Brolga - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Distribution of the species within this region

IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Coffs Coast and Escarpment	Known	None
Macleay Hastings	Known	None
Yuraygir	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

• Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
  • Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
    • 225 Bladder Saltbush low open chenopod shrubland of the Strzelecki dunefields of the arid climate zone
  • Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
    • 195 Bladder Saltbush chenopod shrubland on alluvial plains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
    • 212 Chenopod low open shrubland - ephemeral partly derived forbland saline wetland on occasionally flooded pale clay scalds in the NSW North Western Plains
    • 377 Copperburr low open shrubland on loam - clay flats and playas, western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and northern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 168 Derived Copperburr shrubland of the NSW northern inland alluvial floodplains
    • 163 Dillon Bush (Nitre Bush) shrubland of the semi-arid and arid zones
    • 466 Galvanized Burr derived low shrubland of the Brigalow Belt South and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 158 Old Man Saltbush - mixed chenopod shrubland of the semi-arid hot (persistently dry) and arid climate zones (north-western NSW)
    • 211 Slender Saltbush - samphire - copperburr low open shrubland wetland on irreguarly innundated floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and 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
    • 3573 Northern Lowland Scribbly Gum-Bloodwood Forest
    • 3577 Yuraygir Range Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest

• Forested wetlands
  • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
    • 4045 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
    • 4048 Northern Swamp Oak-Paperbark Forest
  • Coastal Swamp Forests
    • 3984 Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
    • 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
    • 3988 Far North Mesophyll Paperbark Swamp Forest
    • 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
    • 3993 Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
    • 4001 Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
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  • Inland Riverine Forests
    • 356 Blakely's Red Gum x Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall riparian woodland, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • 10 River Red Gum - Black Box woodland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 11 River Red Gum - Lignum very tall open forest or woodland wetland on floodplains of semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 233 River Red Gum - Poplar Box grassy woodland wetland on Quaternary alluvial sandy-loam soils of the Cobar Peneplain
    • 8 River Red Gum - Warrego Grass - Couch Grass riparian tall woodland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 7 River Red Gum - Warrego Grass - herbaceous riparian tall open forest wetland mainly in the Riverina Bioregion
    • 78 River Red Gum riparian tall woodland / open forest wetland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 249 River Red Gum swampy woodland wetland on cowals (lakes) and associated flood channels in central NSW
    • 36 River Red Gum tall to very tall open forest / woodland wetland on rivers on floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 234 River Red Gum woodland wetland of rocky creeks in the ranges of the arid climate zone
    • 362 Weeping Bottlebrush - Rough-barked Apple riparian low open forest / tall shrubland wetland mainly in the Briglaow Belt South Bioregion
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• Freshwater wetlands
  • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
    • 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
    • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
    • 3961 Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
    • 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
    • 3963 Estuarine Reedland
    • 3964 Far North Floodplain Fern-Forb Wetland
    • 3965 Far North Floodplain Forb-Sedge Wetland
    • 3973 Far North Floodplain Paperbark Sedge Wetland
    • 3966 Foredune Swale Marsh
    • 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
    • 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
    • 3969 Northern Sands Machaerina-Eleocharis Sedgeland
    • 3970 Northern Sands Water Couch Wetland
    • 3971 Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
    • 3974 Pambula Dune Swale Red Gum Swamp Woodland
    • 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
    • 3976 Southern Sands Freshwater Lagoon Wetland
    • 3977 Sydney Coastal Headland Lagoon Sedgeland
    • 3972 Sydney Creekflat Wetland
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  • Inland Floodplain Shrublands
    • 375 Budda Pea - Channel Millet ephemeral reedland wetland on floodplains in north-western NSW
    • 24 Canegrass swamp tall grassland wetland of drainage depressions, lakes and pans of the inland plains
    • 115 Eurah shrubland of inland floodplains
    • 161 Golden Goosefoot shrubland wetland in swamps of the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) zones
    • 17 Lignum shrubland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) plains (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 25 Lignum shrubland wetland on floodplains and depressions of the Mulga Lands Bioregion, Channel Country Bioregion in the arid and semi-arid (hot) climate zones
    • 247 Lignum shrubland wetland on regularly flooded alluvial depressions in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 160 Nitre Goosefoot shrubland wetland on clays of the inland floodplains
    • 241 River Coobah swamp wetland on the floodplains of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 240 River Coobah tall shrubland wetland of the floodplains in the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • 271 Spotted Fuchsia shrubland wetland in drainage depressions on inland plains
    • 261 Swamp Paper-bark shrubland wetland ringing depressions in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
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  • Inland Floodplain Swamps
    • 66 Artesian Mound Spring sedgeland wetland mainly of the Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • 181 Common Reed - Bushy Groundsel aquatic tall reedland grassland wetland of inland river systems
    • 182 Cumbungi rushland wetland of shallow semi-permanent water bodies and inland watercourses
    • 226 Cyperus - Typha sedgeland wetland of the arid zone climate zone
    • 360 Gilgai wetland mosaic in the southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • 205 Marsh Club-rush wetland very tall sedgeland of inland watercourses, mainly Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
    • 416 Pilliga tank gilgai wetland sedgeland rushland, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 465 Reedland - tussock grass - segeland fen swampy wetland of impeded creeks in southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 400 Riparian sedgeland rushland wetland of the Pilliga to Goonoo sandstone forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 447 Sedgeland - forbland wetland in depressions on valley flats of the NSW North-western Slopes
    • 361 Sedgeland fen wetland of spring-fed or runoff-fed creeks in the southern Pilliga - Warrumbungle Range region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 53 Shallow freshwater wetland sedgeland in depressions on floodplains on inland alluivial plains and floodplains
    • 12 Shallow marsh wetland of regularly flooded depressions on floodplains mainly in the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 3982 Southwest Floodplain Wetland Meadow
    • 47 Swamp grassland wetland of the Riverine Plain
    • 410 Swamp Paper-bark very tall shrubland wetland on sodic soils in the Pilliga Scrub region
    • 1291 Warrego Grass - Nardoo wet grassland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 204 Water Couch marsh grassland wetland of frequently flooded inland watercourses
    • 364 Wetland on sodic soils in the Yetman-Yelarbon region, mainly Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Montane Lakes
    • 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands

• Grasslands
  • Maritime Grasslands
    • 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
  • Riverine Plain Grasslands
    • 165 Derived corkscrew grass grassland/forbland on sandplains and plains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
    • 45 Plains Grass grassland on alluvial mainly clay soils in the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
  • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
    • 50 Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
    • 43 Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
    • 214 Native Millet - Cup Grass grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 49 Partly derived Windmill Grass - copperburr alluvial plains shrubby grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 52 Queensland Bluegrass +/- Mitchell Grass grassland on cracking clay floodplains and alluvial plains mainly the northern-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 242 Rats Tail Couch sod grassland wetland of inland floodplains
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• Grassy woodlands
  • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
    • 82 Western Grey Box - Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine tall woodland on red loams mainly of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion

• Heathlands
  • Coastal Headland Heaths
    • 3796 Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath

• Miscellaneous ecosystems
  • Highly disturbed areas with no or limited native vegetation
    • 99997 Highly disturbed areas - road verges, table drains, road embankments, ploughed paddocks etc.
  • Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
    • 99996 Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

• Saline wetlands
  • Inland Saline lakes
    • 166 Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
    • 189 Ephemeral forbland wetland of low-saline lake-beds of the arid and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
    • 149 Neverfail Grass - ephemeral herbaceous grassland forbland of interdune claypans mainly in the arid climate zone
    • 62 Samphire saline shrubland/forbland wetland of lake beds and lake margins in the arid and semi-arid (hot) zones
    • 18 Slender Glasswort low shrubland in saline wetland depressions in the semi-arid and arid climate zones, far western NSW
    • 198 Sparse saltbush forbland wetland of the irregularly inundated lakes of the arid and semi-arid (persistently hot) climate zones
    • 63 Spiny Lignum - Slender Glasswort open forbland sailine wetland on lake edges in the semi-arid and arid climate zones
    • 162 Sturts Pigface sparse forbland of saline soils of the arid zone
    • 263 Submerged flora of saline permanent wetland of the arid zone
    • 262 Submerged flora of saline temporary wetland of the arid zone
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  • Mangrove Swamps
    • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
  • Saltmarshes
    • 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
    • 4096 Prickly Couch-Sea Rush Saltmarsh
    • 4097 Samphire Saltmarsh
    • 4102 South Coast Bracelet Honey-myrtle Sea Rush Saltmarsh

• Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
  • Inland Floodplain Woodlands
    • 13 Black Box - Lignum woodland wetland of the inner floodplains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 630 Black Box - Silver Saltbush chenopod open woodland on terrace rises on alluvial plains in the lower Darling River and lower Murray River region of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • 16 Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 15 Black Box open woodland wetland with chenopod understorey mainly on the outer floodplains in south-western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 208 River Red Gum low woodland of rocky gorges and creeks in the Cobar Peneplain
  • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
    • 38 Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
    • 37 Black Box woodland wetland on NSW central and northern floodplains including the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
    • 39 Coolabah - River Coobah - Lignum woodland wetland of frequently flooded floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 231 Coolabah open woodland wetland dunefield depressions of the arid zone
    • 40 Coolabah open woodland wetland with chenopod/grassy ground cover on grey and brown clay floodplains
    • 230 Coolabah woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses in arid zone, mainly in the Channel Country Bioregion
    • 87 Poplar Box - Coolabah floodplain woodland on light clay soil mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 207 Poplar Box grassy low woodland of drainage lines and depressions of the semi-arid (hot) and arid zone climate zones
    • 41 River Red Gum open woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses mainly of the arid climate zone
    • 200 River Red Gum woodland wetland of lake fringes in the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
    • 67 Yapunyah woodland wetland of Cuttaburra-Paroo River system, Mulga Lands Bioregion
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  • Riverine Plain Woodlands
    • 27 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 26 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion

• Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
  • Western Peneplain Woodlands
    • 98 Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine - Wilga - Ironwood shrubby woodland on red sandy-loam soils in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion