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

CH_FrW01Floristic summaryLayer Height (m) Cover (%) Dominant SpeciesTallest 2.5-30 25-80 Melaleuca quinquenervia, Callistemon salignus, Casuarina glauca.Mid 1-12 5-50 Callistemon salignus, Melaleuca styphelioides, Melaleuca quinquenervia.Lower layer 0-2 20-70 Gahnia clarkei, Crinum pedunculatum.Ground 0-0.5 15-70 Ottochloa gracillima, Alexfloydia repens, Viola banksii, Leptinella longipes,Oplismenus aemulus.* Data collected from 11 of 11 full floristic sitesExoticsBaccharis halimifolia, Lantana camara, Paspalum mandiocanum, Senna pendula var. glabrata,Senna septemtrionalis, Sida rhombifolia, Solanum capsicoides, Tradescantia fluminensisSpecies richnessNumber of plots 11Total species 87Average species per plot 27 ±6Conservation statusThis community is reserve in Bongil Bongil National Park (233ha) Coffs Coast Regional Park (11ha) Garby NatureReserve (3ha) Moonee Beach Nature Reserve (23ha) Yuraygir National Park (59ha)TenureArea (ha)Crown Land 67Freehold 550National Park 292Nature Reserve 25Regional Park 10TOTAL 944Endangered Ecological Community: Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplains of the NSW North Coast,Sydney Basin and South East Corner bioregions EEC.Threatened and Rare PlantsAlexfloydia repensRelationship to other communitiesRelated to CH_FrW03 (Coastal Paperbark - Bottlebrush Channel Forest) and CH_FrW04 (Coastal PaperbarkSedgeland Dominated Forest). CH_FrW01 is readily distinguished from these communities by the increasedoccurrence of grass and herb understorey species. CH_FrW03 and CH_FrW04 are characteristically sparse atunderstorey and ground level due to the frequency of water-logging).EquivalentsBiometric: (NR217) Paperbark swamp forest of the coastal lowlands of the North Coast.Other:N20- N50- Paperbark (Fisher et al. 1996); Community 12- Paperbark Willow Bottlebrush SwampSclerophyll Forest (Cameron et al. 2011); Forest Ecosystem 112 - Paperbark (NPWS 1999).Vegetation Mapping of the Coffs Harbour Local Government Area Page 333