VOLUME 2: Vegetation Community Profiles - Coffs Harbour City ...

CH_WSF18Floristic summaryLayer Height * Cover * Dominant SpeciesTallest 10-40 80 Eucalyptus campanulata, Eucalyptus pilularis, Eucalyptus carnea.Mid 0.5 – 5 70 Callicoma serratifolia, Caldcluvia paniculosa, Cryptocarya rigida,Doryphora sassafras, Drymophila moorei, Orites excelsa, Ripogonumelseyanum, Pilidiostigma glabrum.Lower 0.1 – 1.2 5 Blechnum cartilagineum, Entolasia stricta, Lomandra longifolia,Cordyline rubra.* Data collated from 1 of 2 full floristic sitesStructural and floristic variationsThe frequency of New England Blackbutt (Eucalyptus campanulata) is varied from dominance to co-dominanceand in some sites occurring as an associated species.Species richnessNumber of plots 2Total species 44Average number of species 39 ±3.5Conservation statusThis community is reserved in Bindarri National Park (289ha), Bindarri State Conservation Area (2ha), and DorrigoNational Park (83ha).TenureArea (ha)Freehold 86National Park 372NSW State Forest 175State Conservation Area 2TOTAL 635Relationship to other communitiesClosely related to the CH_WSF09 (Northern Escarpment Blackbutt - Apple Wet Ferny Forest) and often gradesinto this community as New England Blackbutt becomes less common. Drier occurrences of CH_WSF18have affinities with CH_DOF07 (Escarpment New England Blackbutt Dry Forest) and CH_DOF01 (Coast andEscarpment Blackbutt Dry Forest) and may occur adjacent to this community. CH_WSF18 can be distinguishedfrom CH_DOF07 by having a characteristically moist mid and lower layer. A high cover of New England Blackbutt(Eucalyptus campanulata) is a key diagnostic feature of this community where it becomes dominant or codominantwith other canopy species. In some locations further from the escarpment rim this community gradesinto CH_WSF07 (Plateau and Escarpment Rim Brush Box – Blackbutt Wet Forest). In these locations New EnglandBlackbutt becomes less common and is replaced with a higher frequency of Coastal Blackbutt (Eucalyptuspilularis) and Brush Box (Lophostemon confertus).EquivalentsBiometric:Other:Blackbutt tall moist forest of the coastal ranges of the central and southern North Coast (NR126)N7b - Moist Blackbutt (Fisher et al.1996)Vegetation Mapping of the Coffs Harbour Local Government Area Page 177