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Leafless Tongue Orchid - Other State: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Cryptostylis hunteriana

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Vulnerable

Last updated: 13 Oct 2021

Distribution of the species within this region

The Leafless Tongue Orchid is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Other State Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Jervis Bay Territory	Predicted	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Leafless Tongue Orchid - Other State 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)
- Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3437 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Dry Forest
  - 3434 Hunter Coast White Mahogany Low Forest

Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
  - 3545 Coastal Sands Bloodwood Low Forest
- Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3675 Far North Peaks Scrub Woodland
  - 3683 Timbarra Granite Blackbutt Forest
  - 3684 Timbarra Granite Strawberry Gum-Stringybark Woodland
- South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3638 South Coast Sands Bangalay Forest
- South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3191 South Coast Ranges Moist Gully Forest
- South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3646 Far South Coastal Ranges Silvertop Ash Forest
  - 3654 Shoalhaven Lowland Bloodwood Shrub Forest
  - 3659 South Coast Hinterland Silvertop Ash Forest
  - 3662 South Coast Lowland Blackbutt Forest
- Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
  - 3582 Hunter Coast Lowland Apple-Bloodwood Forest
  - 3583 Hunter Coast Lowland Scribbly Gum Forest
  - 3584 Illawarra Escarpment Cliffline Scrub
  - 3588 Shoalhaven Foothills Bloodwood Heathy Forest
  - 1681 Smooth-barked Apple - Cabbage Palm - Broad-leaved Mahogany woodland on Wallarah Peninsular
  - 3590 Southern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
  - 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
  - 3598 Woronora Plateau Scribbly Gum Woodland
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- Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 1666 Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Fringe Myrtle - Scaly Phebalium heathy woodland on exposed sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
- Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3689 Shoalhaven Escarpment Peppermint-Silvertop Ash Forest
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 1671 Brown Bloodwood - Dwyer's Red Gum - Red Ironbark heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 1668 Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Ironbark heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the upper Hunter
  - 1674 Red Ironbark - Brown Bloodwood - Black Pine heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 1672 Red Ironbark - Grey Gum - Black Pine heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 1669 Red Ironbark - Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Brown Bloodwood shrubby open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin

Forested wetlands
- Coastal Swamp Forests
  - 4009 Shoalhaven Lowland Flats Wet Swamp Forest

Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Heath Swamps
  - 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath
  - 3917 Shoalhaven Lowland Heath
  - 3923 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Creekline Swamp Heath
- Montane Bogs and Fens
  - 3937 Northern Escarpment Granitoid Wet Heath
  - 4136 Timbarra Granite Mallee Wet Heath

Grasslands
- Maritime Grasslands
  - 3407 Central Headland Grassland

Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
  - 3269 Shoalhaven Lowland Spotted Gum-Paperbark Forest
- New England Grassy Woodlands
  - 533 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on granitic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion

Heathlands
- Coastal Headland Heaths
  - 3794 Lower North Coast Headland Clay Heath
- Northern Montane Heaths
  - 4129 Timbarra Granite Rockplate Shrubland
  - 3847 Timbarra Granite Rocky Heath-Woodland
  - 4130 Warra Rockplate Shrubland
- South Coast Heaths
  - 3816 Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath
- Southern Montane Heaths
  - 3872 Illawarra Basalt Melaleuca Scrub
- Sydney Coastal Heaths
  - 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
  - 3814 Woronora Plateau Heath-Mallee

Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc
  - 99993 Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc

Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3234 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Moist Forest
  - 3250 Northern Foothills Blackbutt Grassy Forest
  - 3259 Sydney Coastal Shale-Sandstone Forest
- Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3278 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
  - 3286 Northern Escarpment Blackbutt Cool Moist Forest
  - 3287 Northern Escarpment Messmate Cool Wet Forest
  - 3288 Northern Escarpment Messmate Moist Grassy Forest
- Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
  - 3271 Shoalhaven Spotted Gum-Blackbutt Moist Forest
  - 3273 South Coast Lowland Shrub-Grass Forest
  - 3275 South Coast Spotted Gum Cycad Dry Forest
  - 3274 South Coast Spotted Gum Moist Forest

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