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Threatened species

Variable Midge Orchid - Sydney Basin: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Genoplesium insigne

Conservation status in NSW: Critically Endangered

Commonwealth status: Critically Endangered

Last updated: 02 Nov 2023

Distribution of the species within this region

The Variable Midge Orchid 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
Wyong	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Variable Midge Orchid - 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)
- Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3433 Hunter Coast Foothills Spotted Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3435 Hunter Coast Lowland Flats Damp Forest

Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
  - 3582 Hunter Coast Lowland Apple-Bloodwood Forest
  - 3583 Hunter Coast Lowland Scribbly Gum Forest

Forested wetlands
- Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
  - 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
  - 4021 Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
  - 4042 Lower North Riverflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Forest
- Coastal Swamp Forests
  - 3998 Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
  - 4013 Wyong Paperbark-Woollybutt Swamp Forest

Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Heath Swamps
  - 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath

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