Targeted Vegetation Survey of Floodplains and Lower Slopes on the ...

CCA08 Far North Coast <strong>Targeted</strong> <strong>Vegetation</strong> <strong>Survey</strong>
Group 2–Freshwater, seasonally/permanently inundated soils ......................................................................................................................................80
Community 10 Broad-leaved Paperbark–Swamp Oak–fern/sedge Swamp Sclerophyll Forest ..................................................................80
Community 11 Broad-leaved Paperbark–Pink-flowered Doughwood Swamp Sclerophyll Open Forest .............................................83
Community 12 Broad-leaved Paperbark–Swamp Oak Ferny Swamp Sclerophyll Forest ................................................................................86
Community 13 Alluvial plain Broad-leaved Paperbark–Swamp Mahogany–Saw Sedge/Swamp Water Fern Swamp
Sclerophyll Forest .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................89
Community 14 Swamp Mahogany–Broad-leaved Paperbark–Bangalow Palm–sedge/fern Swamp Sclerophyll Forest ............92
Community 15 Bangalow Palm–Swamp Box–Cabbage Tree Palm–Weeping Myrtle Alluvial Riparian Forest ..................................95
Community 16 Tea-tree (Leptospermum spp.)–Sporodanthus interruptus Wet Heath ............................................................................................97
Community 17 Leptospermum liversidgei–Wallum Bottlebrush–Grass Tree–Heath-leaved Banksia Wallum
Wet Heath Complex ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................100
Community 18 Coral Fern (Gleichenia dicarpa) Fernl<strong>and</strong> ...................................................................................................................................................103
Community 19 Broad-leaved Paperbark–Coast Banksia–Red Ash Dunal Scrubl<strong>and</strong> ......................................................................................105
Community 20 Swamp Box–Broad-leaved Paperbark–rush/fern Swamp Sclerophyll Forest ...................................................................108
Community 21 Broad-leaved Paperbark–Swamp Oak–Rush Saline Swamp Sclerophyll Open Forest ...............................................111
Community 22 Common Reed–Black Bog-Rush Reedl<strong>and</strong>/Rushl<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> Coastal Lagoons <strong>and</strong> Saline Swamps ..........................113
Community 23 Swamp Box–Broad-leaved Paperbark–Swamp Mahogany Swamp Sclerophyll Forest .............................................115
Community 24 Swamp Ricegrass (Leersia hex<strong>and</strong>ra), Lepironia articulata –Smartweed–Juncus usitatus
Swampy Meadow .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................118
Community 25 Swamp Ricegrass–Bolboschoenus caldwellii–Schoenoplectus validus–Cyperus exaltatus
Freshwater Wetl<strong>and</strong> .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................120
Community 26 Hinterl<strong>and</strong> Narrow-leaved Paperbark–Tea-tree Backswamp Shrubl<strong>and</strong>s–Sedgel<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong>
Alluvial Backswamps .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................122
Community 27 Weeping Myrtle–Water Gum Floodplain Riparian Forest .............................................................................................................124
Community 28 Narrow-leaved Paperbark–Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Sclerophyll Shrubl<strong>and</strong> ...........................................................126
Community 29 Swamp Box–Narrow-leaved Paperbark–Broad-leaved Paperbark Alluvial Swamp Sclerophyll Forest ............128
Community 30 Middle Richmond Freshwater Wetl<strong>and</strong>s .................................................................................................................................................131
Group 3–Coastal barrier s<strong>and</strong> sites <strong>and</strong> headl<strong>and</strong> sites ....................................................................................................................................................132
Community 31 Scribbly Gum–Red Mahogany–Brush Box dry sclerophyll Open to Closed Forest on
Coastal Barrier S<strong>and</strong>s .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................132
Community 32 Blackbutt–Turpentine Open Forest Complex.......................................................................................................................................135
Community 33 Coast Cypress Pine on Dunes <strong>and</strong> Ridges ..............................................................................................................................................138
Community 34 Coast Banksia Frontal Dune Open Forest on Holocene Dunes .................................................................................................141
Community 35 Brush Box Lowl<strong>and</strong> Rainforest ........................................................................................................................................................................144
Community 36 Coast Wattle–Coast Tea-tree–Coast Banksia Shrubl<strong>and</strong> on Holocene Dunes <strong>and</strong> Ridges ......................................148
Community 37 Kangaroo Grass headl<strong>and</strong> Grassl<strong>and</strong> .........................................................................................................................................................150
Community 38 Scribbly Gum–Old Man Banksia–Slender Tea-tree Heathy Low Open Sclerophyll Forest to Shrubl<strong>and</strong> ........152
Community 39 Wallum Banksia Dry Heath ...............................................................................................................................................................................155
Group 4–Forests on alluvium or fine-textured soils <strong>of</strong> coastal floodplains <strong>and</strong> foothills .............................................................................158
Community 40. <strong>Lower</strong> Richmond Mesic Successional wet/swamp Sclerophyll Forest/Rainforest .......................................................158
Community 41 <strong>Lower</strong> Richmond Brush Box–Pink Bloodwood–Grey Ironbark Mesic Tall Open Forest ..............................................162
Community 42 Tweed–Brunswick Valley Brush Box–Blackbutt–Pink Bloodwood–Tallowwood Foothill
Wet Sclerophyll Forest ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................165
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