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Threatened species

Natural Temperate Grassland of the South Eastern Highlands - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Natural Temperate Grassland of the South Eastern Highlands
Conservation status in NSW:
Commonwealth status: Critically Endangered
Last updated: 02 Nov 2021

Distribution of the species within this region

The Natural Temperate Grassland of the South Eastern Highlands 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 Predicted None
Crookwell Predicted South of the Abercrombie River
Kybeyan-Gourock Predicted None
Monaro Predicted None
Murrumbateman Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Natural Temperate Grassland of the South Eastern Highlands - 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.

  • Grasslands
    • Temperate Montane Grasslands
      • 894 Kangaroo Grass - Purple Wire-grass - Mat-rush - Wallaby Grass - Common Buttons dry tussock grassland in the north-western and Eastern parts of the Southern Tablelands of the South Eastern Highlands Bi
      • 895 Kangaroo Grass - Purple Wire-grass - Mat-rush - Wallaby Grass - Common Buttons dry tussock grassland on steep sites in the north-western and Eastern parts of the Southern Tablelands of the South Easte
      • 896 Kangaroo Grass - Wallaby Grass - Snow Grass moist tussock grassland in the Monaro and the Southern Tablelands regions of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 3413 Monaro Kangaroo Grass Woodland-Grassland Complex
      • 3414 Monaro Snowgrass-Kangaroo Grass Grassland
      • 1110 River Tussock - Tall Sedge - Kangaroo Grass moist grasslands of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 1185 Snow Grass - Kangaroo Grass - Sheep's Burr grassland on undulating basalt plateaux, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 3415 Southern Tableland Red Grass-Spear Grass Grassland
      • 3416 Southern Tableland Valley Flats Damp Grassland
      • 1202 Speargrass grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 1288 Wallaby Grass - Kangaroo Grass - Rush - Blown Grass Wet Tussock Grassland Moist Grasslands of the South Eastern Highlands 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
      • 3378 Yass Gorge Rhyolite Grassland
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    • Western Slopes Grasslands
      • 320 Kangaroo Grass - Redleg Grass forb-rich temperate tussock grassland of the northern Monaro, ACT and upper Lachlan River regions of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bi