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

CH_H11Floristic summaryLayer Height (m) Cover (%) Dominant SpeciesTallest 15-30 60 Leptospermum polygalifolium subsp. montanum, Schizomeria ovata,Doryphora sassasfras, Tristaniopsis collina.Middle 1-3 15 Tasmannia insipida.Lower 0-1 2 Tripladenia cunninghammii, Lomandra spicata.* Data collated from 1 of 1 full floristic site.Species richnessNumber of plots 1Total species 47Average number of speciesConservation statusThis community is reserved in Dorrigo National Park (1ha) within the Local Government AreaTenureArea (ha)Freehold 2National Park 3NSW State Forest 1TOTAL 6Threatened and Rare plants:Hakea ochropteraRelationship to other communitiesThe occurrences on the Dorrigo Escarpment have affinities with the adjoining warm temperate rainforestcommunities including CH_RF11 (Escarpment and Lowland Bangalow – Carabeen – Black Booyong - PalmGully Rainforest) and cool temperate rainforest including CH_RF02 (Plateau Beech Coachwood Cool TemperateRainforest)LocationsThis community is located in moist areas on upper slopes to mountain summits over 900 metres above sea levelon soils derived from metasediments around Mt Moombil in Dorrigo National Park.Page 290Vegetation Mapping of the Coffs Harbour Local Government Area