Threatened Species
Threatened Species – Focus on Phaius
Cooloola’s amazing biodiversity includes many threatened or endangered plant, animal and bird species.
In 2024, Cooloola Coastcare completed a series of surveys to discover, describe and protect local populations of Australia’s largest ground orchid, the endangered Southern Swamp Orchid, Phaius australis (aka Phaius tankervilleae var australis). This project has received funding support from the Queensland Government’s Community Sustainability Action grant program, under the Threatened Species Recovery Program.
We gratefully acknowledge this funding, and also the valued collaboration of Gympie Regional Council, the Department of Defence, and the Queensland Herbarium, as well as a generous in-kind contribution from Red Ash Consulting, Bundaberg.
A program to protect and restore the orchid populations is on-going.
The Project Team
Phaius australis
Australia’s largest ground orchid, the endangered Southern Swamp Orchid, Phaius
australis (aka Phaius tankervilleae var australis).
Contacts
For more information, contact Linda.Tabe@cooloolacoastcare.org.au