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Acacia aneura Alice Springs Alice Springs area alluvial plains alluvium aneura mulga Aristida Atriplex Australia basalt basins Bassia Bassia spp bluebush calcrete catchments channels clay dense dissected drought Eragrostis eriopoda Eremophila erosional Eucalyptus Eucalyptus microtheca flat flood-plains ft high gidgee gneiss granite grasses and forbs grazing halophytic hard-pan hills Hunter valley Kochia Land Form land system consists lateritic limestone lower lowlands MacDonnell Ranges mainly margins Meekatharra mile wide minor Mitchell grass moderate mulga northern occur outcrop palatable pasture land perennial grasses plateau Plectrachne rain rainfall red clayey sands red earths rocks saline saltbush sand plain sandstone sandy shale shallow short annual grasses short grass-forb pastures short grasses shrubland shrubs shrubs and low slopes small areas soil groupings sparse low trees Sparse shrubs species spinifex stocking rate sub-alliance Tennant Creek texture texture-contrast soils Triodia pungens tussock grasses tussocks undulating unit vegetation wanderrie weathered land surface Wiluna yd wide