The Weeping Myall Woodlands is an endangered ecological community, under the
EPBC Act of the Commonwealth of Australia.
It is found in inland
Queensland
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and inland
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on alluvial plains west of the
Great Dividing Range
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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
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it is also listed as an endangered ecological community, first under the ''NSW
Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995
The ''Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (TSC Act)'' was enacted by the Parliament of New South Wales in 1995 to protect threatened species, populations and ecological communities in NSW. In 2016 it was replaced by the '' Biodiversity Co ...
'' and now under the ''
Biodiversity Act of 2016''.
Distribution
It occurs in the
IBRA regions
The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) is a biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population, and Communities. It was devel ...
of
Riverina
The Riverina
is an agricultural region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The Riverina is distinguished from other Australian regions by the combination of flat plains, warm to hot climate and an ample supply of water for irrigation ...
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NSW South Western Slopes,
Darling Riverine Plains
The Darling Riverine Plains is an interim Australian bioregion located in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. It has an area of . South Eastern Queensland bioregion is part of the Southeast Australia temperate savanna ecoregion.
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Brigalow Belt South
The Brigalow Belt is a wide band of acacia-wooded grassland that runs between tropical rainforest of the coast and the semi-arid interior of Queensland, Australia. The
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) divides the Bri ...
,
Brigalow Belt North
The Brigalow Belt is a wide band of acacia-wooded grassland that runs between tropical rainforest of the coast and the semi-arid interior of Queensland, Australia. The
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) divides the Bri ...
,
Murray-Darling Depression,
Nandewar
Nandewar (code NAN), an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion, is located in New South Wales and Queensland, and comprises an area of , surrounded by the Brigalow Belt South to the west, south-west and ...
and
Cobar Peneplain, in small pockets.
Species listed
Leiocarpa panaetioides DSC 5077.jpg, ''Leiocarpa panaetioides
''Leiocarpa'' is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Australia.
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References
External links
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Gnaphalieae
Asteraceae genera
Flora of Australia
Taxa named by Paul G. Wilson
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Rosewood leaves IMG 20190610 130441.jpg, ''Alectryon oleifolius
''Alectryon oleifolius'', commonly known as boonaree, inland rosewood or bullock bush (South Australia), is a species of small tree of the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native to Australia.
Taxonomy
The French botanist René Louiche Desfontain ...
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Myoporum montanum DSC 5080.jpg, ''Myoporum montanum
''Myoporum montanum'', commonly known as waterbush or boobialla, is a shrub native to Australia, New Guinea and Timor. The species is extremely variable in size growth habit and leaf form, with three primary forms recognised. Its occurrence in m ...
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Capparis lasiantha DSC 5113.jpg, '' Capparis lasiantha'' in front of Warrior Bush, '' Apophylla anomalum'', and both under a weeping myall, '' Acacia pendula''.
Cases in NSW involving Weeping Myall Woodlands
# Plath v Hunter Valley Property Management Pty Limited - NSW Caselaw (concerned the destruction of a
Weeping Myall community in the Hunter Valley)
#Chief Executive, Office of Environment and Heritage v Traikaero Pty Ltd; Chief Executive, Office of Environment and Heritage v Woods - NSW Caselaw
References
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Endangered ecological communities