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Large Bent-winged Bat - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerableexternal link
Commonwealth status: Not listedexternal link
Last updated: 14 Oct 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Large Bent-winged Bat is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Bathurst Known None
Bondo Known None
Bungonia Known None
Capertee Uplands Known None
Crookwell Known None
Hill End Known None
Kanangra Known None
Kybeyan-Gourock Known None
Monaro Known None
Murrumbateman Known None
Oberon Known None
Orange Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Large Bent-winged Bat - South Eastern Highlands 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
      • 3472 Bungonia Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3473 Bungonia Slates Shrubby Open Forest
      • 3474 Burragorang Escarpment Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
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    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3422 Clarence Sandstone Rises Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3427 Northern Hinterland Hills Bloodwood-Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3428 Northern Lowland Red Gum-Swamp Turpentine Grassy Forest
    • 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
      • 495 Brittle Gum - Silvertop Stringybark grassy open forest of the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 568 Broad-leaved Stringybark shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3500 Cathedral Rock Granite Peppermint-Gum Forest
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    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3454 Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
      • 983 New England Blackbutt - stringybark grassy forest the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • 3464 Northern Gorges Grey Gum-Tallowwood Grassy Forest
      • 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 506 Black Cypress Pine - White Box - Tumbledown Gum shrubby open forest / woodland mainly in the Mt Kaputar region, Nandewar Bioregion
      • 432 Dwyer's Red Gum - Dirty (Baradine) Gum - cypress pine shrubby woodland of the Narrabri region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 453 Granite gorge Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Oleander Wattle low open woodland in the Warialda region
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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
      • 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
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    • Southern Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3450 Far South Hinterland Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3451 Far South Sheltered Monkey Gum Forest
      • 3452 Southeast Hinterland Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3453 Southeast Scarp Maidens Gum Forest
    • Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 338 Blakely's Red Gum - Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box woodland on Wyangala Granite in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 297 Broad-leaved Peppermint - Nortons Box - Red Stringybark tall open forest on red clay on hills in the southern part of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 285 Broad-leaved Sally grass - sedge woodland on valley flats and swamps in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and adjoining South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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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
      • 3563 Clarence Sandstone Blackbutt-Bloodwood Forest
      • 3569 Clarence Sandstone Stringybark-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3570 Coorabakh Conglomerate Banksia Forest
      • 4161 Mid North Stringybark-Turpentine Shrub Forest
      • 3573 Northern Lowland Scribbly Gum-Bloodwood Forest
    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3672 Carrai-Werrikimbe Blackbutt Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
      • 1617 New England Blackbutt - Diehard Stringybark shrubby open forest on the Northern Tablelands escarpment and Barrington Tops
      • 3679 Northeast New England Ranges Blackbutt Dry Forest
      • 3683 Timbarra Granite Blackbutt Forest
    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 609 Black Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on Mole Granite of the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 502 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on granites of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 503 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum heath shrubland or woodland on granite outcrops of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3638 South Coast Sands Bangalay Forest
    • South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3181 Bega Wet Shrub Forest
      • 3184 Far South Lowland Creekflat Forest
      • 3185 Far South Riverflat Wet Forest
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    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3643 Bungonia Tableland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
      • 3646 Far South Coastal Ranges Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 3648 Far South Hinterland Silvertop Ash Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 652 Apple Box - Eurabbie grassy open forest on sheltered slopes and gullies in the Burrinjuck area, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 653 Apple Box - Yellow Box - Argyle Apple dry open forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 700 Blakely's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine dry shrub forest of the Lower Abercrombie area of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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    • Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3578 Blue Mountains Low Heathy Woodland
      • 3579 Blue Mountains Scribbly Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
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    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3599 Blue Mountains Peppermint Shrub Forest
      • 3601 Burragorang Footslopes Scribbly Gum Forest
      • 3604 Hunter Range Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
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    • Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3687 Newnes Plateau Peppermint-Ash Tall Forest
      • 3688 Newnes Plateau Silvertop Ash Woodland
      • 3689 Shoalhaven Escarpment Peppermint-Silvertop Ash Forest
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    • Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 4162 Elderslie Banksia Scrub
      • 3630 Kurri Sand Heathy Woodland
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 671 Black Cypress Pine - Acacia - Red Ash shrubby woodland of the far northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
      • 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
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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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  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4015 Central Hunter Riparian Forest
      • 4019 Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
      • 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3983 Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 3984 Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
      • 3996 Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4063 Central and Southern Tableland River Oak Forest
      • 4078 Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
      • 4080 Northwest River Oak-Apple Forest
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    • Inland Riverine Forests
      • 78 River Red Gum riparian tall woodland / open forest wetland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 362 Weeping Bottlebrush - Rough-barked Apple riparian low open forest / tall shrubland wetland mainly in the Briglaow Belt South Bioregion
  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
      • 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
      • 3963 Estuarine Reedland
      • 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
      • 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3904 Hunter Coast Grasstree Graminoid Swamp Scrub
      • 3907 Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
      • 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
      • 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
      • 3925 Sydney Sandstone Button Grass Sedgeland
    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3932 Central and Southern Tableland Swamp Meadow Complex
      • 4164 New England Peppermint Swamp Margin Woodland
      • 3944 New England Tableland Carex Fens
      • 3951 Southern Tableland Ranges Boggy Open Woodland
    • Montane Lakes
      • 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands
  • Grasslands
    • Maritime Grasslands
      • 3408 Northern Headland Grassland
    • Temperate Montane Grasslands
      • 896 Kangaroo Grass - Wallaby Grass - Snow Grass moist tussock grassland in the Monaro and the Southern Tablelands regions of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 1288 Wallaby Grass - Kangaroo Grass - Rush - Blown Grass Wet Tussock Grassland Moist Grasslands of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 1289 Wallaby Grass - Red-grass - Tall Speargrass - Kangaroo Grass dry tussock grassland of the North-western and Eastern Southern Tablelands in the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 1692 Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
      • 3315 Central Hunter Ironbark-Spotted Gum Forest
      • 3314 Central Hunter Slopes Grey Box Forest
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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
      • 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
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    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 3351 Armidale Creekflat Snow Gum Woodland-Scrub
      • 498 Black Sallee plateau low woodland in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 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
      • 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 303 Black Sally grassy low woodland in valleys in the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and western South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 703 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
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    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3379 Barrington-Point Lookout Montane Grassy Forest
      • 1191 Snow Gum - Candle Bark woodland on broad valley flats of the tablelands and slopes, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 1196 Snow Gum - Mountain Gum shrubby open forest of montane areas, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and Australian Alps Bioregion
      • 3385 Southern Tableland Creekflat Swamp Woodland
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 722 Brittle Gum - stringybark shrubby open forest on basalt residuals in the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 921 Manna Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grassy woodland/open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
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    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 283 Apple Box - Blakely's Red Gum moist valley and footslopes grass-forb open forest of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 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
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  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
      • 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 3827 Eastern New England Leucogranite Mallee Scrub
      • 3854 New England Rockplate Shrubland
      • 4128 Northern New England Rock Outcrop Shrubland
      • 4129 Timbarra Granite Rockplate Shrubland
      • 4130 Warra Rockplate Shrubland
    • South Coast Heaths
      • 3816 Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath
    • Southern Montane Heaths
      • 3871 Far Southeast Mountain Skeletal Rockplate Scrub
      • 3876 Kybeyan Montane Heath
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 4127 Colo Plateau Dwarf Apple Heath-Woodland
      • 3807 Northern Sydney Heath-Mallee
      • 3808 Northern Sydney Sandstone Rockplate Shrubland
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    • Sydney Montane Heaths
      • 636 Allocasuarina nana heathland at Genowlan Point, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 3861 Morton Plateau Rocky Heath-Woodland
    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3799 Agnes Banks Woodland
      • 3801 Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
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  • Rainforests
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • 627 Coobah - Rusty Fig low woodland on limestone outcrops in the Tamworth - Attunga region of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 3110 Greater Sydney Enriched Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
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    • Littoral Rainforests
      • 3122 Far North Littoral Rainforest
      • 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
      • 4113 Far Southeast Littoral Rainforest
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    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3025 Central Coast Gallery Rainforest
      • 3028 Illawarra Escarpment Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 1529 Lilly Pilly - Coachwood gully warm temperate rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
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    • Southern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3045 South Coast Temperate Gully Rainforest
    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 3003 Border Ranges Black Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3121 Broken Head Lowland Rainforest
      • 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
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    • Western Vine Thickets
      • 378 Belah - Wilga +/- White Box dry viney scrub woodland the NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 445 Brigalow viney scrub open forest on loamy soils in low hill landscapes in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 442 Carbeen tall open woodland - Mock Olive tall closed vine thicket on basalt hills in the Northern Basalt sub-region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Saline wetlands
    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
      • 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
      • 4097 Samphire Saltmarsh
      • 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh
  • 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
      • 376 Mixed scrub low open woodland on sand rises and dunes on floodplains in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 227 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple woodland on alluvial terraces in central-north NSW
    • Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
      • 192 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Poplar Box +/- Ironwood shrub - grass woodland on rises in the north-western plains of NSW
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Montane Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3306 Kosciuszko Alpine Ash High Wet Forest
      • 3309 Kosciuszko Western Flanks Moist Shrub Forest
      • 3307 Kosciuszko-Namadgi Alpine Ash Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3311 Southeast Escarpment Ash Forest
    • 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
      • 3278 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • 3279 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Forest
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    • Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3266 Nattai-Morton Sandstone Peppermint Gully Forest
      • 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
      • 3270 Shoalhaven Lowland Wet Gully Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3294 Central Tableland Peppermint-Gum Montane Forest
      • 3303 Central Tableland Ribbon Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3297 Kosciuszko Snow Gum-Mountain Gum Moist Forest
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  • 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
      • 931 Messmate - Mountain Gum tall moist forest of the far southern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1574 Messmate grassy tall open forest on Barrington and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • 3202 Mid North Escarpment Ranges Blackbutt Forest
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    • Southern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3209 Blue Mountains Basalt Cap Forest
      • 3211 Central Tableland Montane Wet Forest
      • 3212 Far South Escarpment Damp Flats Forest
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