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Mitchell grasses grow on clay soils, mainly between an upper limit of 600 millimetres or 24 inches and a lower limit of 200 millimetres or 8 inches average annual rainfall, and at even lower rainfall in depressions where the water concentrates following rains, for example in Sturt's Stony Desert.
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117:Commelinids
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866:Categories
457:2006-08-15
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376:in English
361:References
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349:See also
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