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Plants of the Fraser Coast Region

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Breynia oblongifolia     (Muell.Arg.) Muell.Arg.

This native shrub is commonly known as coffee bush.

Breynia oblongifolia is described as a "dicot" in the Phyllanthaceae family.

In the Queensland Nature Conservation Act it is classified as Least Concern. Under the Federal Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act it is not classified.

Fruit eaten by brown cuckoo dove (Macropygia amboinensis). 

It has been recorded in the Wide Bay district in the Queensland Herbarium Census and is listed as occurring in the Fraser Coast region in Queensland Herbarium Wildlife Online.

Reported at 66 Fraser Coast localities: Aldershot, Antigua, Bauple, Bauple Forest, Beaver Rock, Beelbi Creek, Bidwill, Boompa, Boonooroo Plains, Booral, Brooweena, Burrum Heads, Burrum River, Craignish, Doongul, Duckinwilla, Dundathu, Dundowran Beach, Gigoomgan, Glenorchy, Glenwood, Gootchie, Granville, Gundiah, Howard, Island Plantation, Kanigan, Kawungan, K'gari, Magnolia, Malarga, Maryborough, Mount Urah, Mungar, Owanyilla, Pacific Haven, Pialba, Point Vernon, Poona, River Heads, Scarness, St Helens, St Mary, Sunshine Acres, Susan River, Takura, Talegalla Weir, Tandora, Teddington, Teebar, Tiaro, Tinana, Tinana South, Tinnanbar, Toogoom, Torquay, Tuan, Tuan Forest, Urangan, Urraween, Walkers Point, Walligan, Wondunna, Woocoo, Yengarie, Yerra.


Fraser Coast distribution based on unverified field reports.


             AVH

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