Endangered Ecological Communities in Ku-ring-gai

Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest

Description Turpentine-Ironbark Forest (STIF) is a medium to tall open forest, dominated by tree species including Turpentine (), Blackbutt ( pilularis) and Smooth-barked Apple (). In Ku-ring-gai it is found along Mona Vale Road, St. Ives, the southern end of Fox Valley Road and Bicentennial Park. Found along ridgelines and slopes on shale and shale-enriched sandstone soils. Seeds locked in this soil are the source of future generations of . Protection and Threats STIF is protected as an Endangered Ecological Community, under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and a Critically Endangered Ecological Community under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Threats to this community include: clearing along ridgelines, small-scale residential clearing, nutrient enrichment, weed invasion, garden escapes, recreational damage and rubbish dumping. Fragmentation of the forest also creates challenges for regeneration. Wildlife This forest provides layers of habitat for wildlife, with mature trees providing nest hollows for ’s largest owl - the Powerful Owl and also for the Glossy Black-Cockatoo. What can you do? There’s lots you can do to help preserve STIF: Only 0.5% of the original • Join a Bushcare group Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark • Keep your pets under control and report any fox sightings to us Forest remains in Ku-ring-gai • Never dump rubbish in bushland - penalties apply • Remove weeds from your garden to stop them spreading • Install a raingarden to manage stormwater • If you live near this forest community you can some of the forest’s native species in your garden to help attract birds, mammals and butterflies (see list over) For further information • Visit the NSW Office of Environment & Heritage website Species List Canopy trees Shrubs Ground layer - graminoids Ground layer - ferns & herbs Climbers Common Name Botanical Name Common Name Botanical Name Common Name Botanical Name Common Name Botanical Name Common Name White Sally; Threeawn Blechnum Billardiera Angophora costata Sydney Red Gum Acacia floribunda Aristida vagans Gristle Fern Hairy Apple Berry Gossamer Wattle Speargrass cartilagineum scandens Angophora Rough-Barked Sydney Golden Austrodanthonia Slender Wallaby Brunoniella Acacia longifolia Blue Trumpet Cassytha species Devil's Twine floribunda Apple Wattle racemosa Grass australis Corymbia Austrodanthonia East Coast Cayratia Red Bloodwood Acacia terminalis Sunshine Wattle Calochlaena dubia Rainbow Fern Native Grape gummifera. tenuior Wallaby Grass clematidea Eucalyptus Veined Spear- White Mahogany Acacia ulicifolia Prickly Moses Austrostipa rudis Centella asiatica Indian Pennywort Clematis species Headache Vine acmenoides Grass Eucalyptus Breynia Bothriochloa Red Grass; Redleg Native Wandering White Stringybark Coffee Bush erecta Bonnet Orchid Commelina cyanea globoidea oblongifolia decipiens Grass Jew Eucalyptus Blackthorn, Eustrephus Grey Ironbark Bursaria spinosa Carex inversa Knob Sedge Cyathea australis Black Tree-Fern Wombat Berry paniculata Boxthorn latifolius Large Hop Desmodium Geitonoplesium Eucalyptus pilularis Blackbutt Dodonaea triquetra Cyperus gracilis Slender Flat-Sedge Tick-Trefoil Scrambling Lily Bush rhytidophyllum cymosum Eucalyptus Rough Guinea Dichelachne Desmodium Slender Tick- Glycine Red Mahogany aspera Plume Grass Twining Glycine resinifera Flower micrantha varians Trefoil clandestina Dichelachne Glycine Sydney Blue Gum Indigofera australis Australian Indigo Plume Grass Dianella caerulea Tufted Lily Small-Leaf Glycine species microphylla Syncarpia Echinopogon Tufted Hedgehog Turpentine Kunzea ambigua Tick Bush Dianella longifolia Blueberry Lily Glycine tabacina Variable Glycine glomulifera caespitosus Grass Leucopogon Prickly Beard Echinopogon Forest Hedgehog Hardenbergia Purle Coral Pea; Smaller trees Dichondra Repens Kidney Weed Botanical Name Common Name juniperinus Heath ovatus Grass Violacea False Sarsparilla Entolasia Margined Panic Euchiton Climbing Guinea Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle Maytenus silvestris Orange Bush Star Cudweed Hibbertia Dentata marginata Grass Sphaericus Flower Acacia Galium Kennedia Parramatta Wattle Notelaea longifolia Large Mock Olive Entolasia stricta Wiry Panic Grass Rough Bedstraw Dusky Coral Pea parramattenis gaudichaudii rubicunda Allocasuarina Omalanthus Bleeding Heart; Geranium Morinda Black She-Oak Eragrostis brownii Brown's Lovegrass Northern Cranesbill Sweet Morinda littoralis populifolius Native Poplar homeanum jasminoides Allocasuarina Ozothamnus Rice Flower; Sago Imperata cylindrica Goodenia Pandorea Wonga Wonga Forest She-Oak Blady Grass Forest Goodenia torulosa diosmifolius Bush var. major hederacea pandorana Vine Ceratopetalum NSW Christmas Pittosporum Wild Yellow Lepidosperma Variable Lindsaea linearis Screw Fern glyciphylla Sweet Sarsaparilla gummiferum Bush revolutum Jasmine laterale Swordsedge Elaeocarpus Platylobium Handsome Flat Opercularia Stephania japonica Blueberry Ash Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat Rush Snake Vine reticulatus formosum Pea diphylla var. discolor. Exocarpos Cherry Ballart; Polyscias Lomandra Spiny-Headed Mat Grassland Elderberry Panax Oxalis perennans barbata Bearded Tylophora cupressiformis Native Cherry sambucifolia longifolia Rush Sorrel Omalanthus Bleeding Heart; Lomandra Many-Flowered Billardiera Pultenaea flexilis Graceful Bush-Pea Plantago debilis Shade Plantain Hairy Apple Berry populifolius Native Poplar multiflora Mat Rush scandens Pittosporum Microlaena Poranthera Mock Orange pilosa Woolly Xanthosia Weeping Grass Small Poranthera undulatum stipoides microphylla Tristaniopsis Oplismenus Creeping Beard Pratia Water Gum Zieria smithii Sandfly Zieria Whiteroot laurina aemulus Grass purpurascens Oplismenus Creeping Beard Pseuderanthemum Pastel Flower imbecillus Grass variabile Pteridium Panicum simile Two-Colour Panic Common Bracken esculentum Nodding Poa affinis Pterostylis nutans Greenhood Kangaroo Grass Themeda australis Trailing Speedwell

Wahlenbergia Sprawling Bluebell gracilis

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