In grows in mallee shrubland on loamy soils. They inhabit sclerophyll forest, mallee, and open heathland vegetation. It may also inhabit chenopod shrublands, eucalyptus woodlands, and mallee shrublands. They are found in woodlands and scrublands, including acacia, eucalyptus, mallee, and casuarina. It is often found in association with mallee eucalypts. Their plant hosts include "Banksia" and probably "Xanthorrhoea" and other mallee, woodland and heathland plants. It is less common in mallee scrub. Incubation mounds of the mallee fowl can reach heights of and widths of . In southwest Australia they occur in hummock grass in mallee. This biotic factor is of the most influence in the dispersion of mallee emu-wren. Later, he worked for his uncles in The Mallee. It is probably formed on the leaves of other mallee Eucalypts. They are usually made from a hardwood such as mallee. It is also the junction for a railway line west parallel to the Mallee Highway. Smaller fires included; East Gippsland, Mount Macedon, Mallee and the Mornington Peninsula.