Nature conservation

Threatened species

Cyperus conicus - Brigalow Belt South: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Cyperus conicus
Conservation status in NSW: Endangeredexternal link
Commonwealth status: Not listedexternal link
Last updated: 03 Jan 2019

Distribution of the species within this region

The Cyperus conicus is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Brigalow Belt South Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Liverpool Plains Predicted None
Northern Basalts Known None
Northern Outwash Known None
Pilliga Outwash Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Cyperus conicus - Brigalow Belt South 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)
    • Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 702 Blakely's Red Gum riparian woodland of the Pilliga Outwash, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 411 Buloke - White Cypress Pine woodland on outwash plains in the Pilliga Scrub and Narrabri regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 148 Dirty Gum - Buloke - White Cypress Pine - ironbark shrubby woodland on deep sandy soils in the Liverpool Plains region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 88 Pilliga Box - White Cypress Pine - Buloke shrubby woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 397 Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine shrub grass tall woodland of the Pilliga - Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 409 Dirty (Baradine) Gum - White Bloodwood - White Cypress Pine - Motherumbah shrubby woodland on sandy soils in the Pilliga Scrub and surrounding region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 430 Motherumbah - Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine tall shrubland of the Narrabri to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 576 Motherumbah - hill red gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby low woodland mainly in the southern Nandewar Bioregion
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    • Yetman Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 370 Black Cypress Pine - Dirty Gum - bloodwood - She Oak open forest on siliceous hills in the northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 672 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Dirty Gum grassy open forest of north western Nandewar Bioregion
      • 369 Blakely's Red Gum - Smooth-barked Apple shrub swamp woodland on siliceous white sands in the Yetman region
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  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Inland Floodplain Swamps
      • 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
      • 416 Pilliga tank gilgai wetland sedgeland rushland, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 400 Riparian sedgeland rushland wetland of the Pilliga to Goonoo sandstone forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Grassy woodlands
    • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
      • 628 Carbeen +/- Coolabah grassy woodland on floodplain clay loam soil on north-western NSW floodplains, mainly Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
      • 56 Poplar Box - Belah woodland on clay-loam soils on alluvial plains of north-central NSW
      • 101 Poplar Box - Yellow Box - Western Grey Box grassy woodland on cracking clay soils mainly in the Liverpool Plains, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 81 Western Grey Box - cypress pine shrub grass shrub tall woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
      • 428 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - Curracabah - White Box tall woodland on sand in the Narrabri - Warialda region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 71 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - River Red Gum - bloodwood tall woodland on sandy loam alluvial and eolian soils in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
      • 206 Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall woodland of alluvial sand (sand monkeys) in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion