of EVC range Lycium australe Common Name Australian Box-thorn MS Nitraria billardierei Nitre-bush SS Sclerolaena diacantha Grey Copperburr SS Maireana aphylla Leafless Bluebush SS Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria SS Lawrencia squamata Thorny Lawrencia PS Sclerochlamys brachyptera Short-wing Saltbush PS Atriplex semibaccata Berry Saltbush LH Podolepis canescens Grey Podolepis MH Rhodanthe stuartiana Clay Sunray MH Teucrium racemosum s.s. Grey Germander MH Maireana excavata Bottle Bluebush MH Sida corrugata Variable Sida SH Hyalosperma glutinosum ssp. glutinosum Golden Sunray SH Hyalosperma semisterile Orange Sunray SH Rhodanthe pygmaea Pygmy Sunray SH Pogonolepis muelleriana Stiff Cup-flower LTG Austrostipa aristiglumis Plump Spear-grass MTG Austrostipa spp. Spear-grass MTG Whalleya proluta Rigid Panic MTG Enteropogon acicularis Spider MTG Austrodanthonia setacea Bristly Ecological Vegetation Class bioregion benchmark
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