Native plant list released

The National Parks and Wildlife Service has released a list of plant species which are native to the Peninsula.

The service's scientific committee "found that the Umina Coastal Sandplain Woodland is the name given to the plant community recorded on coastal sands on the Woy Woy Peninsula ... characterised by the following species".

"In view of the small size of existing remnants, and the threat of further disturbance, the scientific committee is of the opinion that Umina Coastal Sandplain Woodland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion is likely to become extinct in nature unless factors threatening its survival or evolutionary development cease to operate, and that listing as an endangered ecological community is warranted."

Acacia elata (mountain cedar wattle)

Acacia floribunda (white sallow wattle)

Acacia irrorata

Acacia longifolia (Sydney golden wattle)

Acacia suaveolens (sweet scented wattle)

Acacia ulicifolia (prickly moses)

Aiantum aethtopicum

Allocasuarina littoralis (black she-oak)

Allocasuarina torulosa (forest oak)

Angophora floribunda (rough-barked apple)

Aotus ericoides

Banksia ericifolia (heath-leafed banksia)

Banksia integrifolia

Banksia serrata (old man banksia)

Billardiera scandens

Bossiaea ensata (small leafless bossiaea)

Breynia oblongifolia

Caesia parviflora (grass lily)

Cassytha glabella (slender devil's twine)

Cayratia clematidea (slender grape)

Cheilanthes sieberi (mulga fern)

Clematis glycinoides (forest clematis)

Clerodendrum tomentosum (hairy clerodendrum)

Commelina cyanea (scurvy weed)

Cymbopogon refractus (barbed-wire grass)

Dianella caerulea (blue flax lily)

Dodonaea triquetra (common hop bush)

Duboisia myoporoides (corkwood)

Echinopogon ovatus (hedgehog grass)

Elaeocarpus reticulatus (blueberry ash)

Entolasia stricta

Eriostemon australasius (pink wax flower)

Eucalyptus botryoides (southern mahogany)

Eucalyptus paniculata (grey ironbark)

Eustrephus latifolius (wombat berry)

Exocarpus cypressiformis (cherry ballart)

Glochidion ferdinandi (cheese tree)

Glycine clandestina (love creeper)

Gompholobium latifolium (broad-leaf wedge pea)

Gonocarpus teucrioides (germander raspwort)

Hakea sericea (bushy needlebush)

Hardenbergia violacea (false sarsaparilla)

Hibbertia scandens (golden guinea flower)

Hibbertia vestita

Imperata cylindrica (blady grass)

Isolepis nodosus

Kennedia rubicunda (dusky coral pea)

Lasiopetalum macrophyllum

Leptospermum polygalifolium (lemon-scented tea-tree)

Leptospermum trinervium (paperbark tea-tree)

Lomandra longifolia (mat rush)

Macrozamia communis (burrawang)

Melaleuca quinquenervia (broad-leafed paperbark)

Monotoca elliptica (tree broom heath)

Notelaea longifolia (mock olive)

Pandorea pandorana (wonga wonga vine)

Persoonia levis (smooth geebung)

Persoonia linearis (narrow-leafed geebung)

Phyllanthus hirtellus (thyme spurge)

Pittosporum revolutum (rough-fruit pittosporum)

Platysace lanceolata (native parsnip)

Podocarpus spinulosus (plum pine)

Pomax umbellata

Pseuderanthemum variabile (pastel flower)

Pteridium esculentum (bracken)

Rapanea variabilis (mutton wood)

Restio tetraphyllus

Sarcopetalum harveyanum (pearl vine)

Smilax glyciphylla (native sarsaparilla)

Stephania japonica (snake vine)

Themeda australis (kangaroo grass)

Veronica plebeia

Viola hederacea (native violet)

Xanthorrhoea arborea (broad-leaf grass-tree)

Xylomelum pyriforma (woody pear)

December 13