Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Ozothamnus vagans
Gazetted date:
21 Dec 2012
Profile last updated:
07 Aug 2024
Description
A straggling, spindly shrub up to 2 m high. Branches are prominently ridged, hairless or with loose webby hairs on young growth. Leaves are lance-shaped, 15–50 mm long and 3–5 mm wide, rarely to 100 mm long and 15 mm wide, with slightly backward-curved margins. The leaf has a stalk 1-1.5 mm long and a blade with 3 longitudinal veins prominent on both surfaces. The upper surface is dark green and the lower surface is pale green with a covering of short woolly hairs. Flower heads occur in small terminal panicles. Heads are bell-shaped, 2–3 mm long and 2–3 mm in diameter. Pale golden bracts surround the flower heads. Flower heads consist of 12–14 individual florets with 6 outer female florets.
Distribution
Restricted to Mt Warning and the Tweed and McPherson Ranges of north east NSW and south east Queensland.
Habitat and ecology
- Mostly recorded from open situations on the margins of, or within, wet sclerophyll forest, subtropical rainforest and cool temperate rainforest.
- Ozothamnus vagans is generally associated with rhyolite or basalt soils and occurs at elevations of greater than 500 m.
- The species prefers areas of disturbance and grows in sunny locationson escarpment edges, in large gaps in the rainforest, and along roadsides.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Lack of knowledge about the ecological requirements of the species.
- Road maintenance activities including herbicide use or disturbance prior to seed set.
- Lack of disturbance or canopy openings providing suitable habitat.
- Vulnerable to stochastic events due to the restricted and fragmented distribution of the species.
- Vulnerable to stochastic events due to small population size.
- Inappropriate fire regime for species requirements.
- Weeds, particularly at roadside populations, including Mistflower and Crofton weed.
Recovery strategies
Priority actions are the specific, practical things that must be done to recover a threatened species, population or ecological
community. The Office of Environment and Heritage has identified
1 priority actions
to help recover the Wollumbin Dogwood in New South Wales.
Activities to assist this species
- Research ecological requirements of the species including appropriate distrubance regime for recuritment.
- Protect habitat from inappropriate fire regimes.
- Control weeds in potential and known habitat.
- Maintain viable ex-situ seedbank.
- Protect plants from roadside maintenance works whilst generating opportunities for recruitment through active soil disturbance.
- Monitor population dynamics and threats at known sites.
- Develop roadside maintenance protocol for areas of known habitat.
Information sources
- Harden, G., McDonald, B. and Williams, J. (2006) Rainforest trees and shrubs: a field guide to their identification. (Gwen Harden Publishing, Nambucca Heads)
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