Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Cadellia pentastylis (Ooline) community in the Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions
Gazetted date:
11 Sep 1998
Profile last updated:
07 Sep 2017
Description
The Ooline community is an unusual and distinctive forest community with the canopy dominated by the tree Ooline (Cadellia pentastylis). Other canopy species include White Box (Eucalyptus albens), Ironbarks (E. beyeriana and E. melanophloia), Dirty Gum (E. chloroclada), Narrow-leaved Grey Box (E. pilligaensis), Green Mallee (E. viridis) and White Cypress Pine (Callitris glaucophylla). The understorey is made up of a range of shrubs, such as Wattles (Acacia spp.), and grasses.
Distribution
Extensively cleared and now known from only seven main locations on the North West Slopes in NSW, between Narrabri and the Queensland border, and also in Queensland.
Habitat and ecology
- Usually occurs on undulating terrain on a variety of soil types, between 300-450 m altitude.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Clearing of habitat for agriculture and grazing.
- Grazing and trampling by domestic stock.
- Clearing and damage to habitat by road maintenance works.
- Fragmentation and risk of extinction due to small, scattered remnants
- Lack of value and understanding of the TEC by landholders and managers of the TEC
- Erosion of soils
- Overbrowsing by both domestic and wild goats
- Risk of fire both wildlife and hazard reduction burns
- Climate change leading to longer dry periods altering vegetation structure and composition
Recovery strategies
A targeted strategy for managing this species has been developed under the Saving Our Species program; click
here for details. For more information on the Saving Our Species program click
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Activities to assist this species
- Support local Landcare groups.
- Assist with the control of feral goats.
- Protect areas of Ooline vegetation from frequent fire.
- Protect areas of Ooline vegetation from grazing stock.
- Identify roadside populations and areas of habitat and protect during road maintenance works.
- Control weeds.
- Protect areas of Ooline vegetation from clearing or disturbance.
- Encourage regeneration around remnants of Ooline vegetation.
Information sources
- Benson, J. (1993) The Biology and Management of Ooline (Cadellia pentastylis) in NSW. Species Management Report Number 2 (NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney)
- Benson, J.S., Richards, P.G., Waller, S. and Allen, C.B. (2010) New South Wales Vegetation classification and Assessment: Part 3 Plant communities of the NSW Brigalow Belt South, Nandewar and west New England Bioregions and update of NSW Western Plains and South-western Slopes plant communities, Version 3 of the NSWVCA database. Cunninghamia 11(4): 457-579
- Curran, T.J., Clarke, P.J. and Bruhl, J.J. (2008) A broad typology of dry rainforests on the western slopes of New South Wales. Cunninghamia 10(3): 381-405
- Leigh, J.H. and Briggs, J.D. (eds.) (1992) Threatened Australian Plants - overview and case studies. (Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra)
- NSW Scientific Committee (1998) Cadellia pentastylis community in the Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South bioregions - Endangered ecological community determination - final.
- NSW Scientific Committee (2011) Cadellia pentastylis (Ooline) community in the Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South bioregions - Minor amendment to Endangered ecological community determination.
- Porteners, M. and Robertson, G. (2003) Threatened Plants in Western New South Wales: Information Review. (NSW NPWS, Hurstville)
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