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

CH_FW04Floristic summaryLayer Height Cover Dominant SpeciesEmergent 2-4 15 Callistemon pachyphyllus, Melaleuca quinquenervia.Ground 0-1.8 80 Baumea rubiginosa, Chorizandra sphaerocephala, Lepyrodiascariosa, Leptocarpus tenax, Philydrum lanuginosum.* Data collated from 2 of 2 full floristic sitesStructural and floristic variationsSometimes a dense shrub layer of Wallum Bottlebrush (Callistemon pachyphyllus) forms over the top of a densesedgeland layer.Species richnessNumber of plots 2Total species 17Average number of species 10 ±2.1Conservation statusThis community is reserved in Coffs Coast Regional Park (1ha), Garby Nature Reserve (2ha) and Yuraygir NationalPark (9ha)TenureArea (ha)Freehold 1National Park 1Nature Reserve 2TOTAL 5Relationship to other communitiesRelated to several wet wallum sedgeland communities including CH_FW03 (Coastal Wallum Baumea Sedgeland),and CH_FW07 (Jointed Twig Rush Freshwater Wetland). It adjoins the wet shrubland community CH_FW02(Coastal Wallum Paperbark Banksia Grass Tree Wet Heathland).EquivalentsBiometric:(NR276) Wallum sedgeland and rushland of near coastal lowlands of the North CoastOther: Community No. 1: Baumea rubiginosa sedgeland (Griffith et al. 2003)LocationsAirport Drive; Garby Nature Reserve; Yuraygir National Park.Page 308Vegetation Mapping of the Coffs Harbour Local Government Area