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Threatened species

Native Milkwort - Mulga Lands: 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 Mulga Lands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Urisino Sandplains Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Native Milkwort - Mulga Lands 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