210055 - 327 Kinmond Creek Road, COOTHARABA - Ecological Assessment Report

                                                                                                                                 Ecological Assessment Report
                                                                                                                            327 Kinmond Creek Rd, Cootharaba



       Species         Common        NC Act   EPBC Act                          Habitat                                      Likelihood of Occurrence
                        Name         Status    Status
                                                         This species is found in small and fragmented
                                                         populations from Gympie in QLD, south to Clarence
                     ball nut                                                                                      Unlikely – the preferred vegetation communities
  Floydia praealta                     V         V       River in northern NSW. Preferred vegetation
                                                                                                                   for this species were not found on site.
                                                         communities include subtropical and riverine
                                                         rainforest and coastal scrub (SPRAT 2008).
                                                         Occurs within lowland warm complex notophyll vine
  Macadamia          macadamia                                                                                     Unlikely – the preferred vegetation community
                                       V         V       forest and Araucarian notophyll vine forest on
  integrifolia       nut                                                                                           for this species was not found on site.
                                                         volcanic soils and alluvia in areas of higher rainfall.
                                                         Generally grows in remnant rainforest, preferring
                                                         partially open areas such as the edges. They grow
                     small-fruited
  Macadamia                                              on well drained soils from flat to steep slopes. The      Unlikely – the preferred vegetation community
                     Queensland        V         V
  ternifolia                                             surrounding vegetation community is predominantly         for this species was not found on site.
                     nut
                                                         notophyll mixed forest or tall closed forest (DoE
                                                         2018).
                                                         Found from the Littabella Forest Reserve in the
                                                         north, west to Dallarnil and south to Cooran in the
                                                         greater Maryborough region. It occurs in the
  Macrozamia         pineapple                                                                                     Unlikely – the preferred vegetation community
                                       E         V       lowlands, between 5-230m ASL, in open forest or
  pauli-guilielmi    zamia                                                                                         for this species was not found on site.
                                                         wallum woodland. The vegetation community is
                                                         generally dominated by Banksia or Eucalyptus
                                                         species (DoEE 2018).
                                                         Commonly         associated     with    coastal    wet
                     lesser
                                                         heath/sedgeland wetlands, swampy grassland or             Unlikely – the preferred vegetation community
  Phaius australis   swamp-            E         E
                                                         swampy forest and often where Broad-leaved                for this species was not found on site.
                     orchid
                                                         Paperbark or Swamp Mahogany are found.
                                                         Found from inland of Bundaberg in QLD, south to
                                                         approximately        280km     south     of   Sydney.
                                                         Predominantely found in rainforest communities
  Rhodamnia          scrub
                                       E         -       including littoral, warm temperate and subtropical. It
  rubescens          turpentine
                                                         can also be found in wet sclerophyll communities
                                                         usually on volvanic and sedimentary soils (SPRAT
                                                         2008).




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