Nature conservation

Threatened species

Rainforest Cassia - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Senna acclinis
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 13 Sep 2021

Distribution of the species within this region

The Rainforest Cassia 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
Chaelundi Known None
Coffs Coast and Escarpment Known None
Comboyne Plateau Known None
Dalmorton Known None
Karuah Manning Known None
Macleay Gorges Known None
Macleay Hastings Known None
Mummel Escarpment Known None
Upper Hunter Predicted None
Upper Manning Known None
Yuraygir Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Rainforest Cassia - 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.

  • Rainforests
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • 3065 Far North Basalt Gully Dry Rainforest
      • 3070 Far North Hinterland Kamala-Coogera Dry Rainforest
      • 3064 Far North Hoop Pine Dry Rainforest
      • 1540 Grey Myrtle - Grey Gum gully dry rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 1539 Grey Myrtle sheltered gully dry rainforest in gullies of the Sydney Basin
      • 4111 Lower North Grey Myrtle Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • 3086 Lower North Hinterland Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • 3089 Lower North Waterhousea Riparian Rainforest
      • 3091 Lower North Waterhousea-Water Gum Rainforest
      • 3101 Northern Hinterland Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
      • 1543 Rusty Fig - Native Quince - Native Olive dry rainforest of the Central Hunter Valley
      • 3111 Sydney Hinterland Grey Myrtle Riparian Forest
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    • Littoral Rainforests
      • 3122 Far North Littoral Rainforest
      • 4114 Lower North Sands Littoral Rainforest
      • 3127 Mid North Headland Brush Box Littoral Rainforest
      • 3131 Myall-Wallis Lakes Littoral Rainforest
      • 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3029 Lower North Wet Gully Palm Rainforest
      • 3032 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Booyong-Corkwood Rainforest
      • 3039 Sydney Coastal Lilly Pilly-Palm Gallery Rainforest
    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 3003 Border Ranges Black Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3121 Broken Head Lowland Rainforest
      • 3011 Far North Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
      • 845 Giant Stinging Tree - Fig dry subtropical rainforest of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3001 Lismore Basalt Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3019 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3100 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Dendrocnide Subtropical Rainforest
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  • Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3139 Border Ranges Brush Box-Tallowwood Wet Forest
      • 3150 Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3153 Illawarra Escarpment Bangalay x Blue Gum Wet Forest
      • 3084 Lower North Brown Myrtle Wet Forest
      • 3157 Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Wet Forest
      • 3158 Lower North Foothills Turpentine-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • 3160 Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
      • 1575 Messmate - Forest Ribbon Gum - New England Blackbutt shrub - grass tall open forest of Barrington Tops and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • 3165 Northern Brush Box Subtropical Wet Forest
      • 3166 Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest
      • 3168 Northern Hinterland Brush Box-Quince Wet Forest
      • 3169 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3172 Northern Ranges Brush Box-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • 3173 Northern Ranges Dunns Gum-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3174 Northern Turpentine-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 1563 Sydney Blue Gum – New England Blackbutt - Whitetop Box moist shrub – grass tall open forest of the lower North Coast
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    • Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 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
      • 1577 New England Blackbutt - Forest Ribbon Gum grassy tall open forest of the Northern Tablelands escarpment