Nature conservation

Threatened species

Scrub Turpentine - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Rhodamnia rubescens
Conservation status in NSW: Critically Endangered
Commonwealth status: Critically Endangered
Last updated: 07 Jun 2022

Distribution of the species within this region

The Scrub Turpentine is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the NSW North Coast Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Barrington Known None
Carrai Plateau Known None
Cataract Known None
Chaelundi Known None
Coffs Coast and Escarpment Known None
Comboyne Plateau Known None
Dalmorton Known None
Ellerston Known None
Karuah Manning Known None
Macleay Gorges Known None
Macleay Hastings Known None
Mummel Escarpment Known None
Rocky River Gorge Known None
Tomalla Known None
Upper Hunter Known None
Upper Manning Known None
Washpool Known None
Yuraygir Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Scrub Turpentine - NSW North Coast is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
      • Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
      • Far North Creekflat Paperbark Swamp Forest
      • Far North Floodplain Red Gum Sedge Forest
      • Far North Hinterland Flats Mesic Apple Forest
      • Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
      • Lower Hunter Flats Red Gum Mesic Forest
      • Lower North Riverflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Forest
      • Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
      • Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
      • Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Red Gum Forest
      • Northern Swamp Mahogany-Bottlebrush Swamp Forest
      • Northern Swamp Oak-Paperbark Forest
      • Sydney Creekflat Swamp Mahogany-Paperbark Forest
      • Sydney Hinterland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
      • Sydney Hinterland Sandy Creekflat Shrub Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
      • Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
      • Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
      • Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
      • Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
      • Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
      • Far North Mesophyll Paperbark Swamp Forest
      • Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
      • Far North Sands Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
      • Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
      • Hunter Coast Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Forest
      • Hunter Coast Sandplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
      • Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
      • Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • Northern Lowland Orange Gum Dry Swamp Forest
      • Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Mahogany Forest
      • Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
      • Northern Paperbark Banksia Littoral Forest
      • Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
      • Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
      • Northern Sands Swamp Mahogany Shrubby Rush Forest
      • Northern Sandy Alluvium Heathy Swamp Forest
      • Shoalhaven Lowland Flats Wet Swamp Forest
      • Sydney Hinterland Creekflat Paperbark Scrub
      • Wyong Paperbark-Woollybutt Swamp Forest
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • Central Eastern Ranges River Oak Forest
      • Clarence Valley River Oak Wet Forest
      • Far North Creekline Wet Forest
      • Far North River Oak Wet Forest
      • Lower North Hinterland River Oak Forest
      • Lower North River Oak-Watergum Riparian Forest
      • Northern Coastal River Oak Wet Forest
      • Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
      • Northern Hinterland River Oak Sheltered Forest
      • Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Scrub
      • Upper Orara Riparian Wet Forest
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  • Rainforests
    • Cool Temperate Rainforests
      • Illawarra Escarpment Cool Temperate Rainforest
      • Northern Escarpment Sassafras Rainforest
    • Dry Rainforests
      • Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • Clarence Lowland Riparian Red Gum Wet Forest
      • Clarence-Richmond Riverine Rainforest
      • Coraki Sandstone Rises Dry Rainforest
      • Far North Basalt Gully Dry Rainforest
      • Far North Floodplain Dry Rainforest
      • Far North Grey Myrtle Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • Far North Hinterland Kamala-Coogera Dry Rainforest
      • Far North Hoop Pine Dry Rainforest
      • Glenugie Peak Dry Rainforest
      • Greater Sydney Enriched Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
      • Grey Myrtle - Grey Gum gully dry rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • Grey Myrtle - Rusty Fig dry rainforest in sandstone gorges of the upper Hunter Valley, mainly Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • Grey Myrtle sheltered gully dry rainforest in gullies of the Sydney Basin
      • Hunter Coast Lowland Grey Myrtle Wet Forest
      • Hunter Valley Rusty Fig Dry Rainforest
      • Hunter Valley Whalebone Dry Rainforest
      • Illawarra Complex Dry Rainforest
      • Killarney Dry Rainforest
      • Lower Hunter Tuckeroo Riparian Rainforest
      • Lower North Estuarine Sand Dry Rainforest
      • Lower North Grey Myrtle Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • Lower North Hinterland Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • Lower North Waterhousea Riparian Rainforest
      • Lower North Waterhousea-Water Gum Rainforest
      • Lower Richmond Floodplain Waterhousea Forest
      • Lower Richmond Lowland Hills Dry Rainforest
      • Mooball Dry Rainforest
      • Moreton Bay Fig - Myrtle Ebony dry vine rainforest on sandstone at Pillar Rock, east of Grafton, South Eastern Queensland Bioregion
      • Mount Warrawolong Screeslope Rainforest
      • Mount Yengo Subtropical Dry Rainforest
      • Northern Escarpment Dry Rainforest
      • Northern Escarpment Grey Myrtle Gully Rainforest
      • Northern Escarpment Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
      • Northern Hinterland Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
      • Northwest Sydney Sandstone Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
      • Nymboida Water Gum-Myrtle Riparian Forest
      • Richmond Valley Riparian Waterhousea Forest
      • Rusty Fig - Native Quince - Native Olive dry rainforest of the Central Hunter Valley
      • South Coast Escarpment Dry Rainforest
      • South Coast Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
      • Southern Lismore Basalt Dry Rainforest
      • Sydney Hinterland Grey Myrtle Riparian Forest
      • Timbarra Sheltered Gorges Vine Thicket
      • Upper Hunter Ranges Moist Gully Forest
      • Western Sydney Complex Dry Rainforest
      • Wild Quince - Mock Olive - Rusty Fig - Iamboto - Sweet Pittosporum dry rainforest of rocky and scree areas of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • Wooloweyah Sandstone Lowland Rainforest
      • Yarriabini Moist Shrubland
      • Yuraygir Range Gully Dry Rainforest
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    • Littoral Rainforests
      • Far North Littoral Rainforest
      • Far North Sands Coastal Cypress Littoral Rainforest
      • Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
      • Illawarra Seacliffs Littoral Rainforest
      • Lower North Sands Littoral Rainforest
      • Mid North Headland Brush Box Littoral Rainforest
      • Mid North Littoral Rainforest
      • Mid North Sands Littoral Rainforest
      • Mid North Tuckeroo-Paperbark Littoral Wet Forest
      • Myall-Wallis Lakes Littoral Rainforest
      • Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
      • Sydney Coast Tuckeroo Littoral Rainforest
      • Tomaree Headland Littoral Rainforest
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    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • Black Wattle - Hill Kanuka - Coachwood - Mountain Banksia - Soft Corkwood low closed forest on shallow soils of the Dorrigo Escarpment, NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • Blue Mountains Gorge Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • Central Coast Gallery Rainforest
      • Comboyne Plateau Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • Illawarra Escarpment Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • Lilly Pilly - Coachwood gully warm temperate rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • Lower North Wet Gully Palm Rainforest
      • Mid North Escarpment Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • Nattai Plateau Callicoma Gully Rainforest
      • Northern Escarpment Coachwood-Beech Rainforest
      • Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Booyong-Corkwood Rainforest
      • Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
      • Northern Gorges Riparian Rainforest
      • Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • Sassafras - Grey Possumwood warm temperate rainforest of the New England escarpment
      • Sassafras - Prickly Ash - Lilly Pilly warm temperate rainforest on ranges of the Barrington Tops and lower North Coast
      • Sassafras warm temperate rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • Socketwood - Lily Pilly warm temperate rainforest of the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • Sydney Basin Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • Sydney Coastal Coachwood Gallery Rainforest
      • Sydney Coastal Foreshores Gully Rainforest
      • Sydney Coastal Lilly Pilly-Palm Gallery Rainforest
      • Sydney Sandstone Coachwood-Grey Myrtle Rainforest
      • Tenterfield Rocky Gully Rainforest
      • Upper Blue Mountains Gully Rainforest
      • Watchimbark Serpentinite Lilly Pilly-Fig Rainforest
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    • Southern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • South Coast Temperate Gully Rainforest
      • Southeast Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • Sydney Montane Basalt Rainforest
    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • Border Ranges Black Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
      • Border Ranges Red Carabeen Rainforest
      • Broken Head Lowland Rainforest
      • Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
      • Far North Floodplain Subtropical Rainforest
      • Far North Lowland Black Bean Riverine Rainforest
      • Far North Lowland Palm Gully Rainforest
      • Far North Lowland Sub-Littoral Rainforest
      • Far North Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
      • Far North Riverine Bangalow Palm Subtropical Rainforest
      • Far North Waterhousea Riparian Rainforest
      • Giant Stinging Tree - fig - Socketwood - Red Cedar dry sub-tropical rainforest of the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • Illawarra Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
      • Lismore Basalt Subtropical Rainforest
      • Liverpool Range Daphnandra Rainforest
      • Lower Richmond Hills Dry-Subtropical Rainforest
      • Lower Richmond Sandflat Subtropical Rainforest
      • Lower Tweed Hills Subtropical Dry Rainforest
      • Mid North Lowland Floodplain Rainforest
      • Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
      • Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Dendrocnide Subtropical Rainforest
      • Northern Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
      • Port Macquarie Coastal Subtropical Rainforest
      • South Coast Warm Temperate-Subtropical Rainforest
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  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • Central Coast Escarpment Moist Forest
      • Cordeaux Crinanite Moist Grassy Forest
      • Craven Grey Box Grassy Forest
      • Craven Grey Box Wet Forest
      • Far North Coastal Hills Blackbutt-Ironbark Forest
      • Far North Hinterland Grey Box-Grey Gum Wet Forest
      • Far North Hinterland Grey Gum Grassy Forest
      • Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • Hunter Escarpment Enriched Moist Forest
      • Hunter Range Blue Gum Gully Forest
      • Hunter Range Colluvial Apple-Gum Forest
      • Hunter Range Sheltered Grey Gum Forest
      • Hunter Range Turpentine-Grey Myrtle Gully Forest
      • Hunter Valley Hills Wet Vine Forest
      • Illawarra North-Pittwater Bangalay Moist Forest
      • Lower Hunter Screeslope Wet Forest
      • Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Grassy Forest
      • Lower North Escarpment Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • Lower North Ranges Turpentine Moist Forest
      • Lower North Sheltered Valley Red Gum Forest
      • Lower North Spotted Gum-Mahogany-Ironbark Sheltered Forest
      • Lower North White Mahogany-Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • Mount Pikapene Steel Box Wet Forest
      • Mount Warning Caldera Wet Grassy Forest
      • Northern Blackbutt-Turpentine Shrub Forest
      • Northern Bloodwood-Ironbark Moist Grassy Forest
      • Northern Foothills Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • Northern Gorges Diverse Grassy Forest
      • Northern Hinterland Blackbutt-Forest Oak Wet Forest
      • Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Mahogany Grassy Forest
      • Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Turpentine Mesic Forest
      • Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Forest Oak Grassy Forest
      • Northern Hinterland White Mahogany Moist Grassy Forest
      • Rivertree Creekflat Moist Grassy Forest
      • Sun Valley Diatreme Cabbage Gum Forest
      • Sydney Basin Creekflat Blue Gum-Apple Forest
      • Sydney Coastal Shale-Sandstone Forest
      • Sydney Foreshores Shale Forest
      • Sydney Sandstone Plateau Shale Forest
      • Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest
      • Watagan Range Turpentine-Mahogany Grassy Forest
      • West Mount Royal Slopes Grassy Forest
      • Western Hunter Sandstone Grey Gum-Grey Myrtle Forest
      • Wollemi Basalt Red Gum Forest
      • Yessabah Limestone Moist Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • Carrai Moist Grassy Forest
      • Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • Far North Escarpment Gorges Blackbutt Forest
      • Forest Ribbon Gum - Silvertop Stringybark - Sweet Pittosporum - Monkey Gum moist tall open forest of the northern upper Hunter Valley escarpment
      • Forest Ribbon Gum - Snow Gum - Snow Grass grassy open forest of the Liverpool Ranges and New England Tableland
      • Messmate - Silvertop Stringybark - Tussock Grass shrub - grass open forest of western Barrington Tops
      • Mountain Gum - Messmate - Snow Gum grassy open forest of the New England Tablelands
      • Northern Escarpment Blackbutt Cool Moist Forest
      • Northern Escarpment Messmate Cool Wet Forest
      • Northern Escarpment Messmate Moist Grassy Forest
      • Silvertop Stringybark - Forest Ribbon Gum grassy open forest of the Liverpool Ranges
      • Silvertop Stringybark - Messmate - Sydney Blue Gum moist shrub-grass tall open forest on ranges of the lower North Coast
      • Silvertop Stringybark - Ribbon Gum ferny open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • Snow Gum - Mountain Gum grassy open forest on the Barrington plateau
      • Sydney Blue Gum - Silvertop Stringybark grassy open forest on ranges of the lower North Coast
      • Warrumbungle She Oak heathland
      • Western Guy Fawkes Plateau Moist Gum Forest
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    • Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • Nattai-Morton Sandstone Peppermint Gully Forest
      • Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
      • Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine-Ironbark Moist Forest
      • Shoalhaven Lowland Wet Gully Forest
      • Shoalhaven Spotted Gum-Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • South Coast Lowland Creekflat Forest
      • South Coast Lowland Shrub-Grass Forest
      • South Coast Spotted Gum Moist Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • Western Blue Mountains Creekline Paperbark Forest
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • Blue Gum High Forest
      • Blue Mountains Enriched Blue Gum Moist Forest
      • Blue Mountains Sandstone Turpentine Moist Forest
      • Blue Mountains Wet Gully Forest
      • Border Ranges Brush Box-Tallowwood Wet Forest
      • Central Coast Dolerite Hills Wet Forest
      • Clarence Gorges Rocky Brush Box Wet Forest
      • Clarence Lowland Sandstone Brush Box Wet Forest
      • Clarence Lowland Waterhousea Riparian Forest
      • Cumberland Bangalay x Blue Gum Riverflat Forest
      • Far North Brush Box-Bloodwood Wet Forest
      • Far North Brush Box-Walnut Wet Forest
      • Far North Floodplain Wet Layered Forest
      • Far North Hinterland Brush Box Wet Forest
      • Hastings Valley Grey Gum-Grey Box Wet Forest
      • Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
      • Illawarra Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • Illawarra Escarpment Bangalay x Blue Gum Wet Forest
      • Illawarra Lowland Wet Vine Forest
      • Illawarra Seacliff Banksia-Bangalay Forest
      • Jervis Bay Sands Littoral Moist Forest
      • Koonyum Range Rhyolite Turpentine Wet Forest
      • Lower North Choricarpia Wet Forest
      • Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Wet Forest
      • Lower North Foothills Turpentine-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • Lower North Ranges Riparian Turpentine Forest
      • Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
      • Lower North Valleys Red Gum Wet Forest
      • Messmate - Forest Ribbon Gum - New England Blackbutt shrub - grass tall open forest of Barrington Tops and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • Mid North Hinterland Wet Forest
      • Mid North Lowland Flooded Gum-Palm Wet Forest
      • Mid North Lowland Riparian Wet Forest
      • Mount Billen Scree Wet Forest
      • Mountain Lagoon Basalt Wet Forest
      • New England Blackbutt moist very tall open forest on the southern escarpment of the Liverpool Range to Barrington Tops region, southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion to NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • Northern Brush Box Subtropical Wet Forest
      • Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest
      • Northern Hinterland Brush Box-Quince Wet Forest
      • Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine Wet Forest
      • Northern Lowland Viney Wet Forest
      • Northern Ranges Brush Box-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • Northern Ranges Dunns Gum-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • Northern Turpentine-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • Sweet Pittosporum - Forest Oak - Rough-barked Apple depauparate gully rainforest on the Liverpool Range
      • Sydney Blue Gum – New England Blackbutt - Whitetop Box moist shrub – grass tall open forest of the lower North Coast
      • Sydney Enriched Sandstone Moist Forest
      • Tweed Valley Lowland Wet Forest
      • Washpool Outcrops White-topped Box Forest
      • Yuraygir Range Brush Box-Tallowwood Gully Forest
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    • Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • Far North New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
      • Meldrum High Plateau Wet Forest
      • Messmate grassy tall open forest on Barrington and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • Mid North Escarpment Blue Gum Moist Forest
      • Mid North Escarpment Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • New England Blackbutt - Forest Ribbon Gum grassy tall open forest of the Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • Northern Escarpment Corkwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • Northern Escarpment Layered Blackbutt Fern Forest
      • Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
      • Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt-Maple Wet Forest
      • Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt-Tallowwood Wet Forest
      • Northern Escarpment Rocky Blackbutt Scrub Woodland
      • Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple - Bundy open forest of the Liverpool Ranges and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • Sydney Blue Gum - Silvertop Stringybark very tall wet open forest on protected slopes on the Liverpool Range / north coast
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    • Southern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • Blue Mountains Basalt Cap Forest
      • Blue Mountains Cool Wet Eucalypt Forest
      • Central Tableland Montane Wet Forest
      • Illawarra Southern Escarpment Wet Forest
      • Kanangra Screeslope Shrub Forest
      • Mount Jellore Trachyte Forest
      • Mount Warrawolong Basalt Wet Forest
      • Southeast Escarpment Wet Layered Forest
      • Southeast High Mountain Wet Layered Forest
      • Southeast Mountain Wet Fern Forest
      • Southeast Tableland Ranges Brown Barrel Fern Forest
      • Southern Escarpment Messmate Forest
      • Southern Highlands Shale Margins Moist Forest
      • Southern Highlands Shale-Basalt Wet Forest
      • Southern Highlands Swamp Forest
      • Western Blue Mountains Colluvial Apple Forest
      • Western Blue Mountains Montane Wet Fern Forest
      • Western Blue Mountains Sheltered Shale Forest
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