Last updated:
28 Mar 2023
Distribution of the species within this region
The Painted Honeyeater is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Painted Honeyeater - South Eastern Highlands is known to
be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information
about it.
- Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
- Gibber Transition Shrublands
- Black Box - Gidgee - chenopod low open woodland wetland on alluvial clay soils in the Culgoa River region of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Mulga Lands Bioregion
- Gidgee chenopod woodland on red-brown clays in the semi-arid (hot) climate zone mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion.
- Gidgee of the intermittent watercourses or the arid zone (mainly Channel Country Bioregion and Simpson Strezlecki Dunefields Bioregion)
- Whitewood - Western Rosewood low woodland of the NSW north western plains
- North-west Plain Shrublands
- Derived mixed shrubland on loamy-clay soils in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- Leopardwood low woodland mainly on clayey soils in the semi-arid zone
- Mulga - Ironwood shrubland on loams and clays mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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- Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
- Narrow-leaved Hopbush - Scrub Turpentine - Senna shrubland on semi-arid and arid sandplains and dunes.
- Nelia tall open shrubland of semi-arid sandplains
- Prickly Wattle tall open shrubland of dunes and sandplains of semi-arid and arid regions
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- Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
- Bastard Mulga tall open shrubland of the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
- Black Oak - Western Rosewood - bluebush/saltbush low sparse woodland on gravel downs in the arid climate zone
- Heather Bush - Mulga - Umbrella Mulga open shrubland on gravelly rises mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
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- Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
- Central Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- Baryulgil Serpentinite Woodland
- Clarence Foothills Bloodwood-Ironbark Grassy Forest
- Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
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- Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- Grey Box - Grey Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum grassy open forest of the central Hunter
- Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Gum - Native Olive woodland of Central Hunter
- New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- Brittle Gum - Silvertop Stringybark grassy open forest of the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Broad-leaved Stringybark shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- Nandewar Box - Western New England Blackbutt - Red Stringybark open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
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- Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
- New England Blackbutt - stringybark grassy forest the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
- North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
- Black Cypress Pine - White Box - Tumbledown Gum shrubby open forest / woodland mainly in the Mt Kaputar region, Nandewar Bioregion
- Blakely's Red Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Rough-barked Apple shrubby woodland of the upper Hunter
- Dwyer's Red Gum - Dirty (Baradine) Gum - cypress pine shrubby woodland of the Narrabri region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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- Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- Blakely's Red Gum riparian woodland of the Pilliga Outwash, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Buloke - White Cypress Pine woodland on outwash plains in the Pilliga Scrub and Narrabri regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Dirty Gum - Buloke - White Cypress Pine - ironbark shrubby woodland on deep sandy soils in the Liverpool Plains region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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- Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- Blakely's Red Gum - Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box woodland on Wyangala Granite in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Stringybark - box - Daviesia latifolia - snow grass open forest on sandy loam soils from acid volcanics in the Boorowa - Young region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregio
- Mugga Ironbark - Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Box shrub/grass open forest on hills in the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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- Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
- Blakely's Red Gum - Rough-barked Apple shrubby woodland of central and upper Hunter
- Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
- Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bull Oak - Grey Box shrub - grass open forest of the central and lower Hunter
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- Floodplain Transition Woodlands
- Carbeen +/- Coolabah grassy woodland on floodplain clay loam soil on north-western NSW floodplains, mainly Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
- Mixed box eucalypt woodland on low sandy-loam rises on alluvial plains in central western NSW
- Mixed Eucalypt woodlands of floodplains in the southern-eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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- New England Grassy Woodlands
- Black Sallee plateau low woodland in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest or woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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- Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
- Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
- Bondo Slopes Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
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- Subalpine Woodlands
- Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
- Bondo Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
- Brittle Gum - stringybark shrubby open forest on basalt residuals in the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
- Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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- Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
- Apple Box - Rough-barked Apple terrace flats woodland of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Apple Box - Silver Banksia - Drooping Sheoak open woodland - tall shrubland in protected gullies of the Coolac - Tumut serpentinite belt, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion.
- Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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- Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
- Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
- Brigalow - Belah open forest / woodland on alluvial often gilgaied clay from Pilliga Scrub to Goondiwindi, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Brigalow - Bladder Saltbush open woodland to tall open shrubland in the Come-By-Chance region, Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Brigalow - Gidgee open woodland on clay plains west of the Culgoa River, Mulga Lands Bioregion
- Brigalow open woodland on clay soils in the Nyngan-Bourke-Enngonia regions of the NSW north-western plains
- Poplar Box - Yellow Box - Western Grey Box grassy woodland on cracking clay soils mainly in the Liverpool Plains, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Inland Floodplain Woodlands
- Black Box - Lignum woodland wetland of the inner floodplains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
- Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
- Black Box open woodland wetland with chenopod understorey mainly on the outer floodplains in south-western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
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- North-west Floodplain Woodlands
- Belah woodland on alluvial plains and low rises in the central NSW wheatbelt to Pilliga and Liverpool Plains regions.
- Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
- Black Box woodland wetland on NSW central and northern floodplains including the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
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- Riverine Plain Woodlands
- Central Hunter Weeping Myall Forest
- Weeping Myall - Plains Grass grassy woodlands of the Brigalow Belt South
- Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Weeping Myall open woodland of the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
- Desert Woodlands
- Desert Bloodwood - Mulga low woodland of the semi-arid plains
- Western Bloodwood - Whitewood low open woodland on Tibooburra Granite
- Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
- Beyeria - Mintbush - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubland - low woodland on conglomerate outcrops in the Wellington region, NSW central western slopes
- Currawang very tall shrubland on siliceous rocky ridges and cliffs mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Dwyer's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Currawang shrubby low woodland on rocky hills mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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- North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
- Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - Curracabah - White Box tall woodland on sand in the Narrabri - Warialda region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - River Red Gum - bloodwood tall woodland on sandy loam alluvial and eolian soils in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall woodland of alluvial sand (sand monkeys) in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Mixed scrub low open woodland on sand rises and dunes on floodplains in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple woodland on alluvial terraces in central-north NSW
- Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
- Buloke - Moonah - Black Box open woodland on sandy rises of semi arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
- Slender Cypress Pine - Sugarwood - Western Rosewood open woodland on sandy rises mainly in the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- White Cypress Pine open woodland of sand plains, prior streams and dunes mainly of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
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- Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
- Dwyer's Red Gum - she oak mallee shrubland on eolian sand in the Gilgandra region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Red Mallee - White Mallee extremely tall tree mallee on silty-loam-clay soils of central south-western NSW
- Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
- Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Leopardwood low open woodland on sandplain and sandy flats in semi arid (hot) and arid climate zones
- Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Wilga woodland of central NSW including the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- Black Oak - Western Rosewood open woodland on deep sandy loams mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
- Buck Spinifex shrubby hummock grassland / Coolabah Apple - Silver-leaved Ironbark open woodland on deep sand in the Enngonia to Cumborah regions, north western NSW
- Silver-leaved Ironbark - Poplar Box +/- Ironwood shrub - grass woodland on rises in the north-western plains of NSW
- Western Peneplain Woodlands
- Coobah - Western Rosewood low open tall shrubland or woodland mainly on outwash areas in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
- Gum Coolabah - Mulga open woodland on gravel ridges of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains
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