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Threatened species

Gibraltar Range Waratah - profile

Indicative distribution


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Scientific name: Telopea aspera
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Gazetted date: 05 Dec 2025
Profile last updated: 16 Dec 2025

Description

Shrubs with 1–few erect, slender, few-branched stems to 3 m high; axes and especially lower surface of leaves moderately to densely rusty-hairy..

Adult leaves elliptic to obovate-elliptic or narrowly so, 8–28 cm long, 20–65 mm wide, apex usually acute to truncate, with 3–11 teeth extending below centre of either margin, more or less abruptly contracted to petiole, very leathery and harsh to touch, minutely granulate when dried; both surfaces with prominently raised veins.

Conflorescences few, 90–250-flowered; basal flowers opening first; involucral bracts mostly 5–9 cm long, bright red. Body of follicle 8–15 cm long.

Distribution

Endemic to the Gibraltar Range, on the New South Wales Northern Tablelands

Habitat and ecology

  • Dry Sclerophyll Forests with Eucalyptus olida, Leptospermum trinervium, Grevillea acerata, Dampiera stricta, Hibbertia villosa, Hakea laevipes subsp. graniticola, Boronia microphylla, Gleichenia dicarpa, Amperera xiphoclada and Pimelea linifolia. Telopea aspera is commonly encountered amongst granite boulder fields.

Regional distribution and habitat

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Recovery strategies

Information sources

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