Territory Stories

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

Details:

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

Site: 19-4-4 Headwaters of Brunchilly Creek Level of significance: bioregional Location: 19 3' S 134 39' E; ca. 100 km north west of Tennant Creek. Area: 111 km2 Map sheet: Tennant Creek SE 53-14 Bioregions: Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD 60.5%) & Tanami (TAN 39.5%) Tenure: Pastoral Lease - Brunchilly Station (100% of site) Description: This site includes a highly disjunct population of Acacia tephrina, which occurs at the boundary between the Mitchell Grass Downs bioregion and the Tanami Bioregion. Criteria satisfied: B1 b1 ii) Taxa of Australian significance: none Taxa of NT significance: Acacia tephrina {3r only known in study area from this site}, Brachycome A58350 Newcastle Waters Station {3r} Taxa of Southern NT (study area) significance: none Taxa of bioregional significance: none Other taxa only known in MGD bioregion (NT portion) from this site: Wedelia stirlingii Vegetation Map Units (mapped as occurring at the site on the 1:1000,000 NT Vegetation Survey Map): Map unit 34 (2 %): Eucalyptus dichromophloia (Variable-barked Bloodwood) low open-woodland with Triodia pungens (Soft Spinifex) hummock grassland understorey. Map unit 42 (17 %): Corymbia opaca (Bloodwood) low open-woodland with Triodia pungens (Soft Spinifex) hummock grassland understorey. Map unit 96 (79 %): Astrebla pectinata (Barley Mitchell grass) grassland. %U %U 19-4-4 No. 13 Bore No. 14 Bore Toolaway Waterhole N AMG Zone53 1900' 1900' 13445' 13445' 460000 460000 470000 470000 7890000 7890000 7900000 7900000 Volume 2, Part 2, page 232 Mitchell Grass Downs