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Plant species and sites of botanical significance in the southern bioregions of the Northern Territory

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Title

Plant species and sites of botanical significance in the southern bioregions of the Northern Territory

Other title

Matthew White ... [et al.]

Creator

White, Matthew; Albrecht, David; Duguid, Angus W.; Latz, Peter; Hamilton, Mary

Collection

E-Publications; PublicationNT; E-Books

Date

2000-12-00

Description

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).; This report provides a benchmark for the conservation status of botanical values in the southern, predominantly arid part of the Northern Territory. It will have many and varied uses, providing information about conservation values to land holders and managers as well as government departments and conservation groups.

Table of contents

Volume 1 : Significant vascular plants -- Volume 2 : Significant sites

Language

English

Subject

Plants -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs Region; Northern Territory -- Alice Springs Region

Publisher name

Arid Lands Environment Centre

Place of publication

Alice Springs (N.T.)

Format

2 v. : maps ; 30 cm.

File type

application/pdf.

ISBN

0724527842 (v. 1); 0724527850 (v. 2)

Copyright owner

Check within Publication or with content Publisher.

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/243744

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/601270

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/601264; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/601266; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/601268

Page content

Volume 2, Part 2, page 154 Great Sandy Desert Site: 24-2-2 Lake Amadeus Level of significance: bioregional Location: 24 46' S 130 55' E; Amadeus Basin north of Yulara. Area: 2756 km2 Map sheets: Lake Amadeus SG 52-4 & Bloods Range SG 52-3 Bioregions: Great Sandy Desert (GSD 96.6%) & Finke (FIN 3.4%) Tenure: Freehold - Petermann Aboriginal Land Trust (61% of site), Katiti Aboriginal Land Trust (61% of site), Land Settlement Aboriginal Corp. (<1% of site); Pastoral Lease - Curtain Springs Station (<1% of site) Description: Includes the large saline lake systems - Lake Neale and Lake Amadeus and fringing lunettes and sand plains. Notes: Extensive and remote site which remains poorly known to western botanists and plant ecologists. Numerous records of interesting plant taxa have been obtained from limited botanical exploration. The southern shores of both lakes support extensive Marble Gum woodlands - an unusual vegetation type in the Northern Territory. Criteria satisfied: A1 a ii), A1 b ii), B1 b2 ii), B1 b1 ii) Taxa of Australian significance: Daviesia eremaea {3K}, Sauropus ramosissimus {3KC-}, Sclerolaena symoniana {3KC-}, Stylidium inaequipetalum {3RCa} Taxa of NT significance: Acacia prainii {3k}, Amyema miraculosa subsp. boormanii {3k}, Brachyachne prostrata {3r only known in GSD from this site}, Calandrinia disperma {3k only known in GSD from this site}, Centipeda D18576 Andado {3k only known in FIN from this site}, Enneapogon caerulescens var. caerulescens {3r}, Eremophila alternifolia {3k}, Eriochiton sclerolaenoides {3k}, Eriochlamys behrii {3k only known in GSD from this site}, Frankenia punctata {3r [N] only known in GSD from this site}, Gunniopsis quadrifida {3r only known in GSD from this site}, Gunniopsis septifraga {3r only known in GSD from this site}, Halosarcia calyptrata {3k}, Halosarcia pruinosa {3r only known in GSD from this site}, Isolepis australiensis {3kC- only known in FIN from this site}, Lawrencia viridi-grisea {3r only known in GSD from this site}, Maireana appressa {3k only known in GSD from this site}, Maireana pentatropis {3r only known in GSD from this site}, Minuria multiseta {3r only known in GSD from this site}, Osteocarpum salsuginosum {3r only known in GSD from this site}, Paractaenum novae-hollandiae subsp. reversum {3kC-}, Swainsona cyclocarpa {3k} Taxa of Southern NT (study area) significance: none Taxa of bioregional significance: Atriplex velutinella {GSD (western range limit) [W] only known in GSD from this site}, Eremophila paisleyi {GSD (apparently rare)} Other taxa only known in GSD bioregion (NT portion) from this site: Bergia trimera, Harmsiodoxa blennodioides, Trigonella suavissima Vegetation Map Units (mapped as occurring at the site on the 1:1000,000 NT Vegetation Survey Map): Map unit 30 (46 %): Eucalyptus gongylocarpa (Marble Gum) open-woodland with open-hummock grassland understorey. Map unit 111 (3 %): Halosarcia (Samphire) low open-shrubland fringing bare salt pans. Map unit 81 (1 %): Triodia basedowii (Hard Spinifex) hummock grassland with Acacia tall sparse-shrubland overstorey. Map unit 93 (9 %): Triodia basedowii (Hard Spinifex) hummock grassland with Allocasuarina decaisneana (Desert Oak) openwoodland overstorey between dunes. Map unit 112 (38 %): Bare salt pan.