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Threatened species

Wollemi Mint-bush - Sydney Basin: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Prostanthera cryptandroides subsp. cryptandroides
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Vulnerable
Last updated: 07 Jan 2019

Distribution of the species within this region

The Wollemi Mint-bush is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Hunter Known None
Kerrabee Known None
Wollemi Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Wollemi Mint-bush - Sydney Basin 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)
    • 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
      • 3696 Western Blue Mountains Rocky Scribbly Gum Woodland
    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
      • 712 Blue-leaved Ironbark - pine shrubby open forest on hills in the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 1671 Brown Bloodwood - Dwyer's Red Gum - Red Ironbark heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 1655 Grey Box - Slaty Box shrub - grass woodland on sandstone slopes of the upper Hunter and Sydney Basin
      • 863 Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Inland Scribbly Gum shrubby open forest of the western Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 1668 Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Ironbark heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the upper Hunter
      • 3762 Northern Wollemi Rocky Stringybark Forest
      • 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
      • 1176 Slaty Box - Grey Gum shrubby woodland on footslopes of the upper Hunter Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 1277 Tumbledown Gum - Blakely's Red Gum - pine shrubby forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 3770 Western Blue Mountains Escarpment Ironbark Forest
      • 3773 Western Hunter Currawang Low Forest
      • 3777 Western Hunter Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3782 Western Hunter Rockplate Micromyrtus Heath
      • 1314 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Grassy woodlands
    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 703 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 3388 Central West Valleys White Box Forest
      • 3396 Northwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Woodland
      • 1303 White Box - Grey Gum - Kurrajong grassy woodland on slopes of the northern Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  • Heathlands
    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 885 Heathy shrublands on rocky outcrops of the western slopes
      • 535 Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine heathy woodland on outcropping granite in the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
    • Sydney Montane Heaths
      • 3865 Western Blue Mountains Pagoda Scrub