Save western Sydney’s former ADI Site. Website of the ADI Residents Action Group

Flora  

This page highlights some of the ADI Sites magnificent flora

 

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Cumberland Plain Woodland
Shale/Gravel Transitional Forest
Ironbark/Scribbly Gum Forest
Ironbark/Scribbly Gum/Red Bloodwood Forest
Wetlands/River Flat Forests Swamp Woodland
Sedgeland

Cumberland Plain Woodland
(an endangered ecological community)

Cheilanthes sieberi
Aristida ramosa
A. vagans
Arthropodium milleflorum
Chloris truncata
C. ventricosa
Commelina cyanea
Cyperus gracilis
Dianella longifolia
D. revoluta
Dichelachne micrantha
Echinopogon caespitosus
Echinopogon ovatus
Entolasia marginata
Eragrostis leptostachya
Hypoxis hygrometrica
Lepidosperma laterala
Lomandra filiformis
L. multiflora
Microlaena stipoides
Oplismenus aemulus
Panicum simile
Themeda australia
Tricoryne elatior
Acacia decurrens
A. falcata
A. implexa
A. parramattensis
Asperula conferta
Brunoniella australia
Bursaria spinosa
Daviesia ulicifolia
Dichondra repens
Dillwynia sieberi
Eucalyptus crebra
E. eugenioides
E. fibrosa
E. maculata
E. moluccana
E. tereticornis
Exccarpos cupressiformis
Glycine clandestina
Glycine tabacina
Goodenia hederacea
Hardenbergia violacea
Hibbertia diffusa
Hypericum gramineum
Indigofera australia
Lissanthe strigosa
Melaleuca decora
Eremophila debilis
Oxalis exilis
Phyllanthus filicaulis
Pratia purpurascens
Solanum pungetium
Vernonia cinerea
Wahlenbergia gracilis

Shale/Gravel Transitional Forest

(Protected in Windsor Downs NR & Scheyville NP. No protection was afforded to it in Penrith/Blacktown area until it was listed as an Endangered Ecological Community in NSW in 2002.)

Micromyrtus minutiflora (Vulnerable)
Dodonaea falcata (R. Vulnerable)
Dodonaea viscosa (two sub-species)
Eucalyptus fibrosa
E. moluccana
E. tereticornis
Acacia decurrens
Exocarpos cupressiformis

Ironbark/Scribbly Gum Forest (Intergrade community - unknown distribution outside ADI)

Pultenaea parviflora (Endangered)
Persoonia nutans (Endangered)
Dillwynia tenuifolia (Rare)
Micromyrtus minutiflora (Rare)
Dodonaea falcata (Inadequately conserved)
Prostanthera scutellarioides (Inadequately conserved)
Eucalyptus fibrosa
E. sclerophylla
E. parramattensis
Melaleuca decora
M. nodosa
Acacia elongata
Allocasuarina littoralis
Grevillea juniperina

Ironbark/Scribbly Gum/Red Bloodwood Forest

(Particularly rare - not conserved in western Sydney)

Red Bloodwood - Corymbia gummifera (Rare)
Eucalyptus sclerophylla
E. sparsifolia/obonga
Eriostemon myoporoides
Banksia Spinulosa
Grevillea mucronulata (Rare)
Leptospernum trinervium
(also species found in Ironbark-Scribbly Gum Forest above)

Wetlands/River Flat Forests Swamp Woodland

Melaleuca decora

Sedgeland

Acacia paradoxa (Rare)
Eleocharis sphacelata
Cumbungi -Thypa orientalis
Gratiola pedunculata
Ajuga australia
Centella asiatica
Christella dentata
Pellaea falcata

 

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