Nature conservation

Threatened species

Buttercup Doubletail - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Diuris aequalis
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Last updated: 25 Feb 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Buttercup Doubletail is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Bungonia Known None
Crookwell Known Within 20 km of the Great Dividing Range
Kanangra Known None
Monaro Known North of Hoskintown
Oberon Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Buttercup Doubletail - South Eastern Highlands 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 (shrubby sub-formation)
    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3643 Bungonia Tableland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
      • 3650 Goulburn-Lithgow Ranges Silvertop Ash Forest
    • Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 730 Broad-leaved Peppermint - Mountain Gum dry open forest of the Central Tablelands area of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 3735 Central Tableland Peppermint Shrub-Grass Forest
      • 349 Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Stringybark open forest on hills composed of silicous substrates in the mid-Murrumbidgee and upper Lachlan catchments mainly in the western South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 352 Red Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum hillslope open forest on meta-sediments in the Yass - Boorowa - Crookwell region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 1093 Red Stringybark - Brittle Gum - Inland Scribbly Gum dry open forest of the tablelands, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
  • Grasslands
    • Temperate Montane Grasslands
      • 797 Derived grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion
      • 1289 Wallaby Grass - Red-grass - Tall Speargrass - Kangaroo Grass dry tussock grassland of the North-western and Eastern Southern Tablelands in the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 731 Broad-leaved Peppermint - Red Stringybark grassy open forest on undulating hills, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 350 Candlebark - Blakely's Red Gum - Long-leaved Box grassy woodland in the Rye Park to Yass region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highland Bioregion
      • 3373 Goulburn Tableland Box-Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3374 Goulburn Tableland Peppermint Grassy Forest
      • 3376 Southern Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 1191 Snow Gum - Candle Bark woodland on broad valley flats of the tablelands and slopes, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 3338 Goulburn Tableland Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
      • 3344 New England Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3347 Southern Tableland Creekflat Ribbon Gum Forest