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Threatened species

Grey-headed Flying-fox - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Pteropus poliocephalus
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerableexternal link
Commonwealth status: Vulnerableexternal link
Last updated: 09 Oct 2020

Distribution of the species within this region

The Grey-headed Flying-fox is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the NSW North Coast Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Barrington Known None
Carrai Plateau Predicted None
Cataract Known None
Chaelundi Known None
Coffs Coast and Escarpment Known None
Comboyne Plateau Known None
Dalmorton Known None
Ellerston Known None
Guy Fawkes Predicted None
Karuah Manning Known None
Macleay Gorges Known None
Macleay Hastings Known None
Mummel Escarpment Known None
Rocky River Gorge Predicted None
Tomalla Known None
Upper Hunter Known None
Upper Manning Known None
Washpool Known None
Yuraygir Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Grey-headed Flying-fox - NSW North Coast 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)
    • Central Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3472 Bungonia Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3473 Bungonia Slates Shrubby Open Forest
      • 3474 Burragorang Escarpment Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
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    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3417 Baryulgil Serpentinite Woodland
      • 3418 Clarence Foothills Bloodwood-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 4118 Clarence Gorges Silver-leaved Ironbark Forest
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    • Cumberland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3448 Castlereagh Ironbark Forest
    • Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3431 Central Hunter Ironbark Grassy Woodland
      • 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3433 Hunter Coast Foothills Spotted Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
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    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 495 Brittle Gum - Silvertop Stringybark grassy open forest of the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 568 Broad-leaved Stringybark shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3500 Cathedral Rock Granite Peppermint-Gum Forest
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    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3454 Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3455 Clarence Gorges Granite Grassy Forest
      • 3456 Clarence Gorges Grey Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
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    • 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
      • 453 Granite gorge Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Oleander Wattle low open woodland in the Warialda region
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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
      • 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
    • Southern Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3449 Far South Escarpment Stringybark-Gum Forest
      • 3450 Far South Hinterland Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3451 Far South Sheltered Monkey Gum Forest
      • 3452 Southeast Hinterland Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3453 Southeast Scarp Maidens Gum Forest
    • Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3533 Avisford Sandstone Moist Sheltered Forest
      • 3510 Capertee Slopes Stringybark-Box Forest
      • 3534 Central West Stony Hills Stringybark-Box Forest
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3545 Coastal Sands Bloodwood Low Forest
      • 3546 Coastal Sands Littoral Scrub-Forest
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    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3557 Banyabba Creekflat Orange Gum-Paperbark Forest
      • 3559 Chambigne Mahogany-Brown Bloodwood Forest
      • 3560 Chambigne Square-fruited Ironbark-Stringybark Forest
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    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3672 Carrai-Werrikimbe Blackbutt Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3673 Chaelundi-Mann River Granite Scrub Woodland
      • 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 609 Black Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on Mole Granite of the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 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
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    • South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3638 South Coast Sands Bangalay Forest
      • 3639 South Coast Sands Bangalay Littoral Forest
      • 3640 South Coast Sands Littoral Scrub
      • 3641 Wonboyn Sand Forest
    • South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3181 Bega Wet Shrub Forest
      • 3182 Far South Coastal Apple Gully Forest
      • 3184 Far South Lowland Creekflat Forest
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    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3642 Brogo Scarp Mallee Scrub
      • 3643 Bungonia Tableland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
      • 3646 Far South Coastal Ranges Silvertop Ash Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 344 Argyle Apple - Acacia mearnsii valley open forest of the Yass - Rye Park region of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and adjoining NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 3730 Bondo Slopes Dry Stringybark Forest
      • 351 Brittle Gum - Broad-leaved Peppermint - Red Stringybark open forest in the north-western part (Yass to Orange) of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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    • Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3578 Blue Mountains Low Heathy Woodland
      • 3579 Blue Mountains Scribbly Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
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    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3599 Blue Mountains Peppermint Shrub Forest
      • 3600 Burragorang Escarpment Heath
      • 3601 Burragorang Footslopes Scribbly Gum Forest
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    • Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3685 Budawang Sandstone Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 3687 Newnes Plateau Peppermint-Ash Tall Forest
      • 3688 Newnes Plateau Silvertop Ash Woodland
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    • Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3628 Castlereagh Shrubby Swamp Woodland
      • 4122 Cockle Creek Sandflat Scribbly Gum Forest
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3750 Binnaway Sandstone Ironbark-Pine Shrubby Woodland
      • 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
      • 417 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - red gum +/- White Bloodwood shrubby open forest on hills of the southern Pilliga, Coonabarabran and Garawilla regions, Brigalow Belt South 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
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  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4016 Clarence Floodplain Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4019 Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
      • 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3983 Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 3984 Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
      • 3985 Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4061 Bega-Towamba Riparian Scrub
      • 4062 Capertee Riparian Paperbark Thicket
      • 4063 Central and Southern Tableland River Oak 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
      • 4089 Namoi-Upper Hunter River Red Gum Forest
      • 5 River Red Gum herbaceous-grassy very tall open forest wetland on inner floodplains in the lower slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and the eastern Riverina 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
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    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3894 Blue Mountains Creekline Shrub Swamp
      • 3929 Blue Mountains Swamp Heath
      • 3895 Budawang Damp Swamp Heath
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    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3927 Barrington Subalpine Swamp Meadow
      • 3931 Budawang Escarpment Damp Coral Fern Forest
      • 3940 Liverpool Range Swampy Tea-tree Shrubland
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  • Grasslands
    • Maritime Grasslands
      • 3407 Central Headland Grassland
      • 3409 Southern Headland Grassland
      • 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
    • Temperate Montane Grasslands
      • 3416 Southern Tableland Valley Flats Damp Grassland
      • 1288 Wallaby Grass - Kangaroo Grass - Rush - Blown Grass Wet Tussock Grassland Moist Grasslands of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Western Slopes Grasslands
      • 710 Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Common Woodruff clay plain grassland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 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
      • 619 Derived Wire Grass grassland of the NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
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  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 3313 Araluen Scarp Grassy Forest
      • 1692 Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
      • 3315 Central Hunter Ironbark-Spotted Gum Forest
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    • 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
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    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 3351 Armidale Creekflat Snow Gum Woodland-Scrub
      • 3352 Armidale Quartz Hills Stringybark Forest
      • 498 Black Sallee plateau low woodland in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 703 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 3365 Bondo Slopes Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
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    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3379 Barrington-Point Lookout Montane Grassy Forest
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3338 Goulburn Tableland Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
      • 3339 Guyra Basalt Snow Gum Woodland
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    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 283 Apple Box - Blakely's Red Gum moist valley and footslopes grass-forb open forest of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 282 Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes 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
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  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3787 Byron Graminoid Clay Heath
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
      • 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
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    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 3827 Eastern New England Leucogranite Mallee Scrub
      • 520 Heathy outcrop shrublands on volcanic sediments of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 884 Heathy shrubland on granitic outcrops of the central and western New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • South Coast Heaths
      • 3815 Eurobodalla Headland Heath
      • 3817 Mount Nadgee Heath
    • Southern Montane Heaths
      • 4163 Mount Gibraltar Melaleuca Heath
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 3807 Northern Sydney Heath-Mallee
      • 3808 Northern Sydney Sandstone Rockplate Shrubland
      • 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
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    • Sydney Montane Heaths
      • 636 Allocasuarina nana heathland at Genowlan Point, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 3857 Blue Mountains Rocky Mallee Heath
      • 3859 Genowlan Point Heath
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    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3799 Agnes Banks Woodland
      • 3800 Bouddi Headland Wallum Heath
      • 3801 Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
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  • Rainforests
    • Cool Temperate Rainforests
      • 3048 Border Ranges Antarctic Beech Rainforest
      • 3054 Southeast Cool Temperate Rainforest
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • 627 Coobah - Rusty Fig low woodland on limestone outcrops in the Tamworth - Attunga region of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 3065 Far North Basalt Gully Dry Rainforest
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    • Littoral Rainforests
      • 3122 Far North Littoral Rainforest
      • 3123 Far North Sands Coastal Cypress Littoral Rainforest
      • 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
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    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3025 Central Coast Gallery Rainforest
      • 3027 Gibraltar Range Tea-tree-Phebalium Shrubland
      • 3028 Illawarra Escarpment Warm Temperate Rainforest
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    • Southern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3045 South Coast Temperate Gully Rainforest
      • 3046 Southeast Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 3047 Sydney Montane Basalt Rainforest
    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 3003 Border Ranges Black Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3121 Broken Head Lowland Rainforest
      • 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
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    • Western Vine Thickets
      • 378 Belah - Wilga +/- White Box dry viney scrub woodland the NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 445 Brigalow viney scrub open forest on loamy soils in low hill landscapes in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 442 Carbeen tall open woodland - Mock Olive tall closed vine thicket on basalt hills in the Northern Basalt sub-region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Saline wetlands
    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4140 Far North Mangrove Forest
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
      • 4097 Samphire Saltmarsh
      • 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh
  • 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
    • Inland Floodplain Woodlands
      • 454 River Red Gum grassy chenopod open tall woodland (wetland) on floodplain clay soil of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 83 Yellow Box woodland on sandy loam soils on alluvial plains mainly in the upper Darling Riverine Plain 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
      • 4104 Central Hunter Weeping Myall Forest
  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • 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
      • 376 Mixed scrub low open woodland on sand rises and dunes on floodplains in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 227 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple woodland on alluvial terraces in central-north NSW
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Montane Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3310 Gulaga Silvertop Ash Moist Forest
      • 3311 Southeast Escarpment Ash Forest
    • Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3230 Central Coast Escarpment Moist Forest
      • 3232 Far North Coastal Hills Blackbutt-Ironbark Forest
      • 3069 Far North Hinterland Grey Box-Grey Gum Wet Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3277 Carrai Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3146 Dorrigo Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3278 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
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    • Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3266 Nattai-Morton Sandstone Peppermint Gully Forest
      • 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
      • 3268 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine-Ironbark Moist Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3294 Central Tableland Peppermint-Gum Montane Forest
      • 3303 Central Tableland Ribbon Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3295 Crookwell-Taralga Basalt Grassy Forest
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  • Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3136 Blue Gum High Forest
      • 3137 Blue Mountains Enriched Blue Gum Moist Forest
      • 3140 Blue Mountains Sandstone Turpentine Moist Forest
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    • Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3199 Far North New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
      • 931 Messmate - Mountain Gum tall moist forest of the far southern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1574 Messmate grassy tall open forest on Barrington and Northern Tablelands escarpment
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    • Southern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3211 Central Tableland Montane Wet Forest
      • 3212 Far South Escarpment Damp Flats Forest
      • 3213 Illawarra Southern Escarpment Wet Forest
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