Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Pomaderris bodalla
Gazetted date:
18 Nov 2005
Profile last updated:
11 Feb 2019
Description
Bodalla Pomaderris is a shrub between 2 and 4 metres high. The young stems have spreading rusty simple hairs and dense greyish stellate hairs. The leaves are elliptic, broad-elliptic, broad-obovate to + rhombic, mostly 2-3 cm long and 12-15 mm wide. The upper leaf surface is dark green and glabrous and the lower surface has sparse spreading rusty hairs above short greyish stellate hairs. The flowers are cream and display in loose, irregular clusters.
Distribution
Bodalla Pomaderris is endemic to NSW and is currently known to occur on the south coast between Bodalla and Merimbula, and in the upper Hunter Valley near Muswellbrook. There are ten populations of Bodalla Pomaderris currently known, and a further two imprecisely described locations from which the species was collected approximately 40 years ago. The majority of populations are small with seven of the populations having estimates of less than a hundred plants each. All populations have locally restricted distributions. The largest known population is in Wollemi National Park and is unlikely to include more than one thousand plants. Bodalla Pomaderris is in the conservation reserves of Kooraban National Park on the south coast, and in Wollemi National Park and Wingen Maid Nature Reserve in the north of its range. Other populations on the south coast are located in State Forests and on private land. More research is required to locate new populations.
Habitat and ecology
- On the south coast Pomaderris bodalla occurs in moist open forest along sheltered gullies or along stream banks. In the upper Hunter valley, it occurs in open forest or woodland on open slopes.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Cool burns kill juvenile plants and not hot enough to stimulate seed germination.
- Two populations are at immediate risk from road maintenance activities and residential development.
- Two populations on private land are accessible to livestock and may be threatened by trampling, grazing or small-scale clearing activities.
- All populations may be threatened if fires recur at high frequencies in their habitat, which may result in death of standing plants and depletion of seed banks.
- Disturbance associated with logging operations on State Forest or private land may also be a threat to some populations of the species.
- Several populations of P. bodalla are small and therefore subject to declines or extinction related to stochastic events.
- Insufficient understanding of distribution.
- Insufficient understanding of threats.
Recovery strategies
A Saving Our Species conservation project is currently being developed for this species and will be available soon. For information on how you can contribute to this species' recovery, see the Activities to assist this species section below.
Activities to assist this species
- Consider installing fencing, bollards and/or roads side markers to prevent road maintenance damage.
- Consider excluding stock to reduce grazing and trampling pressures.
- Ensure that inappropriate fire regimes are not implemented.
- Mark populations onto forestry maps and ensure that forest operations do not threaten the population.
Information sources
- Harden, G.J. and Murray, L.J. (eds) (2000) Supplement to Flora of New South Wales. Vol. 1. UNSW Press, Kensington, NSW.
- NSW Scientific Committee (2005) Pomaderris bodalla (a shrub) - vulnerable species determination - final. DEC (NSW), Sydney.
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