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Leigh, J.H. (CSIRO Division o f Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia) and Mulham, W.E. (CSIRO Division o f Land Resources Management, Deniliquin, Australia) 1977, Vascular plants o f the Riverine Plain o f New South Wales with notes on distribution and forage value. Telopea 1 (4): 225-291 (1977).—An enumeration of plants collected on the Riverine Plain is presented. The list includes plants collected by the authors in this semi-arid region of southern New South Wales over a fifteen-year period together with specimens lodged by other collectors at the National Herbarium of New South Wales, Sydney. Identification of the plants was carried out by tax­ onomists at the latter herbarium and voucher specimens are held either at this herbarium or at the CSIRO Riverina Laboratory, Deniliquin. Notes on the occurrence and forage value of each plant are included as well as a short description of the Riverine Plain and its vegetation. INTRODUCTION In 1965 an illustrated manual dealing with 270 of the more common grasses, forbs and small shrubs found on the Riverine Plain was published (Leigh and Mulham 1965). During the collection of material for that book and since that time, we have continued to collect specimens and make notes on species collected. Sources of reference to species we have not collected include relevant files of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture and the Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales, and publications of the National Herbarium of New South Wales, Sydney. Species are included in this list only where a specimen, identified by staff of the latter herbarium, is held either at the CSIRO Riverina Laboratory, Deniliquin, or at the National Herbarium of New South Wales. In this list specimens held at the Riverina Laboratory are followed by the abbreviation Den.; those held only at the National Herbarium are followed by NSW. The abbreviations indicate the existence of a specimen which could, if required, be used to check the plant’s specific name. It does not necessarily indicate that this is the only specimen held. We do not claim this list to be exhaustive, nor do we claim to have included all specimens collected from the Riverine Plain and retained at the National Herbar­ ium. PREVIOUS BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS Previous lists of plants collected on the Riverine Plain have been compiled only in as much as they have represented part of broad ecological surveys in which the Plain, or a portion of it, has been included. Turner (1904) listed plants which he (and others) collected in south-western New South Wales, the area covered stretching from Albury almost to the South Australian border, and from the Murray River to just north of Ivanhoe. No information on distribution of individual species was included. Beadle (1948) carried out a vegetation survey which covered all that portion of New South Wales west of an approximate line between Tocumwal on the Murray River to Mungindi on the Queensland border. Distribution of pasture species was listed in terms of presence within a number of vegetation associations. (In his unpublished D.Sc. thesis, Beadle also listed the occurrence of species on a county basis). * CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, P.O. Box 1600, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601. t CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management, Riverina Laboratory, Private Bag, P.O., Deniliquin, N.S.W. 2710. 226 Telopea Vol. 1 (4): 1977 Moore’s survey (1953a, 19536) of the south-eastern Riverina included portion of the south-eastern section of the Riverine Plain. Descriptive lists of species in relatively small study areas have been published by Williams (1955) and by Warren Wilson and Leigh (1964). Although no published information is available, special mention should be made of the specimens collected by Miss E. Officer of “Zara”, Wanganella, soon after the turn of the century. The National Herbarium of New South Wales has retained a great number of these specimens and, since many of the species are now either very rare or possibly extinct on the Riverine Plain, they form a valuable record. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In the compilation of this list over the last decade the authors have become indebted to a number of people for assistance in many diverse ways. We are grateful to Dr L.A.S. Johnson, Director of the National Herbarium of New South Wales, for permission to use the facilities at the Herbarium on several occasions, and to his staff, who have been extremely co-operative and helpful in the botanical deter­ minations of specimens, the checking of nomenclature and the preparation of this list for publication. Acknowledgement is made of the assistance given by the staff of the Herbarium Australiense, Canberra, in checking specimens expected to be held there. To various officers of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture and the Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales we tender our thanks for their permission to peruse their files. Our thanks are also due to colleagues and other interested persons for the occasional specimen of previously uncollected plants and for their drawing attention to errors and omissions. M r O.B. Williams, now of the Division of Land Resources Management, Canberra, formerly of the Division of Plant Industry, initiated the collection of plants at the Riverina Labora­ tory. ARRANGEMENT Families have been arranged in the order adopted by the National Herbarium of New South Wales in the “Flora of New South Wales” with the exception of the Pteridophyta which we have placed before the Gymnospermae. For convenience, genera and species have been listed in alphabetical order within their families. Introduced species (marked with an asterisk) have been included only where these have become naturalized, i.e. are able to persist in the natural environment either as perennials, or, in the case of annuals, by regeneration from seed. Information regarding palatability, poisonous characteristics etc. has been included where known. The use of the term “palatable” is an indication that a plant is eaten by domestic stock in the normal grazing situation.

Vascular plants of the Riverine plain of New South Wales with notes on distribution and pastoral use