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Threatened species

Small Purple-pea - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Swainsona recta
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Last updated: 28 Apr 2022

Distribution of the species within this region

The Small Purple-pea 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
Capertee Uplands Predicted None
Hill End Known None
Monaro Known None
Murrumbateman Known None
Orange Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Small Purple-pea - 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.

  • Grasslands
    • Temperate Montane Grasslands
      • 797 Derived grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion
      • 3413 Monaro Kangaroo Grass Woodland-Grassland Complex
      • 3415 Southern Tableland Red Grass-Spear Grass Grassland
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
      • 76 Western Grey Box tall grassy woodland on alluvial loam and clay soils in the NSW South Western Slopes and Riverina Bioregions
    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 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
      • 3370 Central Tableland Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
      • 3373 Goulburn Tableland Box-Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3375 Monaro-Queanbeyan Rolling Hills Grassy Forest
      • 3376 Southern Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
      • 1330 Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodland on the tablelands, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 312 Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on valley flats in the upper slopes of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 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
      • 277 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 395 Derived speargrass - wallaby grass - wire grass mixed forb grassland mainly in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga - Coolah region
      • 201 Fuzzy Box Woodland on alluvial brown loam soils mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 202 Fuzzy Box woodland on colluvium and alluvial flats in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion (including Pilliga) and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 275 Herbaceous White Box - Apple Box valley woodland of the NSW central western slopes
      • 3395 Northwest Elevated White Box Woodland
      • 426 Red Box - White Box +/- Red Stringybark hill woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 284 Red Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum - tea tree herbaceous swampy valley open forest of the southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 3399 Southwest Hills White Box-Blakelys Red Gum Forest
      • 268 White Box - Blakely's Red Gum - Long-leaved Box - Nortons Box - Red Stringybark grass-shrub woodland on shallow soils on hills in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 267 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Western Grey Box shrub/grass/forb woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 434 White Box grass shrub hill woodland on clay to loam soils on volcanic and sedimentary hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 266 White Box grassy woodland in the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 1383 White Box grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1329 Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 276 Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on alluvium or parna loams and clays on flats in NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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