page_title: Charcoal Tank Nature Reserve
section_title: Flora
hierarchical_section_title: Charcoal Tank Nature Reserve / Flora
caption_attribution_description: w:Callitris endlicheri (Black Cypress)
context_page_description: The Charcoal Tank Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve in the central western region of New South Wales, Australia. The 86.4-hectare reserve is situated 10 kilometres south of West Wyalong and may be accessed via the Newell Highway and The Charcoal Tank Road. The reserve is an important refuge for native flora and fauna in a highly fragmented landscape, one in which the majority of the original vegetation has been removed.
context_section_description: Even though the Reserve is small there are three distinct communities of vegetation. The dominant community is mallee-broombush made up of Melaleuca uncinata (broombush), Eucalyptus polybractea (blue mallee), Eucalyptus viridis (green mallee) and Eucalyptus behriana (bull mallee). Two notable native shrubs sharing the mallee-broombush community are Kunzea parvifolia (purple kunzea) and Acacia rhigiophylla (dagger-leaved wattle). The second largest group of vegetation is a eucalyptus-callitris mix; including Eucalyptus microcarpa (inland grey box), Eucalyptus sideroxylon, and Callitris endlicheri  (black cypress pine). The eucalyptus and callitris community has a well-developed understory that includes native shrubs such as Cassinia laevis (cough bush), Santalum acuminatum (quandong) and Acacia hakeoides (hakea wattle). Understory and groundcover in other areas of the Reserve has been lost or badly degraded. The smallest community of vegetation is made up of Callitris endlicheri (black cypress pine), Eucalyptus Dwyeri (Dwyer's red-gum) and Acacia doratoxylon (currawang).
  The dominant community of mallee and broombush is listed as critically endangered under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act, with only two other Nature Reserves in NSW protecting similar communities. Mallee and broombush have been extensively harvested in the region since European settlement.
caption: Callitris endlicheri (black cypress)
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