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Australian endangered ecological community

The Weeping Myall Woodlands is an endangered ecological community, under the EPBC Act of the Commonwealth of Australia. It is found in inland Queensland and inland New South Wales, on alluvial plains west of the Great Dividing Range. It takes its name from Acacia pendula, the weeping myall.

The Weeping Myall woodlands ecological community in New South Wales has been named as the Myall Woodland in the Darling Riverine Plains, Brigalow Belt South, Cobar Peneplain, Murray-Darling Depression, Riverina and NSW South Western Slopes bioregions.

Conservation status

This ecological community has been listed as endangered under the Commonwealth EPBC Act since 7 January 2009. The key threats are clearing and ongoing degradation since this ecological community occurs on highly fertile and arable soils. Other threats are overgrazing and weed invasion.

In New South Wales it is also listed as an endangered ecological community, first under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and now under the Biodiversity Act of 2016.

Distribution

It occurs in the IBRA regions of Riverina, NSW South Western Slopes, Darling Riverine Plains, Brigalow Belt South, Brigalow Belt North, Murray-Darling Depression, Nandewar and Cobar Peneplain, in small pockets.

Species listed

Species listed as occurring in the NSW EEC Weeping Myall Woodlands
  1. Acacia homalophylla
  2. Acacia oswaldii
  3. Acacia pendula
  4. Acacia victoriae
  5. Alectryon oleifolius
  6. Alternanthera denticulata
  7. Amaranthus macrocarpus
  8. Amyema quandang
  9. Apophyllum anomalum
  10. Arthropodium minus
  11. Asperula conferta
  12. Astrebla lappacea
  13. Astrebla pectinata
  14. Atalaya hemiglauca
  15. Atriplex leptocarpa
  16. Atriplex nummularia
  17. Atriplex semibaccata
  18. Atriplex spinibractea
  19. Austrodanthonia caespitosa
  20. Austrodanthonia setacea
  21. Austrostipa aristiglumis
  1. Austrostipa scabra
  2. Boerhavia dominii
  3. Brachyscome lineariloba
  4. Calocephalus sonderi
  5. Calotis hispidula
  6. Calotis scabiosifolia
  7. Capparis lasiantha
  8. Capparis mitchellii
  9. Casuarina cristata
  10. Centipeda cunninghamii
  11. Chloris truncata
  12. Chrysocephalum apiculatum
  13. Convolvulus erubescens
  14. Dactyloctenium radulans
  15. Daucus glochidiatus
  16. Dichanthium sericeum
  17. Diplachne fusca
  18. Einadia nutans
  19. Enchylaena tomentosa
  20. Enteropogon acicularis
  21. Eragrostis parviflora
  1. Eremophila bignoniiflora
  2. Eremophila maculata
  3. Eriochloa sp.
  4. Exocarpos aphyllus
  5. Goodenia glauca
  6. Goodenia pusilliflora
  7. Homopholis proluta
  8. Hypoxis pusilla
  9. Iseilema membranaceum
  10. Isoetopsis graminifolia
  11. Ixiolaena leptolepis
  12. Maireana aphylla
  13. Maireana ciliata
  14. Maireana decalvans
  15. Maireana excavata
  16. Maireana pentagona
  17. Marsilea drummondii
  18. Myoporum montanum
  19. Myriocephalus rhizocephalus
  20. Nitraria billardierei
  21. Oxalis perennans
  1. Panicum decompositum
  2. Plantago varia (complex)
  3. Poa fordeana
  4. Portulaca oleracea
  5. Rhagodia spinescens
  6. Rhodanthe corymbiflora
  7. Rhodanthe floribunda
  8. Rhodanthe pygmaea
  9. Salsola kali
  10. Scerolaena brachyptera
  11. Sclerolaena muricata
  12. Sclerolaena stelligera
  13. Sida corrugata
  14. Sida trichopoda
  15. Solanum esuriale
  16. Sporobolus caroli
  17. Swainsona procumbens
  18. Teucrium racemosum
  19. Tribulus terrestris
  20. Triptilodiscus pygmaeus
  21. Vittadinia cuneata

Cases in NSW involving Weeping Myall Woodlands

  1. Plath v Hunter Valley Property Management Pty Limited - NSW Caselaw (concerned the destruction of a Weeping Myall community in the Hunter Valley)
  2. Chief Executive, Office of Environment and Heritage v Traikaero Pty Ltd; Chief Executive, Office of Environment and Heritage v Woods - NSW Caselaw

References

  1. ^ Commonwealth of Australia, Department of the Environment. "Threatened Ecological Community Profile — Weeping Myall Woodlands". www.environment.gov.au. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  2. ^ Threatened Species Scientific Committee (17 December 2008), Approved Conservation Advice for Weeping Myall Woodlands ecological community (PDF)
  3. ^ "Myall Woodland in the Darling Riverine Plains, Brigalow Belt South, Cobar Peneplain, Murray-Darling Depression, Riverina and NSW South Western Slopes bioregions - profile | NSW Environment, Energy and Science". www.environment.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. NSW Scientific committee (5 April 2019). "Myall Woodland in the Darling Riverine Plains, Brigalow Belt South, Cobar Peneplain, Murray-Darling Depression, Riverina and NSW South Western Slopes bioregions - endangered ecological community listing: final determination | NSW Environment & Heritage". Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  5. "Plath v Hunter Valley Property Management Pty Limited - NSW Caselaw". www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  6. "Chief Executive, Office of Environment and Heritage v Traikaero Pty Ltd; Chief Executive, Office of Environment and Heritage v Woods - NSW Caselaw". www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
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