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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 161 Great Sandy Desert 6.4 SITES OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE IN THE NT PORTION OF THE GREAT SANDY DESERT BIOREGION Site: 20-1-PL3 Lake White Level of significance: undetermined Location: 21 4' S 129 8' E; ca. 10 km SSW of Tanami Settlement. Area: 441 km2 Map sheets: The Granites SF 52-03 & Highland Rocks SF Bioregions: Great Sandy Desert (GSD 78%) & Tanami (TAN 22%) Tenure: Freehold - Lake Mackay Aboriginal Land Trust (89% of site) and Yiningarra Aboriginal Land Trust (10% of site) Description: Concentration of large discharge basins in the Great Sandy Desert Bioregion. Notes: Few botanical specimens have been collected from this region of the Northern Territory. This site requires further botanical exploration and survey. Taxa of Australian significance: none Taxa of NT significance: Gonocarpus eremophilus {3k}, Swainsona cyclocarpa {3k} Taxa of Southern NT (study area) significance: none Taxa of bioregional significance: none Other taxa only known in GSD bioregion (NT portion) from this site: Pterocaulon serrulatum var. serrulatum, Sida A90679 Limestone, Streptoglossa adscendens Vegetation Map Units (mapped as occurring at the site on the 1:1000,000 NT Vegetation Survey Map): Map unit 76 (1 < %): Triodia pungens (Soft Spinifex), Triodia schinzii (Feathertop Spinifex) hummock grassland with Acacia tall sparse-shrubland overstorey. Map unit 86 (61 %): Triodia pungens (Soft Spinifex) or Triodia basedowii (Hard Spinifex) hummock grassland with Acacia tall sparse-shrubland overstorey between dunes. Map unit 111 (38 %): Halosarcia (Samphire) low open-shrubland fringing bare salt pans. Site: 23-1-PL1 Yingurrdu Level of significance: undetermined Location: 23 47' S 130 7' E; Western deserts ca. 70 km south east of Kintore. Area: only mapped as point location Map sheet: Mount Rennie SF 52-15 Bioregion: Great Sandy Desert (GSD) Tenure: Freehold - Haasts Bluff Aboriginal Land Trust Description: This general area has been identified for further botanical collecting and survey. It presents as a shallow sandplain underlain by porous sandstones (principally Mereenie sandstone). The area appears to have numerous claypans and soaks. Notes: The has been no botanical survey in this potentially interesting area. Taxa of Australian significance: none Taxa of NT significance: none Taxa of Southern NT (study area) significance: none Taxa of bioregional significance: none