 Avian and mammalian species are attracted to the reproductive cone structure, insects are involved in the pollination of the female plant.The birds include a western rosella subspecies ("moyadong, Platycercus icterotis icterotis") which eat the fleshy part of the seed cone, other birds known to eat the seeds include the emu, common bronzewing pigeon ("Phaps chalcoptera"), white-tailed black cockatoo, and common species silvereye, grey butcherbird and raven ("wodang"; "Corvus coronoides").Mammal species recorded at the plant are the western grey kangaroo ("Macropus fuliginosus"), western brush wallaby ("Macropus irma"), quokka ("Setonix brachyurus"), common brushtail possum ("Trichosurus vulpecula") and western quoll ("Dasyurus geoffroii").