page_title: Nightcap Range
section_title: Notable flora
hierarchical_section_title: Nightcap Range / Notable flora
caption_attribution_description: English: Bushfire in the slope above Tuntable Falls, Nightcap Range, New South Wales, Australia, 8 November 2019 (Tony Rees photograph)
context_page_description: The Nightcap Range is a mountain range located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, in the area between Lismore and the New South Wales-Queensland border. It includes Mount Burrell and Mount Nardi as well as containing the Nightcap National Park. The range is mainly covered with relict warm temperate rainforest and contains several rare and/or endemic species, most notably the Nightcap oak and the Minyon quandong.
context_section_description: The range is the only known locality for the Nightcap oak, Eidothea hardeniana, a member of the Proteaceae, with a known population only around 100 wild plants, recognised and named in 2002. Much of its habitat was devastated by a bushfire on the range (the Mount Nardi bushfire) in November 2019. The range is also notable for containing the majority of known sites for the extremely restricted Minyon quandong, a medium sized tree in the Elaeocarpaceae, which had been recognised as a distinct species for some time but formally described only in 2008.
caption: Bushfire in the Nightcap Range, 8 November 2019
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