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Rusty Plum, Plum Boxwood - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Last updated: 15 Jun 2020

Distribution of the species within this region

The Rusty Plum, Plum Boxwood is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the NSW North Coast Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Chaelundi	Known	None
Coffs Coast and Escarpment	Known	None
Dalmorton	Known	None
Macleay Hastings	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Rusty Plum, Plum Boxwood - NSW North Coast is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

Forested wetlands
- Coastal Swamp Forests
  - 4008 Northern Sands Swamp Mahogany Shrubby Rush Forest

Rainforests
- Dry Rainforests
  - 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
  - 3101 Northern Hinterland Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
- Littoral Rainforests
  - 3122 Far North Littoral Rainforest
  - 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
  - 3127 Mid North Headland Brush Box Littoral Rainforest
  - 3130 Mid North Tuckeroo-Paperbark Littoral Wet Forest
  - 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
- Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
  - 4107 Mid North Escarpment Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
  - 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
  - 3035 Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
- Subtropical Rainforests
  - 3121 Broken Head Lowland Rainforest
  - 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
  - 3009 Far North Lowland Palm Gully Rainforest
  - 3011 Far North Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
  - 845 Giant Stinging Tree - Fig dry subtropical rainforest of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 3002 Lower Richmond Hills Dry-Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3019 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3021 Northern Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
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Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3248 Northern Blackbutt-Turpentine Shrub Forest
  - 3250 Northern Foothills Blackbutt Grassy Forest
  - 3167 Northern Hinterland Blackbutt-Forest Oak Wet Forest
  - 3252 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Mahogany Grassy Forest
  - 3253 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Turpentine Mesic Forest
  - 3254 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Forest Oak Grassy Forest
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Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3147 Far North Brush Box-Bloodwood Wet Forest
  - 3148 Far North Brush Box-Walnut Wet Forest
  - 3160 Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
  - 3161 Mid North Hinterland Wet Forest
  - 3162 Mid North Lowland Flooded Gum-Palm Wet Forest
  - 3165 Northern Brush Box Subtropical Wet Forest
  - 3166 Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest
  - 3168 Northern Hinterland Brush Box-Quince Wet Forest
  - 3169 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3172 Northern Ranges Brush Box-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
  - 3174 Northern Turpentine-Brush Box Wet Forest
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- Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3206 Northern Escarpment Corkwood-Brush Box Wet Forest

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