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Bush Stone-curlew - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Burhinus grallarius
Conservation status in NSW: Endangeredexternal link
Commonwealth status: Not listedexternal link
Last updated: 07 Sep 2017

Distribution of the species within this region

The Bush Stone-curlew 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 predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Coffs Coast and Escarpment Known None
Dalmorton Predicted None
Guy Fawkes Predicted None
Karuah Manning Known None
Macleay Hastings Known None
Washpool Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Bush Stone-curlew - 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.

  • Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
    • Gibber Transition Shrublands
      • 197 Black Box - Gidgee - chenopod low open woodland wetland on alluvial clay soils in the Culgoa River region of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Mulga Lands Bioregion
      • 118 Gidgee chenopod woodland on red-brown clays in the semi-arid (hot) climate zone mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion.
      • 131 Gidgee of the intermittent watercourses or the arid zone (mainly Channel Country Bioregion and Simpson Strezlecki Dunefields Bioregion)
      • 137 Whitewood - Western Rosewood low woodland of the NSW north western plains
    • North-west Plain Shrublands
      • 229 Derived mixed shrubland on loamy-clay soils in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 144 Leopardwood low woodland mainly on clayey soils in the semi-arid zone
      • 125 Mulga - Ironwood shrubland on loams and clays mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 264 Supplejack woodland of the NSW north-western semi-arid plains
    • Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
      • 199 Hooked Needlewood - Needlewood - Mulga - Turpentine Bush open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid plains
      • 128 Nelia tall open shrubland of semi-arid sandplains
  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
    • Central Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3474 Burragorang Escarpment Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3475 Burragorang Escarpment Ironbark Forest
      • 3476 Burragorang Escarpment Rocky Woodland
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    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3417 Baryulgil Serpentinite Woodland
      • 3418 Clarence Foothills Bloodwood-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
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    • Cumberland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3448 Castlereagh Ironbark Forest
    • Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3431 Central Hunter Ironbark Grassy Woodland
      • 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3433 Hunter Coast Foothills Spotted Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
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    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3500 Cathedral Rock Granite Peppermint-Gum Forest
      • 3501 Eastern New England Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • 3502 Maryland Moist Grassy Forest
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    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3454 Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3455 Clarence Gorges Granite Grassy Forest
      • 3456 Clarence Gorges Grey Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
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    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 3513 Kaputar White Box-Apple Sheltered Forest
      • 3514 Nandewar Hills Apple-White Box Shrub-Grass Woodland
      • 3515 Nandewar Serpentinite Red Stringybark Woodland
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    • 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
      • 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
      • 1384 White Cypress Pine - Bulloak - ironbark woodland of the Pilliga area of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3533 Avisford Sandstone Moist Sheltered Forest
      • 338 Blakely's Red Gum - Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box woodland on Wyangala Granite in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 3510 Capertee Slopes Stringybark-Box Forest
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3545 Coastal Sands Bloodwood Low Forest
      • 3546 Coastal Sands Littoral Scrub-Forest
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    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3557 Banyabba Creekflat Orange Gum-Paperbark Forest
      • 3558 Banyabba Rockplate Shrub Woodland
      • 3559 Chambigne Mahogany-Brown Bloodwood Forest
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    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3672 Carrai-Werrikimbe Blackbutt Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3673 Chaelundi-Mann River Granite Scrub Woodland
      • 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3697 Bingara Tumbledown Gum Spinifex Woodland
      • 3713 Macintyre Hills Ironbark Shrub Forest
      • 3707 Mole River Blackbutt Woodland
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    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3492 Wollondilly-Shoalhaven Quartz Hills Forest
    • Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 344 Argyle Apple - Acacia mearnsii valley open forest of the Yass - Rye Park region of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and adjoining NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 701 Blakely's Red Gum - Red Stringybark open forest on slopes and hills of the western slopes
      • 349 Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Stringybark open forest on hills composed of silicous substrates in the mid-Murrumbidgee and upper Lachlan catchments mainly in the western South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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    • 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
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    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3603 Hawkesbury Escarpment Bloodwood Forest
      • 3604 Hunter Range Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 3605 Hunter Range Ironbark Forest
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    • Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3628 Castlereagh Shrubby Swamp Woodland
      • 4162 Elderslie Banksia Scrub
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3750 Binnaway Sandstone Ironbark-Pine Shrubby Woodland
      • 417 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - red gum +/- White Bloodwood shrubby open forest on hills of the southern Pilliga, Coonabarabran and Garawilla regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 341 Blakely's Red Gum - Red Box - Black Cypress Pine grass/shrub woodland on hills in the Upper Slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and western South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4015 Central Hunter Riparian Forest
      • 4016 Clarence Floodplain Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4019 Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3983 Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 3984 Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
      • 3985 Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4061 Bega-Towamba Riparian Scrub
      • 4062 Capertee Riparian Paperbark Thicket
      • 4063 Central and Southern Tableland River Oak Forest
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    • Inland Riverine Forests
      • 356 Blakely's Red Gum x Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall riparian woodland, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 4089 Namoi-Upper Hunter River Red Gum Forest
      • 10 River Red Gum - Black Box woodland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
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  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3958 Castlereagh Gravel Sedgeland
      • 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
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    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3898 Clarence Lowland Smudgy Apple Banksia Forest
      • 3907 Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
      • 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath
      • 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
      • 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3941 Megalong Valley Fringing Swamp Scrub
      • 3391 Munghorn Seepage Wet Herbfield
      • 4164 New England Peppermint Swamp Margin Woodland
      • 3956 Western New England Wet Tea-tree Scrub
  • Grasslands
    • Maritime Grasslands
      • 3407 Central Headland Grassland
      • 3408 Northern Headland Grassland
      • 3409 Southern Headland Grassland
      • 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
    • Riverine Plain Grasslands
      • 165 Derived corkscrew grass grassland/forbland on sandplains and plains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
    • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
      • 50 Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
      • 43 Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
      • 214 Native Millet - Cup Grass grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
      • 49 Partly derived Windmill Grass - copperburr alluvial plains shrubby grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 52 Queensland Bluegrass +/- Mitchell Grass grassland on cracking clay floodplains and alluvial plains mainly the northern-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Temperate Montane Grasslands
      • 3416 Southern Tableland Valley Flats Damp Grassland
      • 1288 Wallaby Grass - Kangaroo Grass - Rush - Blown Grass Wet Tussock Grassland Moist Grasslands of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Western Slopes Grasslands
      • 1698 Plains grass; Purple wiregrass; Wallaby Grass grassland on basalt soils of the Merriwa plateau
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 3312 Acacia Creek Grassy Forest
      • 3313 Araluen Scarp Grassy Forest
      • 1692 Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
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    • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
      • 628 Carbeen +/- Coolabah grassy woodland on floodplain clay loam soil on north-western NSW floodplains, mainly Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
      • 248 Mixed box eucalypt woodland on low sandy-loam rises on alluvial plains in central western NSW
      • 251 Mixed Eucalypt woodlands of floodplains in the southern-eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 3351 Armidale Creekflat Snow Gum Woodland-Scrub
      • 3352 Armidale Quartz Hills Stringybark Forest
      • 704 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest or woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 703 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 3365 Bondo Slopes Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
      • 350 Candlebark - Blakely's Red Gum - Long-leaved Box grassy woodland in the Rye Park to Yass region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highland Bioregion
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    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3379 Barrington-Point Lookout Montane Grassy Forest
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3339 Guyra Basalt Snow Gum Woodland
      • 534 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on sedimentary or basaltic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 337 Apple Box - Silver Banksia - Drooping Sheoak open woodland - tall shrubland in protected gullies of the Coolac - Tumut serpentinite belt, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion.
      • 282 Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 279 Blakely's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine woodland on footslopes of hills in central part of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
      • 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
      • 3793 Hunter Coast Headland Clay Heath
      • 3796 Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath
    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 3827 Eastern New England Leucogranite Mallee Scrub
      • 3825 Mid North Escarpment Rock Outcrop Scrub
      • 3842 Northeast New England Granites Outcrop Scrub
      • 3845 Tenterfield Granite Skeletal Shrubland
      • 3847 Timbarra Granite Rocky Heath-Woodland
    • South Coast Heaths
      • 3815 Eurobodalla Headland Heath
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 3808 Northern Sydney Sandstone Rockplate Shrubland
      • 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
      • 3810 Southern Sydney Rockplate Heath
      • 3814 Woronora Plateau Heath-Mallee
    • Sydney Montane Heaths
      • 3866 Wollemi Rockplate Scrub
    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3800 Bouddi Headland Wallum Heath
      • 3801 Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3803 Northern Sandplain Damp Wallum Heath
  • Rainforests
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • 3110 Greater Sydney Enriched Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
      • 3120 Hunter-Peel Ranges Dry Rainforest
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    • Littoral Rainforests
      • 3123 Far North Sands Coastal Cypress Littoral Rainforest
      • 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
      • 3130 Mid North Tuckeroo-Paperbark Littoral Wet Forest
      • 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
      • 3133 Sydney Coast Tuckeroo Littoral Rainforest
    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
      • 3035 Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
    • Southern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3045 South Coast Temperate Gully Rainforest
    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
      • 4031 Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Rainforest
      • 3021 Northern Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
  • Saline wetlands
    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4092 Coastal Headland Sea Spray Grassland
      • 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
      • 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
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  • Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
    • Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
      • 35 Brigalow - Belah open forest / woodland on alluvial often gilgaied clay from Pilliga Scrub to Goondiwindi, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 629 Brigalow - Bladder Saltbush open woodland to tall open shrubland in the Come-By-Chance region, Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 31 Brigalow - Gidgee open woodland on clay plains west of the Culgoa River, Mulga Lands Bioregion
      • 29 Brigalow open woodland on clay soils in the Nyngan-Bourke-Enngonia regions of the NSW north-western plains
    • Inland Floodplain Woodlands
      • 13 Black Box - Lignum woodland wetland of the inner floodplains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 630 Black Box - Silver Saltbush chenopod open woodland on terrace rises on alluvial plains in the lower Darling River and lower Murray River region of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 16 Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
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    • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
      • 38 Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
      • 37 Black Box woodland wetland on NSW central and northern floodplains including the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
      • 39 Coolabah - River Coobah - Lignum woodland wetland of frequently flooded floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
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    • Riverine Plain Woodlands
      • 4104 Central Hunter Weeping Myall Forest
      • 27 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 26 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
      • 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
      • 376 Mixed scrub low open woodland on sand rises and dunes on floodplains in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
      • 20 Buloke - Moonah - Black Box open woodland on sandy rises of semi arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 22 Semi-arid shrubby Buloke - Slender Cypress Pine woodland, far south-western NSW
      • 21 Slender Cypress Pine - Sugarwood - Western Rosewood open woodland on sandy rises mainly in the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
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    • Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
      • 59 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Leopardwood low open woodland on sandplain and sandy flats in semi arid (hot) and arid climate zones
      • 57 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Wilga woodland of central NSW including the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 58 Black Oak - Western Rosewood open woodland on deep sandy loams mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 252 Sugarwood open woodland of the inland plains mainly Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
      • 117 Buck Spinifex shrubby hummock grassland / Coolabah Apple - Silver-leaved Ironbark open woodland on deep sand in the Enngonia to Cumborah regions, north western NSW
      • 192 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Poplar Box +/- Ironwood shrub - grass woodland on rises in the north-western plains of NSW
      • 146 Whitewood low open woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and north-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Western Peneplain Woodlands
      • 135 Coobah - Western Rosewood low open tall shrubland or woodland mainly on outwash areas in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
      • 108 Gum Coolabah - Mulga open woodland on gravel ridges of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 134 Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains
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  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3230 Central Coast Escarpment Moist Forest
      • 3144 Craven Grey Box Grassy Forest
      • 3232 Far North Coastal Hills Blackbutt-Ironbark Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3277 Carrai Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3146 Dorrigo Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3278 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
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    • Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3268 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine-Ironbark Moist Forest
      • 3271 Shoalhaven Spotted Gum-Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • 3273 South Coast Lowland Shrub-Grass Forest
      • 3275 South Coast Spotted Gum Cycad Dry Forest
    • Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3295 Crookwell-Taralga Basalt Grassy Forest
      • 3302 Southern Highlands Shale-Basalt Dry Forest
      • 3305 Sydney Montane Basalt Moist Forest
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3136 Blue Gum High Forest
      • 3137 Blue Mountains Enriched Blue Gum Moist Forest
      • 3140 Blue Mountains Sandstone Turpentine Moist Forest
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    • Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3680 Northern Escarpment Ash Wet Shrub Forest