Attachment 5 - Flora Survey Report by Gondwana Ecology

Appendix B – Likelihood of Occurrence – Threatened Flora

Family            Scientific Name               Habitat                                                                                                            Likelihood of occurrence
                                                Confined to high rainfall coastal plains from Southport N to Maryborough, south-eastern Qld. Grows in              Possible. Recorded within 1 km and
Mimosaceae        Acacia attenuata
                                                heath or layered eucalypt open forest.                                                                             suitable habitat present

Mimosaceae        Acacia baueri subsp. baueri   Low-lying coastal heath on infertile and often waterlogged sands from Fraser Is., Qld, S to Sydney, N.S.W.         Unlikely. Suitable habitat not present

                                                The Emu Mountain Sheoak grows in open and closed heath on fine-grained rhyolite rocky slopes (Mt                   Possible. Recorded within 1 km and
Casuarinaceae     Allocasuarina emuina
                                                Peregian) and in wallum heath on undulating coastal plain.                                                         suitable habitat present
                  Allocasuarina
Casuarinaceae                                   Known only from the windswept south-facing slopes of Mt Coolum Qld                                                 Unlikely. Suitable habitat not present
                  thalassoscopica
                                                                                                                                                                   Possible. Suitable habitat present
Poaceae           Arthraxon hispidus            May be found growing on the fringe of rainforest or in more open, wet eucalypt forest
                                                                                                                                                                   and 1 (one) record within 5 km
                                                In subtropical rainforest; known only from a few sites north from the Lismore district, N.S.W., to Mt
Euphorbiaceae     Baloghia marmorata                                                                                                                               Unlikely. Suitable habitat not present
                                                Pinbarren (SE of Gympie), Qld.
                                                                                                                                                                   Possible. Recorded within 1 km and
Blandfordiaceae   Blandfordia grandiflora       Grows in damp sandy and/or peaty soils in coastal and tableland areas
                                                                                                                                                                   suitable habitat present
Rutaceae          Bosistoa transversa           In subtropical rainforest; north from Mullumbimby, N.S.W., to Mt Larcom (NW of Gladstone), Qld.                    Unlikely. Suitable habitat not present
                                                The species grows only on Hoop Pines (Araucaria cunninghamii), colonising the upper branches of mature
Orchidaceae       Bulbophyllum globuliforme     trees in upland rainforest. It is conserved in Noosa National Park, Lamington National Park and Bunya              Unlikely. Suitable habitat not present
                                                Mountains National Park, Queensland, and Border Ranges National Park, NSW.
                                                little publicly available published information. Record at Noosa NP, headland section; other records confined
Cyperaceae        Carex breviscapa                                                                                                                                 Unlikely. Suitable habitat not present
                                                to north Queensland

Lauraceae         Cryptocarya foetida           Stinking Cryptocarya grows in littoral rainforest, usually on sandy soils, from Iluka, NSW to Fraser Island, Qld   Unlikely. Suitable habitat not present

                                                heathlands, heathy woodlands, sedgelands, Xanthorrhoea spp. plains, dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass
                                                                                                                                                                   Possible. Suitable habitat present
Orchidaceae       Cryptostylis hunteriana       sub-formation and shrubby sub-formation), forested wetlands, freshwater wetlands, grasslands, grassy
                                                                                                                                                                   although no records within 5 km
                                                woodlands, rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)

                                                The species typically grows on the margin between open forest and heathland, on deep sandy acidic soils.           Possible. Suitable habitat present
Myrtaceae         Eucalyptus conglomerata
                                                Drainage is generally poor and soils can be seasonally waterlogged                                                 and several records within 5 km
Fabaceae          Glycine argyrea               on sandy coastal soils north from Noosa; Only known from Holocene dune sands in Cooloola National park.            Unlikely. Outside known range
                                                                                                                                                                   Probable. Suitable habitat present
Campanulaceae     Lobelia membranacea           eucalypt forest on moist sandy areas; Grows on the edges of lakes, pools and slow-moving streams                   and previously recorded on site
                                                                                                                                                                   (Natural Solutions 2007)


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