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

CH_FrW08Floristic summaryLayer Height (m) Cover Dominant SpeciesShrubs 2-4 80 Leptospermum polygalifolium, Tristaniopsis laurina, Callistemon sieberi,Acacia melanoxylon.Ground covers 0 0.5 Blechnum nudum, Calochlaena dubia, Lomandra hystrix, Lomandralongifolia, Juncus usitatus.* Data collected from 1 site. Profile is developed from information collected from field investigation and API data pointsStructural and floristic variationsVaries from a low dense shrubland cover of Tantoon Tea-tree (Leptospermum polygalifolium), Blackwood (Acaciamelanoxylon) and Privet (Ligustrum sinense) along creeklines in previously cleared areas of the Eastern DorrigoPlateau to a more intact Water Gum (Tristaniopsis laurina) Bottle Brush (Callistemon sieberi) Tantoon Tea-tree (L.polygalifolium) Shrubland. There are usually warm temperate rainforest species in less disturbed sites.Species richnessNumber of plots 1Total species 9Conservation statusThis community is reserved in Bindarri State Conservation Area (7ha)TenureArea (ha)Crown Land 10Freehold 343NSW State Forest 21State Conservation Area 12TOTAL 387Relationship to other communitiesThis community is related to and may be derived from the clearing of CH_RF02 (Plateau Beech - CoachwoodCool Temperate Rainforest) and CH_RF03 (Plateau and Escarpment Coachwood - Sassafras Warm TemperateRainforest).EquivalentsBiometric:Other:1999).(NR269) Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelandsRV3 Eastern Dorrigo Riparian Vegetation (Fisher et al.1996), Forest Ecosystem 199 (NPWS,LocationsBobo River, Brooklana, Upper Bobo Road; Ulong Creek, Langley’s Road. Along Bobo River between Upper Boboand Brooklana; Little Nymboida River Ulong; Lowanna; Wild Cattle Creek State Forest; Mole Creek, Kangaroo CreekState Forest; Mole Creek; Brimbin Creek, Lowanna; Camp Creek.Page 366Vegetation Mapping of the Coffs Harbour Local Government Area