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Threatened species

Matted Bush-pea - Sydney Basin: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Pultenaea pedunculata

Conservation status in NSW: Endangered

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Last updated: 28 Apr 2022

Distribution of the species within this region

The Matted Bush-pea 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 predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Cumberland	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Matted Bush-pea - 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 (shrub/grass sub-formation)
- Central Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3473 Bungonia Slates Shrubby Open Forest
  - 3486 Wollondilly-Shoalhaven Slopes Grassy Open Forest
- Cumberland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3448 Castlereagh Ironbark Forest

Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3193 South Coast Stringybark-Monkey Gum Wet Forest
- South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3643 Bungonia Tableland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3737 Bungonia Tableland Scribbly Gum Shrub Forest
  - 1093 Red Stringybark - Brittle Gum - Inland Scribbly Gum dry open forest of the tablelands, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
  - 3746 Southern Tableland Snow Gum-Candlebark Shrub Forest
- Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 287 Long-leaved Box - Red Box - Red Stringybark mixed open forest on hills and hillslopes in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
  - 321 Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box - Black Cypress Pine shrub/grass woodland on siliceous sedimentary ranges in the upper NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bioregion

Forested wetlands
- Eastern Riverine Forests
  - 4063 Central and Southern Tableland River Oak Forest

Grasslands
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
  - 3415 Southern Tableland Red Grass-Spear Grass Grassland

Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
  - 3320 Cumberland Shale Plains Woodland
  - 3321 Cumberland Shale-Sandstone Ironbark Forest
- Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
  - 3376 Southern Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
- Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
  - 3338 Goulburn Tableland Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland

Heathlands
- Coastal Headland Heaths
  - 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
  - 3792 Far Southeast Headland Scrub
- South Coast Heaths
  - 3816 Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath

Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Highly disturbed areas with no or limited native vegetation
  - 99997 Highly disturbed areas - road verges, table drains, road embankments, ploughed paddocks etc.
- Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc
  - 99993 Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc

Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3273 South Coast Lowland Shrub-Grass Forest
- Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3303 Central Tableland Ribbon Gum Sheltered Forest

Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3145 Cumberland Bangalay x Blue Gum Riverflat Forest

Images

Matted bush-pea with pollen-laiden native bee. Note the flower is on an extended pedicel (stalk). Image 1 of 7.
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