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Appendix 5 Threatened Species Tables APPENDIX 5 THREATENED SPECIES TABLES Table 8.17 Threatened flora species located within the Georges River study area. * = recorded from 1960, ^ = recorded before 1960 (Source: DECCW 2009b; NSW Wildlife Atlas). ROTAP: Rare or Threatened Australian Plants. Local Location of record Conservation Government Species Status Habit / Habitat Threats Area (LGA) (NSW/Federal) where occurs - -Occurs at a few sites along the railway line - Habitat loss Bankstown Near Park (77/10853)* Endangered Gosford at Penshurst, at Carss Bush Park, Carss Population in the - Habitat isolation and fragmentation Wattle Park and there is an unconfirmed siting at Hurstville and Oatley Park, Oatley. - Damage during site maintenance Acacia activities (including from the use of Kogarah LGAs - Grows in open situations on clayey or prominens herbicides) sandy soils - Competition from weeds - Grows in open situations on clayey or sandy Liverpool Cherrybrook Park* soils Georges River foreshore - Occurs in open woodland and forest, in a variety of plant communities, including - Habitat loss Holsworthy Military Cooks River/ Castlereagh Ironbark Forest, Reserve* - Habitat degradation by weed Vulnerable/Vulne Shale/ Gravel Transition Forest and Downy invasion, mechanical damage, Cumberland Plain Woodland Fairfield Chipping Norton Wattle rable rubbish dumping, illegal track Known to occur within Castlereagh Ironbark creation and inappropriate fire foreshore* Acacia Forest which occurs within the study area regime Prospect Creek pubescens ROTAP: 3VCa (CMA vegetation mapping project) - Disease foreshore* - Hybridisation Bankstown Vale of Ah Reserve* Deepwater Regional Park* Local Location of record Conservation Government Species Status Habit / Habitat Threats Area (LGA) (NSW/Federal) where occurs Park 74/10845* Kelso Park* Near Reserve (85/12654)* Near Stuart Street Reserve* Near Park (77/10853)* Near Davies Reserve* Hurstville Near Gannons Park* - Coastal scrub and dry sclerophyll woodland - Clearing, land development and Rockdale Near Cook Park* on sandy soils habitat degradation by rubbish dumping, weed invasion and The threatened subspecies has not been access by people Sunshine recorded within any of the vegetation - Greatest threat is habitat loss due Endangered/End communities that occur within the study area Wattle to urban development angered as part of the CMA vegetation mapping Acacia project. - At some locations, inappropriate terminalis fire regimes may also threaten subsp. ROTAP: 2RCi persistence terminalis - Potential for impacts from park management activities or recreational usage due to some plants occuring on the edge of walking tracks and roads Local Location of record Conservation Government Species Status Habit / Habitat Threats Area (LGA) (NSW/Federal) where occurs - Potential for the sub-species to hybridise with horticultural cultivars - Found in damp places in open forest on - Grazing of plants by domestic Sutherland Along foreshore of Sandy sandstone stock Point* Only has an outlying population in NSW - Damage or destruction of habitat Small Pale (otherwise only in SE Australia and by timber harvesting and road- Grass-lily Endangered/ - Tasmania), in Barcoongere State Forest, works Caesia between Grafton and Coffs Harbour. Though - Destruction of plants following mis- parviflora the record within the study area is recent identification as one of the more var.minor (2001). common varieties - Due to populations being small and localised there is a risk of local extinction - in sandy soils in dry sclerophyll open forest, - Increased fire frequency due to Liverpool Near Pleasure Point woodland and heath on sandstone burning for hazard reduction and Reserve * other unnatural ignitions This species has not been recorded within Hairy Endangered/End any of the vegetation communities that occur - Habitat loss by clearing due to Geebung angered within the study area as part of the CMA urban and small rural lot Persoonia development Hurstville Oatley Park* ROTAP: 3KCi vegetation mapping project. hirsuta - The Europeaen Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) being a poor pollinator for this species and competing with native bees Nodding Endangered/End - Confined to aeolian and alluvial sediments - Habitat loss and fragmentation (as Liverpool Williams Creek* Local Location of record Conservation Government Species Status Habit / Habitat Threats Area (LGA) (NSW/Federal) where occurs Geebung angered and occurs in a range of sclerophyll forest a result of clearing for mining, and Near 55/9584* and woodland vegetation communities, with rural/residential development) Persoonia the majority of individuals occurring within Holsworthy Military - Inappropriate fire regimes, in nutans Agnes Banks Woodland or Castlereagh Reserve* ROTAP: 2ECi particular frequent fire Scribbly Gum Woodland Voyager Point* - Habitat degradation resulting from - disturbance associated with Near Pleasure Point Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland occurs unrestricted access to habitat Reserve*) within the study area (CMA vegetation mapping project) Bankstown East Hills Park* Predicted habitat model includes study area Near Boomerang as having potential habitat (Steller & Bryant Reserve* 2004). The location of the record for this species is within this modeled habitat area. - In both the Cumberland Plain and Illawarra Bankstown Near Beatty Reserve* environments this species is found on well- structured clay soils Park along Prospect Creek (56/10012) * - On the inland Cumberland Plain sites it is - Loss of habitat to urban Endangered/End Spiked Rice- associated with Grey Box and Ironbark development flower angered - In the coastal Illawarra it occurs commonly - High frequency fire Pimelea in Coast Banksia open woodland with a - Habitat modification such as spicata ROTAP: 3ECi more well developed shrub and grass mowing, grazing, weed invasion, understorey. rubbish dumping or urban runoff This species has not been recorded within any of the vegetation communities that occur within the study area as part of the CMA Local Location of record Conservation Government Species Status Habit / Habitat Threats Area (LGA) (NSW/Federal) where occurs vegetation mapping project. However predicted habitat model for this species includes study area as having potential habitat (Steller & Bryant 2004). The location of the record for this species is within this modeled habitat area. - Most commonly found growing in small Bankstown Lambeth Reserve* pockets of shallow soil in depressions on sandstone rock shelves above cliff lines. The vegetation communities above the - Habitat loss due to clearing for shelves where Pterostylis saxicola occurs development are sclerophyll forest or woodland on - Habitat degradation associated Sydney Endangered/End shale/sandstone transition soils or shale with unrestricted access and soils. Plains angered grazing Greenhood This species has not been recorded within - Unauthorised collection any of the vegetation communities that occur Pterostylis - Weed invasion ROTAP: within the study area as part of the CMA saxicola Recommend 2E vegetation mapping project. However a - Inappropriate fire regimes predicted habitat model for this species - Vulnerable to local extinction, due includes study area as having potential habitat to its extremely small population (Steller & Bryant 2004). The location of the size and restricted distribution record for this species is within this modeled habitat area. Coast Endangered/ - - Coast Groundsel grows on primary dunes - Potential habitat loss as land is Sutherland Towra Point Nature Reserve^ Groundsel This species has not been recorded within cleared for coastal developments Local Location of record Conservation Government Species Status Habit / Habitat Threats Area (LGA) (NSW/Federal) where occurs Senecio any of the vegetation communities that occur - Off-road driving spathulatus within the study area as part of the CMA - Bitou Bush (Chrysanthemoides vegetation mapping project. monilifera) may invade Coast Groundsel habitat and smother the species - Excessive pedestrian trampling may cause erosion of dunes and loss of Coast Groundsel habitat - On the south coast the Magenta Lilly Pilly Sutherland Near Woolooware Bay* - Potential threat by frequent fire occurs on grey soils over sandstone, due to being a rainforest plant and restricted mainly to remnant stands of Towa Point Nature is therefore likely that it has not littoral (coastal) rainforest. Reserve* Magenta Lilly Endangered/Vul evolved to cope - On the central coast Magenta Lilly Pilly Pilly nerable - Loss of habitat through clearing for occurs on gravels, sands, silts and clays in residential development Syzygium riverside gallery rainforests and remnant paniculatum ROTAP: 3VCi littoral rainforest communities. - Grazing and trampling of habitat by grazing stock Known to occur within Coastal Freshwater Swamp Forest which occurs within the study - Invasion by weed species of area (CMA vegetation mapping project) habitat, particularly by Lantana Note: Tetratheca neglecta (ROTAP 3RC) has been recorded at Poulton Park, Kogarah LGA. This species is located within an area of vegetation that may be affected by rising sea levels, invasive species and human activities. (pers. comm. Kogarah LGA 22 June 2010) Table 8.22 Threatened fauna species from National Parks and Wildlife Service Atlas Search and Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Protected Matters Search that are likely to occur within the study area. Conservation Status Recent Records in Potential Habitat within study area Species
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