Protected Plant Survey

J000206-003-R-Rev0                                                                                                                                                 June 2016


Table 3 - Summary of Significant Species potentially utilising the Site and immediate surrounding area
                                                        EPBC
                                           NC Act                                                                                  Potential to occur       Recorded
  Scientific Name      Common Name                       Act                                Habitat***
                                           Status*                                                                                 in the project area     Sightings****
                                                       Status**

                                                                   This species occurs on flat coastal lowland plains typically
                                                                   occurring in seasonally waterlogged areas of wet
 Acacia attenuata                             V           V        heathland or heathland margins, open forest and                 Potentially           5 km
                                                                   woodland communities, and specifically on sandy poorly
                                                                   drained soils or peat swamps which are infertile

                                                                   Acacia baueri subsp. baueri is found on infertile and often
 Acacia baueri
                       Tiny Wattle            V            -       seasonally waterlogged sands in coastal heath (wallum)          Unlikely              5 km
 subsp. Baueri
                                                                   habitat and adjacent plateaus and low open woodland.

                                                                   Low heathland south of Mt. Emu through to Caloundra.
                                                                   Dominant species of heathland habitat where Emu
 Allocasuarina
                       Mt. Emu She-oak        E           E        Mountain Sheoak occurs include Ptilanthium deustum,             Unlikely              5 km
 emuina
                                                                   Hakea actites and Banksia oblongifolia. Wet heath
                                                                   vegetation grows to 1–1.5 m in height and is dense

                                                                   Bacon Wood occurs mostly on well-drained sandy loam
                                                                   soils, which are often alluvial in origin and contain clay or
 Archidendron
                       Bacon Wood             V           V        deep podosols. The species is mostly recorded below 50          Potentially           Not Recorded
 lovelliae
                                                                   m above sea level (asl), but has been found up to 160 m
                                                                   asl

                                                                   Found in or on the edges of rainforest and in wet eucalypt
                                                                   forest, often near creeks or swamps. In south-east
                                                                   Queensland, Hairy-joint Grass has also been recorded
 Arthraxon hispidus    Hairy-joint Grass      V           E        growing around freshwater springs on coastal foreshore          Potentially           5 km
                                                                   dunes, in shaded small gullies, on creek banks, and on
                                                                   sandy alluvium in creek beds in open forests, and also
                                                                   with bog mosses in mound springs.

                                                                   Marbled Balogia is found in subtropical
                                                                   rainforest/notophyll vine forest and wet sclerophyll forest
 Baloghia
                       Marbled Balogia        V           V        (brush box woodland) with rainforest understorey                Unlikely              Not Recorded
 marmorata
                                                                   between 150 and 550 m above sea level. Soils are rich
                                                                   black or dark brown clay and loam derived from basalt



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