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Threatened species

Prasophyllum sp. Wybong - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Prasophyllum sp. Wybong
Conservation status in NSW:
Commonwealth status: Critically Endangered
Last updated: 08 Sep 2020

Distribution of the species within this region

The Prasophyllum sp. Wybong 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
Capertee Uplands Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Prasophyllum sp. Wybong - 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 (shrub/grass sub-formation)
    • Central Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3490 Hunter Valley Footslopes Slaty Gum Forest
    • Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3431 Central Hunter Ironbark Grassy Woodland
      • 3438 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Ironbark Forest
      • 4157 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Singleton Mallee
      • 4158 Hunter Escarpment Pokolbin Ironbark Woodland
      • 3443 Lower Hunter Spotted Gum Scrubby Transition Forest
      • 3444 Lower Hunter Spotted Gum-Ironbark 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
      • 389 Motherumbah - White Bloodwood - cypress pine very tall shrubland / woodland of the Coonabarabran region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 529 Mugga Ironbark - stringybark shrubby open forest of the far southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 384 Nortons Box - stringybark - cough bush shrub - grass woodland on volcanic crests of the Warrumbungle Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 543 Rough-barked Apple - White Box - Rusty Fig shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of Brigalow Belt South and Nandewar Bioregions
      • 381 Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grass/shrub footslope open forest, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 228 Semi-mesic woodland on basalt hills of the dry subtropical climate zone, north western slopes of NSW
      • 598 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Box - White Cypress Pine viney scrub woodland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 413 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - box dry shrub grass woodland of the Pilliga Scrub - Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 594 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine shrubby open forest of Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 573 Stringybark - spinifex woodland associated serpentinite outcrops in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 562 Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 386 Tumbledown Red Gum trachyte rock flat sedgeland - shrubland of the Warrumbungle Range region
      • 3525 Upper Hunter Box-Blakelys Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 390 Warrumbungle Currawang very tall shrubland
      • 382 Warrumbungle mountains Nandewar Box - Yellow Box shrub grass open forest, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 385 Warrumbungle trachyte hillcrest Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - White Bloodwood shrubby woodland
      • 391 Warrumbungle trachyte outcrop heathland / low woodland
      • 380 Warrumbungle trachyte talus scree woodland
      • 412 White Box - Black Cypress Pine shrubby hill woodland in the east Pilliga - Mendooran - Gulgong regions, mainly Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 597 White Box - cypress pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrub grass open forest / woodland of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 587 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 588 White Box - White Cypress Pine shrubby hills open forest mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 591 White Box shrubby open forest on hills mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 393 White Box shrubby woodland of the western Liverpool Range, Warrumbungle Range and south-west Pilliga forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 555 White Cypress Pine - Orange Gum - Acacia granite outcrop shrubland in the Moonbi area of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 429 White Cypress Pine - Poplar Box - Silver-leaved Ironbark viney shrub woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 564 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Caley's Ironbark open forest of the central Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 418 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Wilga shrub grass woodland of the Narrabri-Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1317 White Cypress Pine - White Box - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 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
      • 504 Black Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple - stringybark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 508 Blakely's Red Gum - Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 523 McKies Stringybark - Western New England Blackbutt - Rough-barked Apple open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 528 Mugga Ironbark - Blakely's Red Gum open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 566 Mugga Ironbark open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 537 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - Red Stringybark open forest of the southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 551 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - stringybark - Tenterfield Woollybutt shrubby open forest of the Horton River area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 538 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely’s Red Gum open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1116 Rough-barked Apple - Silvertop Stringybark - Red Stringybark grassy open forest of south western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 552 Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple - Eucalyptus quinniorum shrubby open forest of southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 578 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Caleys Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 558 Western New England Blackbutt - stringybark open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3767 Upper Hunter Escarpment Colluvial Ironbark Forest
      • 3772 Western Hunter Caleys Ironbark Low Forest
      • 3774 Western Hunter Dwyers Red Gum-Pine Woodland
    • Yetman Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 791 Cypress pine - Bulloak shrubby woodland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 373 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine +/- Buloke tall open forest or woodland of the Warialda to Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 422 Smooth-barked Apple - cypress pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Bloodwood tall heathy woodland of the Pilliga forests to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 458 White Cypress Pine - Buloke - White Box shrubby open forest on hills in the Liverpool Plains - Dubbo region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Forested wetlands
    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 84 River Oak - Rough-barked Apple - red gum - box riparian tall woodland (wetland) of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 42 River Red Gum / River Oak riparian woodland wetland in the Hunter Valley
  • Grasslands
    • Western Slopes Grasslands
      • 710 Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Common Woodruff clay plain grassland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 796 Derived grassland of the NSW South Western Slopes
      • 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
      • 250 Derived tussock grassland of the central western plains and lower slopes of NSW
      • 619 Derived Wire Grass grassland of the NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1076 Plains Grass - Bluegrass grassland of the Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1698 Plains grass; Purple wiregrass; Wallaby Grass grassland on basalt soils of the Merriwa plateau
      • 460 Tumbledown Gum - ironbark - Porcupine Grass hummock grassland / low woodland of the Mount Kaputar to Bingara region, Nandewar Bioregion
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  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 3315 Central Hunter Ironbark-Spotted Gum Forest
      • 3314 Central Hunter Slopes Grey Box Forest
      • 1603 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bull Oak - Grey Box shrub - grass open forest of the central and lower Hunter
    • 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
      • 81 Western Grey Box - cypress pine shrub grass shrub tall woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 498 Black Sallee plateau low woodland in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 510 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 567 Broad-leaved Stringybark - Yellow Box shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 489 Long-leaved Box +/- Nortons Box - red gum grassy woodland on hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 533 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on granitic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 539 Rough-barked Apple - Cabbage Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1118 Rough-barked Apple riparian forb/grass open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 488 Silvertop Stringybark - Yellow Box +/- Nortons Box grassy woodland on basalt hills mainly on northern aspects of the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3363 Western New England Blakelys Red Gum-Box Grassy Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 3376 Southern Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
    • 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
      • 277 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 599 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on flats and hills in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 711 Bluegrass - Spear Grass - Redleg Grass derived grasslands of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 441 Carbeen - White Box +/- Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy tall woodland on basalt hills, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3485 Central Hunter Slaty Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3404 Central West Flats Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3405 Central West Flats Inland Grey Box Grassy Forest
      • 3388 Central West Valleys White Box Forest
      • 451 Derived Spear Grass - Slender Bamboo Grass mixed tussock grassland mainly of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 395 Derived speargrass - wallaby grass - wire grass mixed forb grassland mainly in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga - Coolah region
      • 201 Fuzzy Box Woodland on alluvial brown loam soils mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 202 Fuzzy Box woodland on colluvium and alluvial flats in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion (including Pilliga) and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 847 Grey Box - Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 516 Grey Box grassy woodland or open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 275 Herbaceous White Box - Apple Box valley woodland of the NSW central western slopes
      • 326 Long-leaved Box - Red Box grass-shrub open forest on hillslopes in the Mudgee Region, NSW central western slopes
      • 3393 Northwest Basalt Box Plains Grass Woodland
      • 3394 Northwest Basalt Grassland-Woodland Complex
      • 3398 Northwest Slopes Box-Apple Woodland
      • 3396 Northwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Woodland
      • 4147 Northwest White Box Sparse Grassy Woodland
      • 3397 Northwest Yellow Box Grassy Woodland
      • 511 Queensland Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Rats Tail Grass - spear grass - panic grass derived grassland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 426 Red Box - White Box +/- Red Stringybark hill woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 464 Red Stringybark - Kurrajong - mixed eucalypt grassy open forest of the Coonabarabran - Gulgong region in the Brigalow Belt South and NSW SWS Bioregion
      • 281 Rough-Barked Apple - red gum - Yellow Box woodland on alluvial clay to loam soils on valley flats in the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 544 Rough-barked Apple - White Cypress Pine - Blakely's Red Gum riparian open forest / woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 593 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine grassy woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 444 Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy tall woodland on clay-loam soils on plains in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3399 Southwest Hills White Box-Blakelys Red Gum Forest
      • 3406 Southwest Ranges White Box Woodland
      • 3400 Southwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Grassy Woodland
      • 461 Tumbledown Gum woodland on hills in the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3403 Western Hunter Creekflat Apple Grassy Forest
      • 272 White Box - Black Cypress Pine - red gum +/- Mugga Ironbark shrubby woodland in hills of the NSW central western slopes
      • 274 White Box - Rough-barked Apple alluvial woodland of the NSW central western slopes including in the Mudgee region
      • 589 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland on mainly clay loam soils on hills mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 267 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Western Grey Box shrub/grass/forb woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 434 White Box grass shrub hill woodland on clay to loam soils on volcanic and sedimentary hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 266 White Box grassy woodland in the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 1383 White Box grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 590 White Box grassy woodland on the Inverell basalts mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 433 White Box grassy woodland to open woodland on basalt flats and rises in the Liverpool Plains sub-region, BBS Bioregion
      • 1315 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1329 Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 421 Yellow Box - White Cypress Pine alluvial terrace flats grassy woodland in the Pilliga forests and surrounds, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 276 Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on alluvium or parna loams and clays on flats in NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 1695 Yellow Box grassy woodland on basalt soils of the upper Hunter
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