Attachment 4 - Terrestrial Ecology Report_RACV_2022 June

Table 4. Threatened species’ habitats and likelihood of occurrence on site

 Family                   Scientific Name                 Habitat                                                                      Likelihood of occurrence
                                                                                                                                       Unlikely. Although suitable habitat
                                                          Confined to high rainfall coastal plains from Southport N to Maryborough,
 Mimosaceae               Acacia attenuata                                                                                             present and few records within 2km,
                                                          south-eastern Qld. Grows in heath or layered eucalypt open forest.
                                                                                                                                       the site is highly disturbed.
                                                          The Emu Mountain Sheoak grows in open and closed heath on fine-
                                                                                                                                       Unlikely. Suitable habitat not
 Casuarinaceae            Allocasuarina emuina            grained rhyolite rocky slopes (Mt Peregian) and in wallum heath on
                                                                                                                                       present.
                                                          undulating coastal plain.
                                                                                                                                       Unlikely. Suitable habitat not
 Casuarinaceae            Allocasuarina thalassoscopica   Known only from the windswept south-facing slopes of Mt Coolum Qld.
                                                                                                                                       present.
                                                          In subtropical rainforest on deep sand; Cooloola area and Fraser Island,
 Mimosaceae               Archidendron lovelliae                                                                                       Unlikely. Suitable habitat not present
                                                          Qld.
                                                                                                                                       Unlikely. Although suitable habitat
                                                          May be found growing on the fringe of rainforest or in more open, wet
 Poaceae                  Arthraxon hispidus                                                                                           present and one sighting within 2km,
                                                          eucalypt forest.
                                                                                                                                       the site has been highly disturbed.
                                                          In subtropical rainforest; known only from a few sites north from the        Unlikely. Suitable habitat not
 Euphorbiaceae            Baloghia marmorata
                                                          Lismore district, N.S.W., to Mt Pinbarren (SE of Gympie), Qld.               present.
                                                                                                                                       Unlikely. Suitable habitat not
 Blandfordiaceae          Blandfordia grandiflora         Grows in damp sandy and/or peaty soils in coastal and tableland areas.
                                                                                                                                       present.
                                                          In subtropical rainforest; north from Mullumbimby, N.S.W., to Mt Larcom      Unlikely. Suitable habitat not
 Rutaceae                 Bosistoa transversa
                                                          (NW of Gladstone), Qld.                                                      present.
                                                          Stinking Cryptocarya grows in littoral rainforest, usually on sandy soils,   Unlikely. Suitable habitat not
 Lauraceae                Cryptocarya foetida
                                                          from Iluka, NSW to Fraser Island, Qld.                                       present.
                                                          Heathlands, heathy woodlands, sedgelands, Xanthorrhoea spp. plains, dry
                                                          sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation and shrubby sub-              Unlikely. Although suitable habitat
 Orchidaceae              Cryptostylis hunteriana         formation), forested wetlands, freshwater wetlands, grasslands, grassy       present, the site has been highly
                                                          woodlands, rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-              disturbed.
                                                          formation).
                                                          From Mt Bauple, near Gympie, to Currumbin Valley in the Gold Coast           Unlikely. Suitable habitat not
 Proteaceae               Macadamia integrifolia
                                                          hinterland, south-east Queensland in drier types of rainforest.              present.
                                                          Lowland warm complex notophyll vine forest and Araucarian notophyll
                                                                                                                                       Unlikely. Suitable habitat not
 Proteaceae               Macadamia ternifolia            vine forest on basic and intermediate volcanic soils and alluvia in higher
                                                                                                                                       present.
                                                          rainfall areas of south-east Queensland.



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