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Threatened species

Bluegrass - Brigalow Belt South: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Dichanthium setosum
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Vulnerable
Last updated: 20 Dec 2023

Distribution of the species within this region

The Bluegrass 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
Liverpool Plains Known None
Liverpool Range Known None
Northern Basalts Known None
Northern Outwash Known None
Pilliga Known None
Pilliga Outwash Predicted None
Talbragar Valley Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Bluegrass - 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)
    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3427 Northern Hinterland Hills Bloodwood-Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 1608 Grey Box - Grey Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum grassy open forest of the central Hunter
    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 1394 Rough-barked Apple - Silvertop Stringybark - Red Stringybark grassy open forest of the upper Hunter Valley, south western New England Tableland Bioregion and southern NSW North Coast Bioregion
    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 983 New England Blackbutt - stringybark grassy forest the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • 3464 Northern Gorges Grey Gum-Tallowwood Grassy Forest
      • 3466 Northern Gorges Red Gum-Stringybark Forest
    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 506 Black Cypress Pine - White Box - Tumbledown Gum shrubby open forest / woodland mainly in the Mt Kaputar region, Nandewar Bioregion
      • 432 Dwyer's Red Gum - Dirty (Baradine) Gum - cypress pine shrubby woodland of the Narrabri region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 517 Grey Box shrubby 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
      • 529 Mugga Ironbark - stringybark shrubby open forest of the far southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 394 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress pine woodland on slopes and flats in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga Scrub regions
      • 4148 Northwest Apple-White Pine Riparian Grassy Forest
      • 3518 Northwest Pine-Ironbark Grassy Woodland
      • 543 Rough-barked Apple - White Box - Rusty Fig shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of Brigalow Belt South and Nandewar Bioregions
      • 381 Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grass/shrub footslope open forest, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 228 Semi-mesic woodland on basalt hills of the dry subtropical climate zone, north western slopes of NSW
      • 549 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine +/- White Box shrubby open forest mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 598 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Box - White Cypress Pine viney scrub woodland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 413 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - box dry shrub grass woodland of the Pilliga Scrub - Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 595 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - tea tree shrubby woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 594 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine shrubby open forest of Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 562 Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 596 Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 382 Warrumbungle mountains Nandewar Box - Yellow Box shrub grass open forest, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 412 White Box - Black Cypress Pine shrubby hill woodland in the east Pilliga - Mendooran - Gulgong regions, mainly Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 597 White Box - cypress pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrub grass open forest / woodland of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1306 White Box - Red Stringybark shrubby woodlands on basalt slopes of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 563 White Box - Silvertop Stringybark +/- White Cypress Pine grass shrub open forest of the southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 587 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 435 White Box - White Cypress Pine shrub grass hills woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 588 White Box - White Cypress Pine shrubby hills open forest mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 591 White Box shrubby open forest on hills mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 393 White Box shrubby woodland of the western Liverpool Range, Warrumbungle Range and south-west Pilliga forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 429 White Cypress Pine - Poplar Box - Silver-leaved Ironbark viney shrub woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 564 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Caley's Ironbark open forest of the central Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 418 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Wilga shrub grass woodland of the Narrabri-Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1317 White Cypress Pine - White Box - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 481 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark +/- Grey Gum sandstone riparian grass fern open forest on in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Upper Hunter region
    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 504 Black Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple - stringybark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 505 Black Cypress Pine - Tumbledown Red Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Stringybark She Oak open forest on acid volcanics of the western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 508 Blakely's Red Gum - Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 523 McKies Stringybark - Western New England Blackbutt - Rough-barked Apple open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 528 Mugga Ironbark - Blakely's Red Gum open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 566 Mugga Ironbark open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 4142 New England Hills Red Gum-Stringybark Shrub Forest
      • 4125 New England Youmans Stringybark-Box Forest
      • 536 Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest on acid volcanics of the north western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 537 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - Red Stringybark open forest of the southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 551 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - stringybark - Tenterfield Woollybutt shrubby open forest of the Horton River area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 556 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - stringybark shrubby open forest of the northern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 538 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely’s Red Gum open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1382 Rough-barked Apple - Red Stringybark shrubby open forest of the western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 552 Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple - Eucalyptus quinniorum shrubby open forest of southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 578 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Caleys Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 579 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest on rhyolite geology of the Nandewar Bioregion and north west New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 580 Tumbledown Red Gum - Caleys Ironbark shrubby open forest on Rock of Gibraltar in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 584 Western New England Blackbutt - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Stringybark She Oak open forest of the western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 585 Western New England Blackbutt - Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby woodland in the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 557 Western New England Blackbutt - Round-leaved Gum - Stringybark shrubby open forest in the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 558 Western New England Blackbutt - stringybark open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3723 Western New England Panic-Wiregrass Grassland
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 403 Dapper Mugga Ironbark - Western Grey Box - Blakely's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine grass shrub hill woodland (southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion)
      • 430 Motherumbah - Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine tall shrubland of the Narrabri to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 576 Motherumbah - hill red gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby low woodland mainly in the southern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 482 Mugga Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrub/grass open forest of the upper Hunter Valley, mainly Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 531 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - Motherumbah woodland in the Kaputar area in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 592 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - cypress pine - White Box shrubby open forestin the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 443 Red Ironbark - sheoak shrubby woodland of the Yetman-Warialda region, northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 449 Stringybark She Oak - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - sticky mintbush low woodland in the northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 581 Tumbledown Red Gum - Dwyer's Red Gum - Wallaby Bush shrubby woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 577 Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Blakely's Red Gum shrubby forest of northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1307 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1313 White Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrub/grass open forest of the western Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1316 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
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    • Yetman Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 367 Forest Red Gum x Blakely's Red Gum - box woodland of the Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 373 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine +/- Buloke tall open forest or woodland of the Warialda to Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 998 Northern Smooth-barked Apple - pine shrubby open-forest of the northern Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 371 Silver-leaved Ironbark - cypress pine - Stringybark She Oak shrubby woodland in the Yetman - Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Grasslands
    • Riverine Plain Grasslands
      • 45 Plains Grass grassland on alluvial mainly clay soils in the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
      • 43 Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
      • 52 Queensland Bluegrass +/- Mitchell Grass grassland on cracking clay floodplains and alluvial plains mainly the northern-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Western Slopes Grasslands
      • 710 Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Common Woodruff clay plain grassland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 796 Derived grassland of the NSW South Western Slopes
      • 484 Derived tall spear grass grassland on mainly basalt hills of the Liverpool Plains, Liverpool Range and in the upper Hunter Valley (Merriwa district), south-eastern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 250 Derived tussock grassland of the central western plains and lower slopes of NSW
      • 619 Derived Wire Grass grassland of the NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 102 Liverpool Plains grassland mainly on basaltic black earth soils, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1076 Plains Grass - Bluegrass grassland of the Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1179 Slender Bamboo Grass - Spiny Saltbush grassland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 460 Tumbledown Gum - ironbark - Porcupine Grass hummock grassland / low woodland of the Mount Kaputar to Bingara region, Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1324 Windmill Grass - Bluegrass derived grassland of the Moree plains of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 1691 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Box grassy woodland of the central and upper Hunter
      • 623 Narrow-leaved Ironbark +/- Grey Box grassy woodland of the upper Hunter Valley, mainly Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 618 White Box x Grey Box - red gum - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland on rich soils on hills in the upper Hunter Valley
    • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
      • 628 Carbeen +/- Coolabah grassy woodland on floodplain clay loam soil on north-western NSW floodplains, mainly Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
      • 56 Poplar Box - Belah woodland on clay-loam soils on alluvial plains of north-central NSW
      • 101 Poplar Box - Yellow Box - Western Grey Box grassy woodland on cracking clay soils mainly in the Liverpool Plains, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 81 Western Grey Box - cypress pine shrub grass shrub tall woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 3352 Armidale Quartz Hills Stringybark Forest
      • 501 Bendemeer White Gum - Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple +/- Moonbi Apple Box grassy open forest of the southern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 704 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest or woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 510 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 734 Broad-leaved Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodlands of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 567 Broad-leaved Stringybark - Yellow Box shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3353 Guyra Silvertop Stringybark Moist Forest
      • 3354 Liverpool Range Box-Silvertop Stringybark Forest
      • 3359 New England Hills Stringybark-Box Woodland
      • 539 Rough-barked Apple - Cabbage Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1118 Rough-barked Apple riparian forb/grass open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1171 Silvertop Stringybark grass/herb forest of the Brigalow Belt South and Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1332 Yellow Box - Grey Box - Red Gum woodland of the central eastern parts of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 496 Yellow Box - White Box - Silvertop Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum grass shrub woodland mainly on the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3339 Guyra Basalt Snow Gum Woodland
      • 921 Manna Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grassy woodland/open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • 534 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on sedimentary or basaltic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3344 New England Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
      • 1099 Ribbon Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grassy woodland/open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
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    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 383 Apple Box - Rough-barked Apple terrace flats woodland of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 509 Blakely's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple grassy open forest of drainage lines of the northern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 599 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on flats and hills in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 711 Bluegrass - Spear Grass - Redleg Grass derived grasslands of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 441 Carbeen - White Box +/- Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy tall woodland on basalt hills, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 451 Derived Spear Grass - Slender Bamboo Grass mixed tussock grassland mainly of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 395 Derived speargrass - wallaby grass - wire grass mixed forb grassland mainly in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga - Coolah region
      • 201 Fuzzy Box Woodland on alluvial brown loam soils mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 202 Fuzzy Box woodland on colluvium and alluvial flats in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion (including Pilliga) and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 847 Grey Box - Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 516 Grey Box grassy woodland or open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 483 Grey Box x White Box grassy open woodland on basalt hills in the Merriwa region, upper Hunter Valley
      • 326 Long-leaved Box - Red Box grass-shrub open forest on hillslopes in the Mudgee Region, NSW central western slopes
      • 3394 Northwest Basalt Grassland-Woodland Complex
      • 3395 Northwest Elevated White Box Woodland
      • 3398 Northwest Slopes Box-Apple Woodland
      • 4147 Northwest White Box Sparse Grassy Woodland
      • 511 Queensland Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Rats Tail Grass - spear grass - panic grass derived grassland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 426 Red Box - White Box +/- Red Stringybark hill woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 464 Red Stringybark - Kurrajong - mixed eucalypt grassy open forest of the Coonabarabran - Gulgong region in the Brigalow Belt South and NSW SWS Bioregion
      • 281 Rough-Barked Apple - red gum - Yellow Box woodland on alluvial clay to loam soils on valley flats in the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 593 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine grassy woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 444 Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy tall woodland on clay-loam soils on plains in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 461 Tumbledown Gum woodland on hills in the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 589 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland on mainly clay loam soils on hills mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 434 White Box grass shrub hill woodland on clay to loam soils on volcanic and sedimentary hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1383 White Box grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 590 White Box grassy woodland on the Inverell basalts mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 433 White Box grassy woodland to open woodland on basalt flats and rises in the Liverpool Plains sub-region, BBS Bioregion
      • 1315 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1329 Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1693 Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the upper Hunter and Liverpool Plains
      • 421 Yellow Box - White Cypress Pine alluvial terrace flats grassy woodland in the Pilliga forests and surrounds, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1695 Yellow Box grassy woodland on basalt soils of the upper Hunter
      • 437 Yellow Box grassy woodland on lower hillslopes and valley flats in the southern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
    • Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
      • 35 Brigalow - Belah open forest / woodland on alluvial often gilgaied clay from Pilliga Scrub to Goondiwindi, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 629 Brigalow - Bladder Saltbush open woodland to tall open shrubland in the Come-By-Chance region, Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
      • 55 Belah woodland on alluvial plains and low rises in the central NSW wheatbelt to Pilliga and Liverpool Plains regions.
    • Riverine Plain Woodlands
      • 1766 Weeping Myall - Plains Grass grassy woodlands of the Brigalow Belt South
      • 27 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion