Weeping Myall Woodlands

The Weeping Myall Woodlands is an endangered ecological community, under the EPBC Act of the Commonwealth of Australia.^[1] It is found in inland Queensland and inland New South Wales,^[1] on alluvial plains west of the Great Dividing Range.^[2] 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.^[3]

Conservation status

This ecological community has been listed as endangered under the Commonwealth EPBC Act since 7 January 2009.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[2]

Species listed

Species listed as occurring in the NSW EEC Weeping Myall Woodlands[4]

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

• Plants found and photographed NSW Weeping Myall Woodlands
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  Leiocarpa panaetioides
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  Alectryon oleifolius
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  Myoporum montanum
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  Capparis lasiantha in front of Warrior Bush, Apophylla anomalum, and both under a weeping myall, Acacia pendula.

Cases in NSW involving Weeping Myall Woodlands

1. Plath v Hunter Valley Property Management Pty Limited - NSW Caselaw^[5] (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^[6]