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WESTERN SYDNEY DRY RAINFOREST

Conservation status Where it is found in Fairfield Listed as endangered under the NSW The most intact patches of Western Sydney Threatened Species and Conservation Act 1995 Dry Rainforest in Fairfield are located at and and critically endangered under the near Calmsley Hill Farm in the west of the Commonwealth Environment Protection and City. Small relics of a riparian form of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 where community occur on protected steeper banks listed together with Moist Shale Woodland. The along Cabramatta Creek (e.g. Irelands community is poorly conserved with most Bridges Reserve) and parts of Prospect patches less than 2 ha in size and on private Creek (e.g. at the back of Fairfield High land. School). Distribution Threatened Species found in this Community Associated with gullies and steep sheltered The endangered species Cynanchum slopes in hilly areas of the Razorback Range in elegans (White-flowered Wax ) can southern parts of the Cumberland Plain. occur within this community. Regionally rare Elsewhere it occurs sporadically in higher species include: Alectryon subcinereus rainfall areas at Crescent Reach, Cattai and (Native Quince), Sicyos australis, Maclura Kurrajong in the north and on the steeper hill cochinchensis (Cockspur Thorn), slopes of Western Sydney Regional Park. Soils Aphanopetalum resinosum Gum Vine and are fertile clay derived from Wianamatta Shale. Streblus brunonianus (Whale Bone). Western Sydney Dry Rainforest is classified as a low closed forest often with taller emergent trees such as tereticornis (Forest Red Gum) and Angophora floribunda (Rough- barked Apple). Prickly-leaved Paperbark Melaleuca styphelioides and Rusty Fig Ficus rubiginosa are often dominant canopy species. Typical native small tree and shrub species include Hickory Wattle Acacia implexa, Native Quince Alectryon subcinereus, Native Violet Hymenanthera dentata and Muttonwood Myrsine variabilis. The understorey contains moisture-loving herbs, ferns, sedges and vines, the latter often forming dense thickets.

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Shrubs Pratia purpurascens Species list Abutilon oxycarpum Pseuderanthemum variabile Breynia oblongifolia Pteridium esculentum Canopy Bursaria spinosa Pteris tremula Corymbia maculata Celastrus australis Pyrrosia rupestris Ehretia acuminata Citriobatus pauciflorus Rumex brownii Eucalyptus crebra Einadia hastata Scutellaria humilis Eucalyptus moluccana Melicytisus dentatus Senecio hispidulus var. hispidulus Eucalyptus tereticornis longifolia forma longifolia Senecio linearifolius Melaleuca styphelioides Notelaea venosa Senecio quadridentatus Melicope micrococca Olearia viscidula Senna clavigera Streblus brunonianus Phyllanthus gunnii Sigesbeckia orientalis subsp. orientalis Pittosporum revolutum Solanum brownii Small trees Polyscias sambucifolia subsp. A Solanum prinophyllum Acacia elata Psychotria loniceroides Solanum pungetium Acacia implexa Rapanea variabilis Solanum stelligerum Acacia maidenii Trema aspera Stellaria flaccida Acacia parramattensis Stypandra glauca Allocasuarina torulosa Herbs, ferns & sedges Urtica incisa Alphitonia excelsa Adiantum aethiopicum Wahlenbergia gracilis Backhousia myrtifolia Arthropodium milleflorum Brachychiton populneus Asplenium flabellifolium Vines/twiners Callistemon salignus Brunoniella australis Aphanopetalum resinosum Clerodendrum tomentosum Carex inversa Cayratia clematidea Croton verreauxii Carex longebrachiata Cissus antarctica Diospyros australis Cheilanthes distans Clematis aristata Exocarpos cupressiformis Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi Clematis glycinoides var. glycinoides Ficus rubiginosa Commelina cyanea Convolvulus erubescens Guioa semiglauca Cyperus enervis Cynanchum elegans Melia azedarach var. australasica Cyperus gracilis Deeringia amaranthoides Cyperus imbecillis Desmodium brachypodum Grasses Cyperus laevis Desmodium varians Austrostipa ramosissima Dianella longifolia Eustrephus latifolius Cymbopogon refractus Dichondra repens Geitonoplesium cymosum Echinopogon caespitosus var. Doodia aspera Glycine clandestina caespitosus Doodia caudata var. caudata Glycine sp. A Echinopogon ovatus Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Glycine tabacina Entolasia marginata Einadia trigonos subsp. trigonos Hardenbergia violacea Eragrostis leptostachya Euchiton sphaericus Kennedia rubicunda Imperata cylindrica var. major Galium binifolium Legnephora moorei Microlaena stipoides var. stipoides Galium migrans Maclura cochinchinensis Oplismenus aemulus Galium propinquum Marsdenia flavescens Oplismenus imbecillis Geranium homeanum Marsdenia rostrata Paspalidium criniforme Geranium solanderi var. solanderi Marsdenia viridiflora Poa affinis Hydrocotyle tripartita Morinda jasminoides Poa labillardieri Juncus usitatus Pandorea pandorana Rytidosperma racemosum Mentha satureioides Parsonsia straminea Nyssanthes erecta Passiflora herbertiana subsp. herbertiana References: Omalanthus populifolius Ripogonum album Omalanthus stillingiifolius Rubus parvifolius Department of Environment & Heritage Oxalis perennans Rubus ulmifolius (2016) Western Sydney Dry Rainforest Pellaea falcata var. falcata Sarcopetalum harveyanum threatened species profile Plantago debilis Sicyos australis Plectranthus parviflorus Smilax glyciphylla James T (2015) Rare and Threatened Flora Stephania japonica var. discolor of Fairfield Local Government area. Tylophora barbata

James, T (2016) Native Flora on Shale Soils of the Cumberland Plain, western Sydney— An Identification Guide

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