TY - JOUR A1 - Bell, Dorothy M. A1 - Hunter, John T. A1 - Montgomery, Lisa T1 - Ephemeral wetlands of the Pilliga Outwash, northwest NSW T2 - Cunninghamia : a journal of plant ecology for eastern Australia N2 - The floristic composition and vegetation partitioning of the ephemeral wetlands of the Pilliga Outwash within the Pilliga National Park and Pilliga State Conservation Area (30˚30’S, 149˚22’E) on the North Western Plains of New South Wales are described. SPOT5 imagery was used to map 340 wetlands across the Pilliga Outwash. A total of 240 plots within 31 wetlands explored composition and species richness in relation to water depth and wetland size. The predominant community described is the species-rich herbfield of shallow basin wetlands, along with the structurally distinct but the less common sedgeland/herbfield of the deeper ‘tank’ wetlands and a single wetland with a floristically depauperate Diplachne fusca wet grassland. A total of 131 taxa were recorded including three species listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act (1995): Eriocaulon australasicum, Lepidium monoplocoides and Myriophyllum implicatum. New records for an additional six taxa were recorded for the North Western Plains. 11% of taxa were exotic in origin. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/29593 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-295931 SN - 2200-405X SN - 0727-9620 VL - 12 IS - 3 SP - 181 EP - 190 PB - Mount Annan Botanic Garden, The Administration Officer CY - Mount Annan, NSW ER -