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Contents

• Download the Recovery Plan as a PDF file
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Executive Summary
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Legislative Context
  • 2.1 Legal status
  • 2.2 Recovery Plan preparation
  • 2.3 Recovery Plan implementation
  • 2.4 Relationship to other legislation
  • 2.5 Key Threatening Processes
  • 2.6 Critical Habitat
  • 2.7 Environmental assessment
• 3 Conservation Status
• 4 Description
  • 4.1 Description
  • 4.2 Taxonomic Significance
• 5 Distribution and Habitat
  • 5.1 Historical and current distribution
  • 5.2 Tenure
  • 5.3 Habitat
  • 5.4 Geology and Soils
  • 5.5 Aspect and slope
  • 5.6 Climate
• 6 Biology and Ecology
  • 6.1 Life Cycle and Habit
  • 6.2 Phenology
  • 6.3 Reproductive Biology
  • 6.4 Population Structure
  • 6.5 Response to Disturbance
• 7 Previous Management Actions
  • 7. 1 Conservation and Research Statement and Species Recovery Plan (ANCA Plan)
  • 7. 2 Implementation of ANCA Plan
  • 7.3 Southern Regional Forest Agreement
  • 7.4 Recent Research
• 8 Management Issues
  • 8.1 Level of current understanding
  • 8.2 Threatening processes
  • 8.3 Social and economic issues
  • 8.4 Translocation/Ex-situ Conservation
  • 8.5 Species Ability to recover
• 9 Recovery Objectives and Performance Criteria
  • 9.1 Overall objective
  • 9.2 Overall recovery performance criteria
• 10 Reservation/Conservation of Known Populations
  • 10.1 Objective
  • 10.2 Performance criteria
  • 10.3 Recovery Actions
• 11 Threat and Habitat Management
  • 11.1 Objective
  • 11.2 Performance criteria
  • 11.3 Recovery Actions
• 12 Survey
  • 12.1 Objective
  • 12.2 Performance criteria
  • 12.3 Recovery Actions
• 13 Research and Monitoring
  • 13.1 Objective
  • 13.2 Performance criteria
  • 13.3 Recovery Actions
• 14 Community Education, Awareness and Involvement
  • 14.1 Objective
  • 14.2 Performance criteria
  • 14.3 Recovery Actions
• 15 Implementation
  • 15.1 Implementation Schedule
  • 15.2 Implementation Costs
• 16 Preparation Details
  • 16.1 Date of last amendment
  • 16.2 Review date
• 17 Contacts
• 18 References

Appendices

• Appendix 1: Known distribution of Pterostylis gibbosa (site details)
• Appendix 2: Vegetation structure at sites
• Appendix 3: Implementation costs

List of Figures

• Figure 1: Distinguishing features of P. gibbosa
• Figure 2: Distribution of P. gibbosa sites
• Figure 3: Southern distribution of P. gibbosa sites

List of Plates

• Plate 1: Flowering P. gibbosa plants
• Plate 2: P. gibbosa flower
• Plate 3: P. gibbosa leaf rosettes
• Plate 4: Woodland habitat of P. gibbosa at Albion Park

List of Tables

• Table 1: Summary of implementation costs
• Table 2: Implementation schedule

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