Editing Goobang National Park (section)

==Flora==

There are 459 species recorded in the park, several that are threatened.<ref name="Goobang National Park plan of management 2001"/> ''Tylophora linearis'' is listed as vulnerable according to the TCS ACT 1995 and endangered according to the EPBC ACT 1999. ''Eriostemon ericifolius'' is vulnerable based on TCS ACT 1995 and ''Astrotricha linearis'' only known record west of the Great Dividing Range.<ref>GOOBANG Vegetation Survey, Data from the Atlas of NSW database: VIS flora survey module,
Version 11 /2013</ref>  ''Pomaderris queeslandica'' endangered TSC ACT 1995 and ''Philotheca ericifoia'' vulnerable EPBC ACT 1999.<ref>NSW BIONET 2015</ref>

There are 135 ecological communities in the South West Slope bioregion, most are considered poorly protected.(4) There are 11 ecological communities in the park, five of which are only protected at Goobang. These include red stringybark (''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'') woodland found on siliceous hillslopes of the Hervey Range.
Red stringybark (''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha''), long leaved box (''Eucalyptus goniocalyx'') black cypress pine (''Callitris endicher''), hummock grass (''Triodia scariosa''), shrubby low woodland found on siliceous volcanic and sedimentary ranges.
Red ironbark (''Eucalyptus fibrosa'') in association with black cypress (''Callitris endlicheri'') shrubby woodland found on shallow sandy soils derived from sandstone. 
Red ironbark (''Eucalyptus fibrosa''), red stringybark (''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'') tumbledown gum (''Eucalyptus dealbata'') heathland found on siliceous ridges and scribbly gum (''Eucalyptus rosii'') dominated open forest in association with black cypress pine and red ironbark.<ref name="scholar.google.com.au">Benson J.S. (2008) New South Wales Vegetation Classification and Assessment: Part 2 Plant communities of the NSW South-western Slopes Bioregion and update of NSW Western Plains plant communities, Version 2 of the NSWVCA database 
https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar_url?url=http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/29346/benson_2008_NSWVCA.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm3K7I9q9ZaZSfcRUMhUL8ivHEXyaQ&nossl=1&oi=scholarr&ei=3sNiVfW2OYLbmAXOioGoAw&ved=0CBsQgAMoADAA  accessed May 2015</ref>

A further four communities that are protected in Goobang are considered to be of significance.
Mugga ironbark (''Eucalyptus sideroxylon''), black cypress, red stringybark, Blakely's red gum (''Eucalyptus blakelyi'') and red ironbark woodland which are found on hillslopes and in valleys on the ranges. 
Buloke (''Allocasuarina leuhnannii'') and white cypress pine (''Callitris glaucophylla'') woodlandis found on alkaline soils. 
Riparian Blakely's red gum, apple box (''Eucalyptus bridesana''), yellow box (''Eucalyptus melliodora'') and occasionally inland grey box (''Eucalyptus macrocarpa''), with shrub, sedge and grass tall open forest in valleys. 
White box (''Eucalyptus albens''), with black cypress and red gum (''Eucalyptus polyanthemos'') shrubby woodlands in the hills.<ref name="scholar.google.com.au"/>