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

CH_FrW03Floristic summaryLayer Height (m) Cover (%) Dominant SpeciesTallest 8-25 35-40 Melaleuca quinquenervia, Callistemon salignus.Ground 0-1.5 5 Crinum pedunculatum, Baumea articulata, Carex appressa,Cladium procerum.* Data collated from 3 of 3 full floristic sitesStructural and floristic variationsExoticsSpecies richnessPaspalum mandiocanumNumber of plots 3Total speciesAverage number of species 13 ±0.7Conservation statusThis community is reserved in Bongil Bongil National Park (48ha), Coffs Coast Regional Park (1ha), YuraygirNational Park (4ha)TenureArea (ha)Crown Land 1Freehold 25National Park 52Regional Park 1TOTAL 80Endangered Ecological Community: Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplains of the NSW North Coast,Sydney Basin and South-east Corner bioregions EECRelationship to other communitiesRelated to CH_FrW01 (Coastal Paperbark - Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest) and CH_FrW04 (Coastal PaperbarkSedgeland dominated Forest). CH_FrW03 (Coastal Paperbark Bottlebrush Channel Forest) is distinguished bya wetter and simpler sparser ground layer usually dominated by Baumea articulata in comparison to a moredense ground cover of sedges than CH_FrW04 and CH_FrW01. Because of its unique hydrology, these areas arewaterlogged for extensive periods.EquivalentsBiometric:(NR217) Paperbark swamp forest of the coastal lowlands of the North Coast.Other:N20 - N50 Paperbark (Fisher et al. 1996); Community13 - Paperbark Willow Bottlebrush SwampSclerophyll Forest (Cameron et al. 2011).LocationsBundageree Creek; Scrub Creek; At the base of Beacon Hill; Sapphire Beach; and Station Creek in Yuraygir NationalPark.Page 344Vegetation Mapping of the Coffs Harbour Local Government Area