Nature conservation

Threatened species

Wild Orange - Brigalow Belt South: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Capparis canescens
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 10 Dec 2020

Distribution of the species within this region

The Wild Orange is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Brigalow Belt South Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Northern Basalts Predicted Within 10 km of the QLD border

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Wild Orange - Brigalow Belt South is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 856 Grey Box - Rough-barked Apple shrub/grass open forest of northern parts of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 527 Mugga Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion and northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 549 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine +/- White Box shrubby open forest mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
      • 1381 Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South bioregion
    • Yetman Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 791 Cypress pine - Bulloak shrubby woodland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 810 Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine - Northern Smooth-barked Apple shrub/grass open forest in the far north of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1380 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - pine - Brown Bloodwood shrub/grass open forest in the north west of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 998 Northern Smooth-barked Apple - pine shrubby open-forest of the northern Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 235 Yelarbon Buloke - Western Grey Box - spinifex low open woodland / hummock grassland on sandy sodic soils