Native Vegetation Group 19 - Salt-tolerant and/or succulent Shrublands
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Salt-tolerant and/or succulent Shrublands Native Vegetation Map
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Ecological Vegetation Class Descriptions
| 19.1 Salt-tolerant and/or succulent Shrublands – Coastal |  |
| 19.2 Salt-tolerant and/or succulent Shrublands – Inland |  |
Bioregional Conservation Status and EVC benchmarks
19.1 Salt-tolerant and/or succulent Shrublands – Coastal
EVC 9 Coastal Saltmarsh
Occurs on and immediately above marine and estuarine tidal flats and contains distinct floristic communities as bands or zones in the same location, depending on the positioning of the various floristic communities in relation to the saline environment. Consists of a range of life forms including succulent herbs, low succulent shrubs, rushes and sedges.
EVC 140 Mangrove Shrubland
Shrubland confined to protected low energy coastal environments where there is sufficient shelter from strong wave action and currents to allow the accumulation of fine sediments, generally on mud flats within the tidal zone.
EVC 196 Seasonally Inundated Sub-saline Herbland
Dominated by low-growing succulents and estuarine species. Occupies broad shallow basins that fill for several months following major floods. The geology is recent aeolian estuarine sands and the rainfall is approximately 600 mm per annum. Soils are grey silty clays.
19.2 Salt-tolerant and/or succulent Shrublands – Inland
EVC 101 Samphire Shrubland
Low open shrub layer of succulent chenopods on saline clay pans. Found in association with the various halite salinas that have developed within evaporative basins or 'boinkas'.
EVC 636 Brackish Lake Aggregate
Collective label for the various zones of vegetation associated with the floors and verges of Brackish Lakes. Identifiable components of the aggregate variously include Brackish Aquatic Herbland, Brackish Lake Bed Herbland, Brackish Herbland and Plains Brackish Sedge Wetland / Brackish Wetland.
EVC 648 Saline Lake-verge Aggregate
Collective label for the various zones of vegetation associated with the verges of saline waterbodies. Potential components of the saline lake aggregate variously include Saline Aquatic Meadow, Plains Saltmarsh, Brackish Herbland, Brackish Sedgeland, Brackish Wetland and (on drier verges) Brackish Grassland and Brackish Shrubland.
EVC 676 Salt Paperbark Woodland
Low non-eucalypt woodland with herbaceous ground-layer dominated by halophytic chenopods and other succulent herbs with a range of annual grasses and herbs. Occurs on heavy soils with large salt concentrations (sometimes with a shallow sand overlay on lake verges) in areas with seasonally waterlogged heavy clay soils on saline flats and lake verges.
EVC 677 Inland Saltmarsh
Low open shrub layer of succulent chenopods on saline clay pans. Found in association with the various halite salinas that have developed within evaporative basins or 'boinkas'.
EVC 708 Hypersaline Inland Saltmarsh Aggregate
Collective label for the various zones of vegetation associated with the floors and verges of hypersaline lakes. Typically comprising salt pan areas (sometimes occupied by aquatic halophytic monocots during wet phases), fringed by a mono-specific (or nearly so) low shrubland of stunted succulent chenopods.
EVC 717 Saline Lake Aggregate
Permanent to seasonal shallow lakes and inundated depressions along poorly defined drainage lines and ranging from sites becoming hyper-saline when dry, to brackish (to nearly fresh) water. The soils are typically anaerobic, primarily comprising various combinations of sand, silt, clay or shell-bed, with high organic content (e.g. organic silts, humic sandy soils and salinized clays).
EVC 820 Sub-saline Depression Shrubland
A low open shrubland/herbland dominated by chenopods and succulents and occurring on the highest terraces of the former (i.e. pre-1750) Murray River floodplain in far North-West Victoria. It occupies semi-saline treeless pans in low-lying areas within Riverine Chenopod Woodland on very heavy and mildly saline clay soils.
EVC 888 Plains Saltmarsh
Typically species-poor samphire dominated low shrubland or locally variously herbland or grassland. Occurs in seasonally or intermittently waterlogged shallow depressions on salinised heavy grey clay soils.
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Bioregional Conservation Status and EVC benchmarks
An EVC may have a different conservation status in each bioregion in which it is found. To look up an EVC's Bioregional Conservation Status (BCS), download the spreadsheet on the Simplified Native Vegetation Groups page.
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