Weeping Myall Woodlands

The Weeping Myall Woodlands is an endangered ecological community, under the EPBC Act of the Commonwealth of Australia. It is found in inland Queensland and inland New South Wales, on alluvial plains west of the Great Dividing Range. It takes its name from Acacia pendula, the weeping myall.

The Weeping Myall woodlands ecological community in New South Wales has been named as the Myall Woodland in the Darling Riverine Plains, Brigalow Belt South, Cobar Peneplain, Murray-Darling Depression, Riverina and NSW South Western Slopes bioregions.

Conservation status
This ecological community has been listed as endangered under the Commonwealth EPBC Act since 7 January 2009. The key threats are clearing and ongoing degradation since this ecological community occurs on highly fertile and arable soils. Other threats are overgrazing and weed invasion.

In New South Wales it is also listed as an endangered ecological community, first under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and now under the Biodiversity Act of 2016.

Distribution
It occurs in the IBRA regions of Riverina, NSW South Western Slopes, Darling Riverine Plains, Brigalow Belt South, Brigalow Belt North, Murray-Darling Depression, Nandewar and Cobar Peneplain, in small pockets.

Species listed
1. Acacia homalophylla

2. Acacia oswaldii

3. Acacia pendula

4. Acacia victoriae

5. Alectryon oleifolius

6. Alternanthera denticulata

7. Amaranthus macrocarpus

8. Amyema quandang

9. Apophyllum anomalum

10. Arthropodium minus

11. Asperula conferta

12. Astrebla lappacea

13. Astrebla pectinata

14. Atalaya hemiglauca

15. Atriplex leptocarpa

16. Atriplex nummularia

17. Atriplex semibaccata

18. Atriplex spinibractea

19. Austrodanthonia caespitosa

20. Austrodanthonia setacea

21. Austrostipa aristiglumis

1. Austrostipa scabra

2. Boerhavia dominii

3. Brachyscome lineariloba

4. Calocephalus sonderi

5. Calotis hispidula

6. Calotis scabiosifolia

7. Capparis lasiantha

8. Capparis mitchellii

9. Casuarina cristata

10. Centipeda cunninghamii

11. Chloris truncata

12. Chrysocephalum apiculatum

13. Convolvulus erubescens

14. Dactyloctenium radulans

15. Daucus glochidiatus

16. Dichanthium sericeum

17. Diplachne fusca

18. Einadia nutans

19. Enchylaena tomentosa

20. Enteropogon acicularis

21. Eragrostis parviflora

1. Eremophila bignoniiflora

2. Eremophila maculata

3. Eriochloa sp.

4. Exocarpos aphyllus

5. Goodenia glauca

6. Goodenia pusilliflora

7. Homopholis proluta

8. Hypoxis pusilla

9. Iseilema membranaceum

10. Isoetopsis graminifolia

11. Ixiolaena leptolepis

12. Maireana aphylla

13. Maireana ciliata

14. Maireana decalvans

15. Maireana excavata

16. Maireana pentagona

17. Marsilea drummondii

18. Myoporum montanum

19. Myriocephalus rhizocephalus

20. Nitraria billardierei

21. Oxalis perennans

1. Panicum decompositum

2. Plantago varia (complex)

3. Poa fordeana

4. Portulaca oleracea

5. Rhagodia spinescens

6. Rhodanthe corymbiflora

7. Rhodanthe floribunda

8. Rhodanthe pygmaea

9. Salsola kali

10. Scerolaena brachyptera

11. Sclerolaena muricata

12. Sclerolaena stelligera

13. Sida corrugata

14. Sida trichopoda

15. Solanum esuriale

16. Sporobolus caroli

17. Swainsona procumbens

18. Teucrium racemosum

19. Tribulus terrestris

20. Triptilodiscus pygmaeus

21. Vittadinia cuneata

Cases in NSW involving Weeping Myall Woodlands

 * 1) Plath v Hunter Valley Property Management Pty Limited - NSW Caselaw (concerned the destruction of a Weeping Myall community in the Hunter Valley)
 * 2) Chief Executive, Office of Environment and Heritage v Traikaero Pty Ltd; Chief Executive, Office of Environment and Heritage v Woods - NSW Caselaw