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Table 2a: Description of the main Box-Ironbark EVCs in the study area<br />

EVC Name Structure Main Canopy Species Main Shrub and Ground Layer Species Rainfall<br />

(mm)<br />

Northern Goldfields Box-<br />

Ironbark Forest<br />

Western Goldfields Box-<br />

Ironbark Forest<br />

North-eastern Hills Box-<br />

Ironbark Forest<br />

Northern Goldfields<br />

Heathy Dry Forest<br />

Northern Foothills<br />

Heathy Dry Forest<br />

North-eastern Hills<br />

Heathy Dry Forest<br />

Northern Goldfields<br />

Grassy Dry Forest<br />

Northern Foothills Grassy<br />

Dry Forest<br />

open-forest red ironbark, grey box, red<br />

box, yellow gum<br />

open-forest red box, red ironbark, grey<br />

box, yellow gum<br />

golden wattle, gold-dust wattle, twiggy bush-pea, shiny<br />

everlasting, drooping cassinia, spiky guinea-flower, wattle matrush,<br />

black-anther flax-lily, bristly wallaby-grass<br />

golden wattle, gold-dust wattle, hedge wattle, drooping cassinia,<br />

narrow-leaf bitter-pea, spiky guinea-flower, wattle mat-rush,<br />

small mat-rush, black-anther flax-lily, bristly wallaby-grass,<br />

slender rice-flower<br />

open-forest mugga ironbark, grey box golden wattle, gorse bitter-pea, slender rice-flower, grey guineaflower,<br />

shiny everlasting, black-anther flax-lily, silvertop wallabygrass,<br />

common wheat-grass, rough spear-grass, stinking<br />

pennywort<br />

open-forest red stringybark, red box daphne heath, mountain grevillea, common rice-flower, common<br />

beard-heath, common hovea, blue finger-flower, silvertop<br />

wallaby-grass, grey tussock-grass, black’s goodenia, milkmaids,<br />

tall sundew<br />

open-forest red stringybark, red box,<br />

long-leaf box<br />

open-forest red stringybark, hill red<br />

gum, red box<br />

open-forest red stringybark, red box,<br />

yellow box<br />

open-forest red stringybark, yellow box,<br />

red box, long-leaf box<br />

daphne heath, gorse bitter-pea, slender rice-flower, common<br />

hovea, silvertop wallaby-grass, grey tussock-grass, stinking<br />

pennywort, blue pincushion, tall sundew<br />

daphne heath, grey guinea-flower, silvertop wallaby-grass, small<br />

poranthera, stinking pennywort, common woodrush<br />

grey tussock-grass, blue finger-flower, kangaroo grass, common<br />

woodrush, magenta stork’s-bill, short-hair plume-grass<br />

grey tussock-grass, tall bluebell, stinking pennywort, small St.<br />

John’s wort, green rock-fern, cotton fireweed, magenta stork’sbill,<br />

austral cranesbill, common woodrush<br />

Environment Conservation <strong>Council</strong> – Box-Ironbark Forests and Woodlands Investigation 3<br />

<strong>Appendix</strong> 2<br />

Altitude (m) Landform/geology/soils Distribution<br />

400-600 220 (mean) Gently undulating rises to low<br />

hills. Shallow stony soils from<br />

Ordovician sediments<br />

450-650 270 (mean) Gently undulating rises to low<br />

hills. Shallow stony soils from<br />

Ordovician sediments<br />

550-700 200 (mean) Gently undulating rises to low<br />

hills. Shallow stony soils from<br />

Ordovician sediments<br />

450-650 250 (mean) Upper slopes and ridgetops of<br />

undulating terrain and low hills.<br />

Shallow stony soils from<br />

Ordovician and Lower<br />

Devonian sediments<br />

500-700 370 (mean) Upper slopes and ridgetops of<br />

undulating rises and rolling hills;<br />

lower slopes of mountain ranges.<br />

Shallow stony soils from<br />

Ordovician and Cambrian<br />

sediments<br />

550-700 320 (mean) On ridgetops and plateaus. Soils<br />

derived from granite or contact<br />

metamorphosed Ordovician<br />

sediments<br />

450-650 295 (mean) On upper slopes and ridgetops<br />

of low hills. Often close to<br />

Heathy Dry Forest (Northern<br />

Goldfields). Shallow, stony soils<br />

from Ordovician and Lower<br />

Devonian sediments<br />

550-700 440 (mean) Sheltered aspects on upper<br />

slopes and ridgetops of rolling<br />

hills and lower slopes of ranges.<br />

Shallow, stony soils derived<br />

from Ordovician and Cambrian<br />

sediments<br />

Rushworth to Heathcote;<br />

around Bendigo; Dunolly to<br />

Inglewood; Puckapunyal<br />

Military Area<br />

Dunolly to south of<br />

Maryborough; south of St<br />

Arnaud; Stawell<br />

Euroa to Chiltern<br />

South of Bendigo; Rushworth<br />

to Heathcote; north of<br />

Dunolly<br />

Castlemaine; south of St<br />

Arnaud; Pyrenees; Euroa to<br />

Chiltern<br />

Warby Ranges to Chiltern<br />

North of Heathcote; northwest<br />

of Dunolly<br />

Pyrenees; south end of St<br />

Arnaud Range<br />

<strong>Appendix</strong> 2

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