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Threatened species

Eastern Coastal Free-tailed Bat - South Eastern Queensland: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Micronomus norfolkensis
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 04 Mar 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Eastern Coastal Free-tailed Bat is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the South Eastern Queensland Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Burringbar-Conondale Ranges Known None
Clarence Lowlands Known None
Clarence Sandstones Known None
Scenic Rim Known None
Sunshine Coast-Gold Coast Lowlands Predicted None
Woodenbong Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Eastern Coastal Free-tailed Bat - South Eastern Queensland 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
      • 3475 Burragorang Escarpment Ironbark Forest
      • 3484 Burragorang Gorges Red Gum-Ironbark Sheltered Forest
      • 3509 Capertee Escarpment Slaty Gum-Ironbark Forest
      • 3483 Central Gorges Box-Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3490 Hunter Valley Footslopes Slaty Gum Forest
    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 4118 Clarence Gorges Silver-leaved Ironbark Forest
      • 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3422 Clarence Sandstone Rises Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3427 Northern Hinterland Hills Bloodwood-Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • Cumberland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3448 Castlereagh Ironbark Forest
    • Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3431 Central Hunter Ironbark Grassy Woodland
      • 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3433 Hunter Coast Foothills Spotted Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3435 Hunter Coast Lowland Flats Damp Forest
      • 3437 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Dry Forest
      • 3436 Hunter Coast Sandy Creekflat Low Paperbark Scrub
      • 3434 Hunter Coast White Mahogany Low Forest
      • 3438 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Ironbark Forest
      • 4157 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Singleton Mallee
      • 3439 Hunter Escarpment Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 4158 Hunter Escarpment Pokolbin Ironbark Woodland
      • 3442 Lower Hunter Lowland Ironbark-Paperbark Forest
      • 3443 Lower Hunter Spotted Gum Scrubby Transition Forest
      • 3444 Lower Hunter Spotted Gum-Ironbark Forest
      • 3446 Lower North Foothills Ironbark-Box-Gum Grassy Forest
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    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 983 New England Blackbutt - stringybark grassy forest the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 1605 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Native Olive shrubby open forest of the central and upper Hunter
      • 394 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress pine woodland on slopes and flats in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga Scrub regions
    • Southern Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3451 Far South Sheltered Monkey Gum Forest
  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3545 Coastal Sands Bloodwood Low Forest
      • 3546 Coastal Sands Littoral Scrub-Forest
      • 3548 Far North Sands Scribbly Gum Heathy Forest
      • 3549 Lower North Sandplain Heathy Forest
      • 3551 Northern Sands Blackbutt-Red Mahogany Forest
      • 3553 Northern Sands Bloodwood-Swamp Turpentine Forest
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    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3564 Clarence Sandstone Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
      • 3572 Koonyum Range Rhyolite Outcrop Shrub Woodland
      • 4160 Mid North Conglomerate Blackbutt Shrub Forest
      • 4161 Mid North Stringybark-Turpentine Shrub Forest
      • 4159 Nightcap Rhyolite Rocky Red Gum Woodland
      • 3573 Northern Lowland Scribbly Gum-Bloodwood Forest
      • 3577 Yuraygir Range Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
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    • South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3638 South Coast Sands Bangalay Forest
    • South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3108 South Coast Scarp Wet Vine Forest
    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3654 Shoalhaven Lowland Bloodwood Shrub Forest
      • 3659 South Coast Hinterland Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 3660 South Coast Hinterland Yellow Stringybark Forest
      • 3661 South Coast Hinterland Yertchuk Forest
      • 3662 South Coast Lowland Blackbutt Forest
      • 3300 Southeast Escarpment Peaks Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3665 Southeast Hinterland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
      • 3667 Southern Highlands Enriched Sandstone Forest
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    • Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3578 Blue Mountains Low Heathy Woodland
      • 3579 Blue Mountains Scribbly Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
      • 3582 Hunter Coast Lowland Apple-Bloodwood Forest
      • 3583 Hunter Coast Lowland Scribbly Gum Forest
      • 3586 Northern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3587 Pearl Beach Sand Forest
      • 3588 Shoalhaven Foothills Bloodwood Heathy Forest
      • 3591 Southern Sydney Sheltered Forest
      • 3592 Sydney Coastal Enriched Sandstone Forest
      • 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
      • 3595 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Gully Forest
      • 3596 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Forest
      • 3598 Woronora Plateau Scribbly Gum Woodland
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    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3601 Burragorang Footslopes Scribbly Gum Forest
      • 3604 Hunter Range Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 3605 Hunter Range Ironbark Forest
      • 3610 Lower Hunter Yellow Bloodwood Forest
      • 3615 Sydney Hinterland Apple-Blackbutt Gully Forest
      • 3619 Sydney Hinterland Enriched Sandstone Bloodwood Forest
      • 3616 Sydney Hinterland Grey Gum Transition Forest
      • 3617 Sydney Hinterland Peppermint-Apple Forest
      • 3618 Sydney Hinterland Sandflat Peppermint Forest
      • 3620 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine Sheltered Forest
      • 3621 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine-Apple Gully Forest
      • 3622 Sydney Hinterland Yellow Bloodwood Woodland
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    • Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3694 Upper Blue Mountains Ridgetop Woodland
    • Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 4162 Elderslie Banksia Scrub
      • 3630 Kurri Sand Heathy Woodland
      • 3631 Kurri Sand-Clay Woodland
      • 3633 Mellong Sand Swamp Woodland
      • 3634 Quorrobolong Sand Flats Forest
      • 3636 Warkworth Sands Woodland
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 712 Blue-leaved Ironbark - pine shrubby open forest on hills in the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 863 Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Inland Scribbly Gum shrubby open forest of the western Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 889 Inland Scribbly Gum - Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest on hills of western Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 1176 Slaty Box - Grey Gum shrubby woodland on footslopes of the upper Hunter Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4015 Central Hunter Riparian Forest
      • 4019 Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
      • 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
      • 4021 Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
      • 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
      • 4024 Cumberland Blue Box Riverflat Forest
      • 4025 Cumberland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
      • 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4028 Estuarine Swamp Oak Twig-rush Forest
      • 4027 Estuarine Swamp Oak-Mangrove Forest
      • 4034 Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
      • 4036 Hunter Coast Lake Flats Apple Forest
      • 4039 Hunter Range Creekflat Apple-Red Gum Forest
      • 4042 Lower North Riverflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Forest
      • 924 Melaleuca linariifolia alluvial melaleuca thicket of the lower Blue Mountains and Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 4049 South Coast Floodplain Grassy Swamp Forest
      • 4058 Sydney Hinterland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
      • 4059 Sydney Hinterland Sandy Creekflat Shrub Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3983 Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 3984 Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
      • 3985 Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
      • 3996 Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
      • 3986 Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
      • 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
      • 3995 Hunter Coast Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Forest
      • 3998 Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
      • 4156 Maroota Sands Swamp Forest
      • 4000 Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
      • 4001 Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • 4002 Northern Lowland Orange Gum Dry Swamp Forest
      • 4003 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Mahogany Forest
      • 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
      • 4006 Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
      • 4009 Shoalhaven Lowland Flats Wet Swamp Forest
      • 4012 Tomago Drooping Red Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 4013 Wyong Paperbark-Woollybutt Swamp Forest
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4070 Far North River Oak Wet Forest
      • 4073 Lower North Hinterland River Oak Forest
      • 4078 Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
      • 42 River Red Gum / River Oak riparian woodland wetland in the Hunter Valley
      • 1127 Sandstone cliff-face soak
      • 4084 Southern Escarpment River Oak Forest
      • 4086 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Scrub
      • 1270 Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelands
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  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
      • 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
      • 3963 Estuarine Reedland
      • 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
      • 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3904 Hunter Coast Grasstree Graminoid Swamp Scrub
      • 3908 Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
      • 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath
      • 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
      • 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3932 Central and Southern Tableland Swamp Meadow Complex
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 1692 Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
      • 3315 Central Hunter Ironbark-Spotted Gum Forest
      • 3314 Central Hunter Slopes Grey Box Forest
      • 3318 Cumberland Moist Shale Woodland
      • 3319 Cumberland Shale Hills Woodland
      • 3320 Cumberland Shale Plains Woodland
      • 3321 Cumberland Shale-Sandstone Ironbark Forest
      • 3322 Far North Ranges Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3327 Illawarra Lowland Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 1603 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bull Oak - Grey Box shrub - grass open forest of the central and lower Hunter
      • 1604 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Box - Spotted Gum shrub - grass woodland of the central and lower Hunter
      • 1691 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Box grassy woodland of the central and upper Hunter
      • 3329 Northern Hinterland Valleys Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 4052 South Coast Low Hills Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3330 South Coast Lowland Woollybutt Grassy Forest
      • 3332 Southeast Lowland Grassy Woodland
      • 3334 Western Hunter Flats Red Gum Sedge Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 731 Broad-leaved Peppermint - Red Stringybark grassy open forest on undulating hills, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3379 Barrington-Point Lookout Montane Grassy Forest
    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 3485 Central Hunter Slaty Gum Grassy Forest
      • 851 Grey Box - grass tree - spinifex woodland on limestone hills of the western Hunter and Capertee Valleys, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 1303 White Box - Grey Gum - Kurrajong grassy woodland on slopes of the northern Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 1304 White Box - Narrow-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 4127 Colo Plateau Dwarf Apple Heath-Woodland
      • 3807 Northern Sydney Heath-Mallee
      • 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
      • 3813 Sydney Hinterland Dwarf Apple Low Woodland
      • 3814 Woronora Plateau Heath-Mallee
    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3799 Agnes Banks Woodland
      • 3800 Bouddi Headland Wallum Heath
      • 3801 Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3803 Northern Sandplain Damp Wallum Heath
  • Rainforests
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 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
      • 3074 Hunter Coast Lowland Grey Myrtle Wet Forest
      • 3077 Illawarra Complex Dry Rainforest
      • 3091 Lower North Waterhousea-Water Gum 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
      • 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
      • 3131 Myall-Wallis Lakes Littoral Rainforest
      • 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
      • 3133 Sydney Coast Tuckeroo Littoral Rainforest
    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3025 Central Coast Gallery Rainforest
      • 3028 Illawarra Escarpment Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 1529 Lilly Pilly - Coachwood gully warm temperate rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 3029 Lower North Wet Gully Palm Rainforest
      • 4107 Mid North Escarpment Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
      • 3035 Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 1531 Sassafras - Grey Possumwood warm temperate rainforest of the New England escarpment
      • 1523 Sassafras - Prickly Ash - Lilly Pilly warm temperate rainforest on ranges of the Barrington Tops and lower North Coast
      • 3038 Sydney Coastal Coachwood Gallery Rainforest
      • 3040 Sydney Coastal Foreshores Gully Rainforest
      • 3039 Sydney Coastal Lilly Pilly-Palm Gallery Rainforest
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    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 3003 Border Ranges Black Booyong Subtropical 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
      • 3036 South Coast Warm Temperate-Subtropical Rainforest
  • Saline wetlands
    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
      • 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
      • 4097 Samphire Saltmarsh
      • 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3230 Central Coast Escarpment Moist Forest
      • 3232 Far North Coastal Hills Blackbutt-Ironbark Forest
      • 3234 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • 3237 Hunter Range Blue Gum Gully Forest
      • 3238 Hunter Range Colluvial Apple-Gum Forest
      • 3239 Hunter Range Sheltered Grey Gum Forest
      • 4109 Lower Hunter Screeslope Wet Forest
      • 3242 Lower North Ranges Turpentine Moist Forest
      • 3244 Lower North Spotted Gum-Mahogany-Ironbark Sheltered Forest
      • 3241 Lower North White Mahogany-Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • 3247 North Brother Rocky Slopes Moist Forest
      • 3248 Northern Blackbutt-Turpentine Shrub Forest
      • 3249 Northern Bloodwood-Ironbark Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3250 Northern Foothills Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • 3251 Northern Gorges Diverse Grassy Forest
      • 3252 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Mahogany Grassy Forest
      • 3253 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Turpentine Mesic Forest
      • 3254 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Forest Oak Grassy Forest
      • 3258 Sydney Basin Creekflat Blue Gum-Apple Forest
      • 3259 Sydney Coastal Shale-Sandstone Forest
      • 3261 Sydney Sandstone Plateau Shale Forest
      • 3262 Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest
      • 3263 Watagan Range Turpentine-Mahogany Grassy Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3287 Northern Escarpment Messmate Cool Wet Forest
      • 3288 Northern Escarpment Messmate Moist Grassy Forest
    • Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3266 Nattai-Morton Sandstone Peppermint Gully Forest
      • 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
      • 3270 Shoalhaven Lowland Wet Gully Forest
      • 3271 Shoalhaven Spotted Gum-Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • 3272 South Coast Lowland Creekflat Forest
      • 3273 South Coast Lowland Shrub-Grass Forest
      • 3275 South Coast Spotted Gum Cycad Dry Forest
      • 3274 South Coast Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • 3276 South Coast Stringybark Cycad Exposed Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3301 Southeast Tableland Ranges Snow Gum Sheltered Forest
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3136 Blue Gum High Forest
      • 3137 Blue Mountains Enriched Blue Gum Moist Forest
      • 3139 Border Ranges Brush Box-Tallowwood Wet Forest
      • 3145 Cumberland Bangalay x Blue Gum Riverflat Forest
      • 3147 Far North Brush Box-Bloodwood Wet Forest
      • 3150 Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3154 Illawarra Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • 3153 Illawarra Escarpment Bangalay x Blue Gum Wet Forest
      • 4115 Koonyum Range Rhyolite Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3158 Lower North Foothills Turpentine-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • 3087 Lower North Ranges Riparian Turpentine 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
      • 3166 Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest
      • 3102 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3171 Northern Lowland Viney 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
      • 3176 Sydney Enriched Sandstone Moist Forest
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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