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Threatened species

Native Milkwort - Brigalow Belt South: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Polygala linariifolia
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 01 Aug 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Native Milkwort 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
Northern Basalts Known None
Northern Outwash Known None
Pilliga Known None
Pilliga Outwash Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Native Milkwort - 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.

  • Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
    • Gibber Transition Shrublands
      • 137 Whitewood - Western Rosewood low woodland of the NSW north western plains
    • Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
      • 199 Hooked Needlewood - Needlewood - Mulga - Turpentine Bush open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid plains
      • 220 Purple Wood wattle shrubland of the arid zone sandplains
      • 119 Sandplain Mulga tall shrubland - open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid climate zones
      • 69 White Cypress Pine - Mulga shrubland on plains and sandplains in the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) climate zones.
    • Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
      • 127 Bastard Mulga tall open shrubland of the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
      • 130 Horse Mulga - Umbrella Mulga shrubland on ranges in the arid and semi-arid climate zones
      • 120 Mulga shrubland on stony rises in the arid and semi-arid climate zones, mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
      • 68 White Cypress Pine - Mulga low open woodland on the stony ranges of the arid zone (far north western NSW).
  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3421 Clarence Sandstone Pink Bloodwood Grassy Forest
      • 3422 Clarence Sandstone Rises Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3424 Drake Hills Spotted Gum Forest
      • 3425 Far North Hinterland Swamp Turpentine-Apple Forest
      • 3427 Northern Hinterland Hills Bloodwood-Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3428 Northern Lowland Red Gum-Swamp Turpentine Grassy Forest
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    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 965 Narrow-leaved Peppermint - Mountain Ribbon Gum grassy open forest of the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 970 Narrow-leaved Peppermint - Wattle-leaved Peppermint shrubby open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3456 Clarence Gorges Grey Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 983 New England Blackbutt - stringybark grassy forest the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • 3463 Northern Gorges Granite Stringybark-Apple Grassy Forest
      • 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3466 Northern Gorges Red Gum-Stringybark Forest
    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 432 Dwyer's Red Gum - Dirty (Baradine) Gum - cypress pine shrubby woodland of the Narrabri region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 453 Granite gorge Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Oleander Wattle low open woodland in the Warialda region
      • 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
      • 3514 Nandewar Hills Apple-White Box Shrub-Grass Woodland
      • 394 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress pine woodland on slopes and flats in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga Scrub regions
      • 1387 Narrow-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland of the Brigalow Belt South bioregion
      • 4148 Northwest Apple-White Pine Riparian Grassy Forest
      • 3516 Northwest Black Pine-Ironbark Forest
      • 3518 Northwest Pine-Ironbark Grassy Woodland
      • 4149 Northwest Red Gum-Apple-White Pine Grassy Woodland
      • 4150 Northwest White Box-White Pine Forest
      • 3523 Northwest White Pine-Box Woodland
      • 4151 Northwest White Pine-Silver-leaved Ironbark Forest
      • 549 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine +/- White Box shrubby open forest mainly in the northern Nandewar 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
      • 1165 Silvertop Stringybark - Orange Gum shrubby open forest of the central parts of the 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
      • 3511 Western New England White Pine-Tumbledown Gum Woodland
      • 1306 White Box - Red Stringybark shrubby woodlands on basalt slopes of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 435 White Box - White Cypress Pine shrub grass hills woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1308 White Box - White Cypress Pine shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and 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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    • Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 702 Blakely's Red Gum riparian woodland of the Pilliga Outwash, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 411 Buloke - White Cypress Pine woodland on outwash plains in the Pilliga Scrub and Narrabri regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 148 Dirty Gum - Buloke - White Cypress Pine - ironbark shrubby woodland on deep sandy soils in the Liverpool Plains region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 88 Pilliga Box - White Cypress Pine - Buloke shrubby woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 397 Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine shrub grass tall woodland of the Pilliga - Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1090 Red Ironbark - Brown Bloodwood shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1384 White Cypress Pine - Bulloak - ironbark woodland of the Pilliga area of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3574 Northern Lowland Sandstones Dry Open Forest
    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 502 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on granites of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 503 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum heath shrubland or woodland on granite outcrops of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 504 Black Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple - stringybark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 674 Black Cypress Pine - Tumbledown Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark open forest of northern parts of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 675 Black Cypress Pine - Tumbledown Red Gum - Caley's Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar 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
      • 512 Caleys Ironbark - Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest on acid volcanics of the northern 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
      • 3701 Northwest New England Creekflat Blakelys Red Gum Forest
      • 3703 Northwest New England Felsic Ironbark-Red Gum Gully Forest
      • 3706 Northwest New England Laterite McKies Stringybark Forest
      • 3704 Northwest New England Stringybark-Pine Exposed Forest
      • 3716 Northwest New England Tumbledown Gum-Ironbark Exposed Forest
      • 537 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - Red Stringybark open forest of the southern Nandewar Bioregion and 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
      • 1116 Rough-barked Apple - Silvertop Stringybark - Red Stringybark grassy open forest of south 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
      • 4124 Torrington Granite Shrub Forest
      • 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
      • 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
      • 3722 Western New England Box-Tumbledown Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3724 Western New England Caleys Ironbark-Tumbledown Gum Forest
      • 3698 Western New England Granite Orange Gum Gully Woodland
      • 3726 Western New England Granite Pine-Stringybark-Gum Forest
      • 3710 Western New England Hills Orange Gum-Ironbark Forest
      • 3723 Western New England Panic-Wiregrass Grassland
      • 3855 Western New England Rocky Granite Low Woodland
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 671 Black Cypress Pine - Acacia - Red Ash shrubby woodland of the far northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
      • 676 Black Cypress Pine shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 713 Blue-leaved Ironbark heathy woodland of the southern part of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 746 Brown Bloodwood - cypress - ironbark heathy woodland in the Pilliga region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 409 Dirty (Baradine) Gum - White Bloodwood - White Cypress Pine - Motherumbah shrubby woodland on sandy soils in the Pilliga Scrub and surrounding region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 408 Dirty Gum (Baradine Gum) - Black Cypress Pine - White Bloodwood shrubby woodland on of the Pilliga forests and surrounding region
      • 179 Green Mallee mallee-forest / woodland on stony rises or hills in the Narrabri to Yetman region, 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
      • 402 Mugga Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - gum tall woodland on flats in the Pilliga forests and surrounding regions, Brigalow Belt South 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
      • 398 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - Buloke tall open forest on lower slopes and flats in the Pilliga Scrub and surrounding forests in the central north Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1381 Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South bioregion
      • 3761 Northwest Felsic Rocky Gum Woodland
      • 399 Red gum - Rough-barked Apple +/- tea tree sandy creek woodland (wetland) in the Pilliga - Goonoo sandstone forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 443 Red Ironbark - sheoak shrubby woodland of the Yetman-Warialda region, northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 401 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine woodland on sandy flats, mainly in the Pilliga Scrub region
      • 449 Stringybark She Oak - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - sticky mintbush low woodland in the northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1277 Tumbledown Gum - Blakely's Red Gum - pine shrubby forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 431 White Bloodwood - Dirty Gum - cypress pine shrubby low woodland on sandy soils in the Narrabri to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 406 White Bloodwood - Motherumbah - Red Ironbark shrubby sandstone hill woodland / open forest mainly in east Pilliga forests
      • 405 White Bloodwood - Red Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby sandstone woodland of the Pilliga Scrub and surrounding regions
      • 1307 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 396 White Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Bloodwood - red gum shrub grass woodland of the Pilliga - Coonabarabran region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1313 White Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrub/grass open forest of the western Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1314 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1316 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
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    • Yetman Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 370 Black Cypress Pine - Dirty Gum - bloodwood - She Oak open forest on siliceous hills in the northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 672 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Dirty Gum grassy open forest of north western Nandewar Bioregion
      • 369 Blakely's Red Gum - Smooth-barked Apple shrub swamp woodland on siliceous white sands in the Yetman region
      • 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
      • 367 Forest Red Gum x Blakely's Red Gum - box woodland of the Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 374 Grey Box - cypress pine - red gum woodland on deep sandy loam soil in northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1380 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - pine - Brown Bloodwood shrub/grass open forest in the north west of the Nandewar 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
      • 448 Smooth-barked Apple - Black Cypress Pine - Red Stringybark sandstone open forest in the Warialda to Arakoola region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 368 Smooth-barked Apple - cypress pine - Long-fruited Bloodwood - Dirty Gum shrubby open forest / woodland on sandstone hills in the Warialda to Bonshaw region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar
      • 422 Smooth-barked Apple - cypress pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Bloodwood tall heathy woodland of the Pilliga forests to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 450 Smooth-barked Apple - White Cypress Pine grass shrub woodland on lower slopes and sandy flats, north-western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 363 Swamp Paper-bark sodic scald wetland / shrubland of the Yetman - Yalarbon region Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 235 Yelarbon Buloke - Western Grey Box - spinifex low open woodland / hummock grassland on sandy sodic soils
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  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 3329 Northern Hinterland Valleys Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 704 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest or 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
      • 853 Grey Box - Narrow-leaved Ironbark open forest of the Ashford area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 3359 New England Hills Stringybark-Box Woodland
      • 533 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on granitic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1171 Silvertop Stringybark grass/herb forest of the Brigalow Belt South and Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3363 Western New England Blakelys Red Gum-Box Grassy Forest
      • 3357 Western New England Flats Apple-Box Grassy Forest
      • 1332 Yellow Box - Grey Box - Red Gum woodland of the central eastern parts of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 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
    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 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
      • 847 Grey Box - Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3393 Northwest Basalt Box Plains Grass Woodland
      • 3394 Northwest Basalt Grassland-Woodland Complex
      • 3395 Northwest Elevated White Box Woodland
      • 3398 Northwest Slopes Box-Apple Woodland
      • 3396 Northwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Woodland
      • 4147 Northwest White Box Sparse Grassy Woodland
      • 3397 Northwest Yellow Box Grassy Woodland
      • 544 Rough-barked Apple - White Cypress Pine - Blakely's Red Gum riparian open forest / woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1383 White Box grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1315 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
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  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Desert Woodlands
      • 100 Desert Bloodwood - Mulga low woodland of the semi-arid plains
    • North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
      • 428 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - Curracabah - White Box tall woodland on sand in the Narrabri - Warialda region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 71 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - River Red Gum - bloodwood tall woodland on sandy loam alluvial and eolian soils in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
      • 227 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple woodland on alluvial terraces in central-north NSW
    • Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
      • 59 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Leopardwood low open woodland on sandplain and sandy flats in semi arid (hot) and arid climate zones
    • Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
      • 117 Buck Spinifex shrubby hummock grassland / Coolabah Apple - Silver-leaved Ironbark open woodland on deep sand in the Enngonia to Cumborah regions, north western NSW
      • 192 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Poplar Box +/- Ironwood shrub - grass woodland on rises in the north-western plains of NSW