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

CH_FW07Floristic summaryLayer Height (m) Cover (%) Dominant SpeciesEmergent 2 - 5 10 Melaleuca quinquenervia.Lower 1 1 - 3 40 - 65 Baumea articulata, Baumea rubiginosa, Schoenus melanostachys,Blechnum indicum.Lower 2 0 – 0.5 15 Carex gaudichaudiana, Enydra fluctuans.* Data collated from 2 of 2 full floristic sitesExoticsBaccharis halimifolia, Cinnamomum camphora, Ochna serrulata, Schefflera actinophylla,Paspalum mandiocanumSpecies richnessNumber of plots 2Total species 24Average number of species 15 ±10Conservation statusCoffs Coast Regional Park (1ha), Moonee Beach Nature Reserve (4ha), Yuraygir National Park (16ha)TenureArea (ha)Freehold 5National Park 17Nature Reserve 4Regional Park 1TOTAL 27Endangered Ecological Community: Freshwater Wetlands on Coastal Floodplains of the NSW North Coast,Sydney Basin and South East Corner bioregions EECRelationship to other communitiesRelated to CH_FrW04 (Coastal Paperbark Sedgeland Dominated Forest). CH_FW07 is distinguished by havinga simple floristic composition dominated by Jointed Twig Rush (Baumea articulata) with Eleocharis acuta,whereas CH_FrW04 has a canopy of Broadleaved Paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia) and/or Sieber’s Paperbark(Melaleuca sieberi) with a more complex ground layer.EquivalentsBiometric:Other:(NR150) Coastal freshwater meadows and forblands of lagoons and wetlandsnilLocationsNorth of Red Rock in Yuraygir National Park, Behind Dunes of Fidderman’s Beach in Moonee Beach Nature ReserveVegetation Mapping of the Coffs Harbour Local Government Area Page 321