EVC/Bioregion Benchmark for Vegetation Quality Assessment Victorian Volcanic Plain bioregion Heavier-soils EVC 132_61: Plains Grassland Description: Treeless vegetation mostly less than 1 m tall dominated by largely graminoid and herb life forms. Occupies fertile cracking basalt soils prone to seasonal waterlogging in areas receiving at least 500 mm annual rainfall. Life Forms: Life form #Spp %Cover LF code Large Herb 2 5% LH Medium Herb 12 20% MH Small or Prostrate Herb 4 5% SH Large Tufted Graminoid 1 5% LTG Medium to Small Tufted Graminoid 13 40% MTG Medium to Tiny Non-tufted Graminoid 4 5% MNG Bryophytes/Lichens and Soil Crust* na 20% BL * Note: treat as one life form in this EVC LF Code Species typical of at least part of EVC range Common Name SS Pimelea humilis Common Rice-flower Rumex dumosus LH Wiry Dock MH Calocephalus citreus Lemon Beauty-heads Acaena echinata MH Sheep's Burr MH Leptorhynchos squamatus Scaly Buttons Eryngium ovinum MH Blue Devil SH Solenogyne dominii Smooth Solenogyne Lobelia pratioides SH Poison Lobelia LTG Austrostipa bigeniculata Kneed Spear-grass Dichelachne crinita LTG Long-hair Plume-grass Themeda triandra MTG Kangaroo Grass MTG Austrodanthonia caespitosa Common Wallaby-grass Elymus scaber scaber MTG var. Common Wheat-grass MTG Schoenus apogon Common Bog-sedge Microlaena stipoides stipoides MNG var. Weeping Grass MNG Thelymitra pauciflora s.l. Slender Sun-orchid Microtis unifolia MNG Common Onion-orchid SC Convolvulus erubescens Pink Bindweed Recruitment: Episodic/Fire or Grazing. Desirable period between disturbances is 5 years. Organic Litter: 10% cover Ecological Vegetation Class bioregion benchmark
EVC/Bioregion Benchmark for Vegetation Quality Assessment Victorian Volcanic Plain bioregion EVC 132_61: Heavier-soils Plains Grassland Description: Treeless vegetation mostly less than 1 m tall dominated by largely graminoid and herb life forms. Occupies fertile cracking basalt soils prone to seasonal waterlogging in areas receiving at least 500 mm annual rainfall. Life Forms: Life form #Spp %Cover LF code Large Herb 2 5% LH Medium Herb 12 20% MH Small or Prostrate Herb 4 5% SH Large Tufted Graminoid 1 5% LTG Medium to Small Tufted Graminoid 13 40% MTG Medium to Tiny Non-tufted Graminoid 4 5% MNG Bryophytes/Lichens and Soil Crust* na 20% BL * Note: treat as one life form in this EVC LF Code Species typical of at least part of EVC range Common Name SS Pimelea humilis Common Rice-flower LH Rumex dumosus Wiry Dock MH Calocephalus citreus Lemon Beauty-heads MH Acaena echinata Sheep's Burr MH Leptorhynchos squamatus Scaly Buttons MH Eryngium ovinum Blue Devil SH Solenogyne dominii Smooth Solenogyne SH Lobelia pratioides Poison Lobelia LTG Austrostipa bigeniculata Kneed Spear-grass LTG Dichelachne crinita Long-hair Plume-grass MTG Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass MTG Austrodanthonia caespitosa Common Wallaby-grass MTG Elymus scaber var. scaber Common Wheat-grass MTG Schoenus apogon Common Bog-sedge MNG Microlaena stipoides var. stipoides Weeping Grass MNG Thelymitra pauciflora s.l. Slender Sun-orchid MNG Microtis unifolia Common Onion-orchid SC Convolvulus erubescens Pink Bindweed Recruitment: Episodic/Fire or Grazing. Desirable period between disturbances is 5 years. Organic Litter: 10% cover Ecological Vegetation Class bioregion benchmark
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