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Threatened species

Eastern Coastal Free-tailed Bat - Sydney Basin: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Micronomus norfolkensis
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 04 Mar 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Eastern Coastal Free-tailed Bat is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Burragorang Known None
Cumberland Known None
Ettrema Known None
Hunter Known None
Illawarra Known None
Jervis Known None
Kerrabee Known None
Moss Vale Known None
Pittwater Known None
Sydney Cataract Known None
Wollemi Known None
Wyong Known None
Yengo Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Eastern Coastal Free-tailed Bat - Sydney Basin 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
      • 3475 Burragorang Escarpment Ironbark Forest
      • 3484 Burragorang Gorges Red Gum-Ironbark Sheltered Forest
      • 3509 Capertee Escarpment Slaty Gum-Ironbark Forest
      • 3483 Central Gorges Box-Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3490 Hunter Valley Footslopes Slaty Gum Forest
    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 4118 Clarence Gorges Silver-leaved Ironbark Forest
      • 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
    • 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
      • 3435 Hunter Coast Lowland Flats Damp Forest
      • 3437 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Dry Forest
      • 3436 Hunter Coast Sandy Creekflat Low Paperbark Scrub
      • 3434 Hunter Coast White Mahogany Low Forest
      • 3438 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Ironbark Forest
      • 4157 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Singleton Mallee
      • 3439 Hunter Escarpment Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 4158 Hunter Escarpment Pokolbin Ironbark Woodland
      • 3442 Lower Hunter Lowland Ironbark-Paperbark Forest
      • 3443 Lower Hunter Spotted Gum Scrubby Transition Forest
      • 3444 Lower Hunter Spotted Gum-Ironbark Forest
      • 3446 Lower North Foothills Ironbark-Box-Gum Grassy Forest
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    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 983 New England Blackbutt - stringybark grassy forest the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 1605 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Native Olive shrubby open forest of the central and upper Hunter
      • 394 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress pine woodland on slopes and flats in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga Scrub regions
    • Southern Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3451 Far South Sheltered Monkey Gum Forest
  • 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
      • 3548 Far North Sands Scribbly Gum Heathy Forest
      • 3549 Lower North Sandplain Heathy Forest
      • 3551 Northern Sands Blackbutt-Red Mahogany Forest
      • 3553 Northern Sands Bloodwood-Swamp Turpentine Forest
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    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3564 Clarence Sandstone Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
      • 3572 Koonyum Range Rhyolite Outcrop Shrub Woodland
      • 4160 Mid North Conglomerate Blackbutt Shrub Forest
      • 4161 Mid North Stringybark-Turpentine Shrub Forest
      • 4159 Nightcap Rhyolite Rocky Red Gum Woodland
      • 3573 Northern Lowland Scribbly Gum-Bloodwood Forest
      • 3577 Yuraygir Range Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
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    • South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3638 South Coast Sands Bangalay Forest
    • South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3108 South Coast Scarp Wet Vine Forest
    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3654 Shoalhaven Lowland Bloodwood Shrub Forest
      • 3659 South Coast Hinterland Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 3660 South Coast Hinterland Yellow Stringybark Forest
      • 3661 South Coast Hinterland Yertchuk Forest
      • 3662 South Coast Lowland Blackbutt Forest
      • 3300 Southeast Escarpment Peaks Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3665 Southeast Hinterland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
      • 3667 Southern Highlands Enriched Sandstone Forest
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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
      • 3582 Hunter Coast Lowland Apple-Bloodwood Forest
      • 3583 Hunter Coast Lowland Scribbly Gum Forest
      • 3586 Northern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3587 Pearl Beach Sand Forest
      • 3588 Shoalhaven Foothills Bloodwood Heathy Forest
      • 3591 Southern Sydney Sheltered Forest
      • 3592 Sydney Coastal Enriched Sandstone Forest
      • 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
      • 3595 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Gully Forest
      • 3596 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Forest
      • 3598 Woronora Plateau Scribbly Gum Woodland
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    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3601 Burragorang Footslopes Scribbly Gum Forest
      • 3604 Hunter Range Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 3605 Hunter Range Ironbark Forest
      • 3610 Lower Hunter Yellow Bloodwood Forest
      • 3615 Sydney Hinterland Apple-Blackbutt Gully Forest
      • 3619 Sydney Hinterland Enriched Sandstone Bloodwood Forest
      • 3616 Sydney Hinterland Grey Gum Transition Forest
      • 3617 Sydney Hinterland Peppermint-Apple Forest
      • 3618 Sydney Hinterland Sandflat Peppermint Forest
      • 3620 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine Sheltered Forest
      • 3621 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine-Apple Gully Forest
      • 3622 Sydney Hinterland Yellow Bloodwood Woodland
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    • Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3694 Upper Blue Mountains Ridgetop Woodland
    • Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 4162 Elderslie Banksia Scrub
      • 3630 Kurri Sand Heathy Woodland
      • 3631 Kurri Sand-Clay Woodland
      • 3633 Mellong Sand Swamp Woodland
      • 3634 Quorrobolong Sand Flats Forest
      • 3636 Warkworth Sands Woodland
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 712 Blue-leaved Ironbark - pine shrubby open forest on hills in the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 863 Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Inland Scribbly Gum shrubby open forest of the western Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 889 Inland Scribbly Gum - Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest on hills of western Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 1176 Slaty Box - Grey Gum shrubby woodland on footslopes of the upper Hunter Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4015 Central Hunter Riparian Forest
      • 4019 Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
      • 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
      • 4021 Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
      • 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
      • 4024 Cumberland Blue Box Riverflat Forest
      • 4025 Cumberland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
      • 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4028 Estuarine Swamp Oak Twig-rush Forest
      • 4027 Estuarine Swamp Oak-Mangrove Forest
      • 4034 Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
      • 4036 Hunter Coast Lake Flats Apple Forest
      • 4039 Hunter Range Creekflat Apple-Red Gum Forest
      • 4042 Lower North Riverflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Forest
      • 924 Melaleuca linariifolia alluvial melaleuca thicket of the lower Blue Mountains and Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 4049 South Coast Floodplain Grassy Swamp Forest
      • 4058 Sydney Hinterland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
      • 4059 Sydney Hinterland Sandy Creekflat Shrub 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
      • 3996 Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
      • 3986 Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
      • 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
      • 3995 Hunter Coast Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Forest
      • 3998 Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
      • 4156 Maroota Sands Swamp Forest
      • 4000 Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
      • 4001 Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • 4002 Northern Lowland Orange Gum Dry Swamp Forest
      • 4003 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Mahogany Forest
      • 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
      • 4006 Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
      • 4009 Shoalhaven Lowland Flats Wet Swamp Forest
      • 4012 Tomago Drooping Red Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 4013 Wyong Paperbark-Woollybutt Swamp Forest
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4070 Far North River Oak Wet Forest
      • 4073 Lower North Hinterland River Oak Forest
      • 4078 Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
      • 42 River Red Gum / River Oak riparian woodland wetland in the Hunter Valley
      • 1127 Sandstone cliff-face soak
      • 4084 Southern Escarpment River Oak Forest
      • 4086 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Scrub
      • 1270 Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelands
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  • 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
      • 3908 Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
      • 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath
      • 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
      • 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3932 Central and Southern Tableland Swamp Meadow Complex
  • 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
      • 3318 Cumberland Moist Shale Woodland
      • 3319 Cumberland Shale Hills Woodland
      • 3320 Cumberland Shale Plains Woodland
      • 3321 Cumberland Shale-Sandstone Ironbark Forest
      • 3322 Far North Ranges Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3327 Illawarra Lowland Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 1603 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bull Oak - Grey Box shrub - grass open forest of the central and lower Hunter
      • 1604 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Box - Spotted Gum shrub - grass woodland of the central and lower Hunter
      • 1691 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Box grassy woodland of the central and upper Hunter
      • 3329 Northern Hinterland Valleys Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 4052 South Coast Low Hills Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3330 South Coast Lowland Woollybutt Grassy Forest
      • 3332 Southeast Lowland Grassy Woodland
      • 3334 Western Hunter Flats Red Gum Sedge Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 731 Broad-leaved Peppermint - Red Stringybark grassy open forest on undulating hills, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3379 Barrington-Point Lookout Montane Grassy Forest
    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 3485 Central Hunter Slaty Gum Grassy Forest
      • 851 Grey Box - grass tree - spinifex woodland on limestone hills of the western Hunter and Capertee Valleys, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 1303 White Box - Grey Gum - Kurrajong grassy woodland on slopes of the northern Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 1304 White Box - Narrow-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 4127 Colo Plateau Dwarf Apple Heath-Woodland
      • 3807 Northern Sydney Heath-Mallee
      • 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
      • 3813 Sydney Hinterland Dwarf Apple Low Woodland
      • 3814 Woronora Plateau Heath-Mallee
    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3799 Agnes Banks Woodland
      • 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
      • 1540 Grey Myrtle - Grey Gum gully dry rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 1539 Grey Myrtle sheltered gully dry rainforest in gullies of the Sydney Basin
      • 3074 Hunter Coast Lowland Grey Myrtle Wet Forest
      • 3077 Illawarra Complex Dry Rainforest
      • 3091 Lower North Waterhousea-Water Gum Rainforest
      • 1543 Rusty Fig - Native Quince - Native Olive dry rainforest of the Central Hunter Valley
      • 3111 Sydney Hinterland Grey Myrtle Riparian Forest
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    • Littoral Rainforests
      • 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
      • 3131 Myall-Wallis Lakes Littoral Rainforest
      • 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
      • 3133 Sydney Coast Tuckeroo Littoral Rainforest
    • 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
      • 3029 Lower North Wet Gully Palm Rainforest
      • 4107 Mid North Escarpment Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
      • 3035 Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 1531 Sassafras - Grey Possumwood warm temperate rainforest of the New England escarpment
      • 1523 Sassafras - Prickly Ash - Lilly Pilly warm temperate rainforest on ranges of the Barrington Tops and lower North Coast
      • 3038 Sydney Coastal Coachwood Gallery Rainforest
      • 3040 Sydney Coastal Foreshores Gully Rainforest
      • 3039 Sydney Coastal Lilly Pilly-Palm Gallery Rainforest
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    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 3003 Border Ranges Black Booyong Subtropical 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
      • 3036 South Coast Warm Temperate-Subtropical Rainforest
  • 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
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3230 Central Coast Escarpment Moist Forest
      • 3232 Far North Coastal Hills Blackbutt-Ironbark Forest
      • 3234 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • 3237 Hunter Range Blue Gum Gully Forest
      • 3238 Hunter Range Colluvial Apple-Gum Forest
      • 3239 Hunter Range Sheltered Grey Gum Forest
      • 4109 Lower Hunter Screeslope Wet Forest
      • 3242 Lower North Ranges Turpentine Moist Forest
      • 3244 Lower North Spotted Gum-Mahogany-Ironbark Sheltered Forest
      • 3241 Lower North White Mahogany-Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • 3247 North Brother Rocky Slopes Moist Forest
      • 3248 Northern Blackbutt-Turpentine Shrub Forest
      • 3249 Northern Bloodwood-Ironbark Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3250 Northern Foothills Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • 3251 Northern Gorges Diverse Grassy 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
      • 3258 Sydney Basin Creekflat Blue Gum-Apple Forest
      • 3259 Sydney Coastal Shale-Sandstone Forest
      • 3261 Sydney Sandstone Plateau Shale Forest
      • 3262 Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest
      • 3263 Watagan Range Turpentine-Mahogany Grassy Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3287 Northern Escarpment Messmate Cool Wet Forest
      • 3288 Northern Escarpment Messmate Moist Grassy Forest
    • Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3266 Nattai-Morton Sandstone Peppermint Gully Forest
      • 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
      • 3270 Shoalhaven Lowland Wet Gully Forest
      • 3271 Shoalhaven Spotted Gum-Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • 3272 South Coast Lowland Creekflat Forest
      • 3273 South Coast Lowland Shrub-Grass Forest
      • 3275 South Coast Spotted Gum Cycad Dry Forest
      • 3274 South Coast Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • 3276 South Coast Stringybark Cycad Exposed Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3301 Southeast Tableland Ranges Snow Gum Sheltered 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
      • 3139 Border Ranges Brush Box-Tallowwood Wet Forest
      • 3145 Cumberland Bangalay x Blue Gum Riverflat Forest
      • 3147 Far North Brush Box-Bloodwood Wet Forest
      • 3150 Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3154 Illawarra Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • 3153 Illawarra Escarpment Bangalay x Blue Gum Wet Forest
      • 4115 Koonyum Range Rhyolite Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3158 Lower North Foothills Turpentine-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • 3087 Lower North Ranges Riparian Turpentine Forest
      • 3160 Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
      • 1575 Messmate - Forest Ribbon Gum - New England Blackbutt shrub - grass tall open forest of Barrington Tops and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • 3166 Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest
      • 3102 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3171 Northern Lowland Viney Wet Forest
      • 3172 Northern Ranges Brush Box-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • 3173 Northern Ranges Dunns Gum-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3174 Northern Turpentine-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 1563 Sydney Blue Gum – New England Blackbutt - Whitetop Box moist shrub – grass tall open forest of the lower North Coast
      • 3176 Sydney Enriched Sandstone 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
      • 1577 New England Blackbutt - Forest Ribbon Gum grassy tall open forest of the Northern Tablelands escarpment