# 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

Species listed as occurring in the NSW EEC Weeping Myall Woodlands :
Acacia homalophyllaAcacia oswaldiiAcacia pendulaAcacia victoriaeAlectryon oleifoliusAlternanthera denticulataAmaranthus macrocarpusAmyema quandangApophyllum anomalumArthropodium minusAsperula confertaAstrebla lappaceaAstrebla pectinataAtalaya hemiglaucaAtriplex leptocarpaAtriplex nummulariaAtriplex semibaccataAtriplex spinibracteaAustrodanthonia caespitosaAustrodanthonia setaceaAustrostipa aristiglumis
Austrostipa scabraBoerhavia dominiiBrachyscome linearilobaCalocephalus sonderiCalotis hispidulaCalotis scabiosifoliaCapparis lasianthaCapparis mitchelliiCasuarina cristataCentipeda cunninghamiiChloris truncataChrysocephalum apiculatumConvolvulus erubescensDactyloctenium radulansDaucus glochidiatusDichanthium sericeumDiplachne fuscaEinadia nutansEnchylaena tomentosaEnteropogon acicularisEragrostis parviflora
Eremophila bignoniifloraEremophila maculataEriochloa sp.Exocarpos aphyllusGoodenia glaucaGoodenia pusillifloraHomopholis prolutaHypoxis pusillaIseilema membranaceumIsoetopsis graminifoliaIxiolaena leptolepisMaireana aphyllaMaireana ciliataMaireana decalvansMaireana excavataMaireana pentagonaMarsilea drummondiiMyoporum montanumMyriocephalus rhizocephalusNitraria billardiereiOxalis perennans
Panicum decompositumPlantago varia (complex)Poa fordeanaPortulaca oleraceaRhagodia spinescensRhodanthe corymbifloraRhodanthe floribundaRhodanthe pygmaeaSalsola kaliScerolaena brachypteraSclerolaena muricataSclerolaena stelligeraSida corrugataSida trichopodaSolanum esurialeSporobolus caroliSwainsona procumbensTeucrium racemosumTribulus terrestrisTriptilodiscus pygmaeusVittadinia cuneata :
* Plants found and photographed NSW Weeping Myall Woodlands
* Leiocarpa panaetioides
* Alectryon oleifolius
* Myoporum montanum
* Capparis lasiantha in front of Warrior Bush, Apophylla anomalum, and both under a weeping myall, Acacia pendula.

## Cases in NSW involving Weeping Myall Woodlands

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