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

CH_FW06Floristic summaryLayer Height Cover Dominant SpeciesEmergent 8 – 22 20 – 25 Eucalyptus robusta, Eucalyptus signata.Middle 2 - 8 45 - 55 Leptospermum polygalifolium, Leptospermum whitei.Lower 1 1 - 5 30 - 60 Nematolepis squamea subsp. squamea, Elaeocarpus reticulatus, Gahnia clarkei,Leucopogon lanceolatus, Leucopogon margarodes, Gahnia sieberiana.Lower 2 0 - 1 10 - 30 Baloskion tetraphyllum subsp. meiostachyum, Xanthorrhoea fulva, Caustis recurvata.* Data collated from 3 of 3 full floristic sitesStructural and floristic variationsThis community varies from a tall open forest to shrubland and grades into a more open heathland as moistureincreases. It also grades into CH_FrW06 – Coastal Wallum Swamp Mahogany – Paperbark - Satinwood Forest withdecreasing soil moisture.Species richnessNumber of plots 3Total species 37Average number of species 20 ±0.6Conservation statusThis community is reserved in Bongil Bongil National Park (4ha).TenureArea (ha)Crown Land 14Freehold 22National Park 4Total 39Relationship to other communitiesThis community is related to other wallum forested wetlands and shrubland communities, including CH_FrW06(Coastal Wallum Swamp Mahogany - Paperbark - Satinwood Forest) and CH_FW01 (Coastal Wallum Teatree -Banksia Wet Heathland Shrubland)EquivalentsBiometric:(NR278) Wet heathland and shrubland of coastal lowlands of the North CoastOther:SG6003 - Leptospermum juniperinum mid-high to tall heathland and closedheathland and 6004 - (Xanthorrhoea fulva mid-high closed heathland (Griffith and Wilson, 2007) Community 9-Tantoon Tea-tree Shrublands (Cameron et al. 2011)LocationsEastern Peninsula Trail, Bongil Bongil National Park; Boambee Creek, Newport’s Creek; Airport Drive – CoffsHarbour; Christmas Bells Road; Hogbin Drive, Coffs Harbour.Vegetation Mapping of the Coffs Harbour Local Government Area Page 317