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Threatened species

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

Scientific name: Pultenaea aculeata

Conservation status in NSW: Endangered

Commonwealth status: Endangered

Last updated: 17 Mar 2025

Distribution of the species within this region

The Olinda 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
Wollemi	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Olinda 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
  - 3494 Western Blue Mountains Gorges Box Forest
- Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 1088 Red Box - Grey Gum - stringybark woodland on talus slopes of the western Blue Mountains, Sydney Basin Bioregion

Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3736 Cudgegong Sandslope Scribbly Gum Woodland
- Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 1666 Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Fringe Myrtle - Scaly Phebalium heathy woodland on exposed sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 3627 Wollemi Plateau Yertchuk-Stringybark Woodland
- Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3695 Western Blue Mountains Peppermint Sheltered Forest
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 1679 Dywer's Red Gum - Fringe Myrtle heathy open woodland on sandstone plateau of the upper Hunter and Sydney Basin
  - 1676 Grey Gum - Scribbly Gum - Black Pine heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 479 Narrow-leaved Ironbark- Black Cypress Pine - stringybark +/- Grey Gum +/- Narrow-leaved Wattle shrubby open forest on sandstone hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Sydney Basin Bio
  - 3763 Northwest Wollemi Colluvial Apple Forest
  - 1176 Slaty Box - Grey Gum shrubby woodland on footslopes of the upper Hunter Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  - 3786 Western Hunter Scribbly Gum-Pine Woodland
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Heathlands
- Sydney Montane Heaths
  - 636 Allocasuarina nana heathland at Genowlan Point, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  - 3865 Western Blue Mountains Pagoda Scrub
  - 3866 Wollemi Rockplate Scrub

Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc
  - 99993 Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc

Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3305 Sydney Montane Basalt Moist Forest

Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Southern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3225 Western Blue Mountains Colluvial Apple Forest

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