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32 semi-evergreen rainforest on coastal dunes legend

dry deciduous evergreen microphyll low closed forest or thicket on coastal sand masses +/- Eucalypt or Melaleuca emergents +/- vines and seasonally dry to moderately dry

WT E 7.2.2 Notophyll vine forest with acacia emergents of moist to wet coastal lowlands on beach sands

7.2.2 E dunes and beaches 1 32

LANDFORM dunes / swales; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Beach scrub with Pleiogynium timorense, Acacia polystachya, Drypetes deplanchei, Polyalthia nitidissima, Mimusops elengi, Ganophyllum falcatum and many others; NOTES Suggest separate RE to more northern types with Eucalyptus pellita and E. intermedia. Possibly separate RE to any types containing Eucalyptus spp, Melaleuca spp or other sclerophyllous spp; GEOLOGY SOIL light sand

 BBN C 11.2.3 Microphyll vine forest ("beach scrub") on sandy beach ridges

11.2.3 dunes and beaches 1 32

LANDFORM dune / swale; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Beach scrub with Pleiogynium timorense, Drypetes deplanchei, Polyalthia nitidissima, Mimusops elengi, Ganophyllum falcatum and many others; GEOLOGY SOIL pale sand

34 semi-evergreen rainforest legend

dry deciduous evergreen notophyll / microphyll and microphyll usually mid-high closed forests +/- vines +/-Eucalypt or Hoop Pine emergents and seasonally dry to moderately dry

WT C 7.3.23 Notophyll to mesophyll riparian vine forest on dry well drained lowland alluvial levees

7.3.23x C plains 1 34

LANDFORM rocky creeks; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Closed forest with Tristaniopsis exiliflora +/- Buckinghamia celcissima +/- Melaleuca viminalis +/- Archontophoenix alexandrae +/- vine forest spp. Ground stratum with Lomandra hystrix; NOTES Riparian, but probably sits better in landzone 12 (Occurs on rocky creeks with little or no riverine deposits); GEOLOGY SOIL PR, SGV

WT C 7.12.10 Notophyll vine forest with emergent hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) on moist granite foothills and uplands

7.12.10 C Granite and acid volcanic ranges 1 34

LANDFORM variable - flat to very steep slopes; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Microphyll vine forest +/- Araucaria cunninghamii; GEOLOGY SOIL CPG, SCG, SGF, SPGa

BBN C 11.12.12 Araucaria cunninghamii woodland on igneous rocks (boulder-strewn coastal hills)

11.12.12 Granite and acid volcanic ranges 1 34

LANDFORM hilly / rocky slopes; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Forest with Araucaria cunninghamii with open to closed understorey, +/- vine thickets spp +/- Triodia stenostachya; GEOLOGY SOIL MIG

31 lowland/lower slopes wetter vine forest; +/- Black Bean legend

lowland (warm) complex notophyll vine forest and notophyll vine forest +/- Black Bean

WT C 7.3.23 Notophyll to mesophyll riparian vine forest on dry well drained lowland alluvial levees

7.3.23 C plains 1 31

LANDFORM creeks, levees; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Notophyll vine forest; GEOLOGY SOIL sandy loam

BBN 11.3.25 Eucalyptus tereticornis or E. camaldulensis, Casuarina cunninghamiana fringing woodland on alluvial plains

11.3.25x2 ~ C plains 1 31

LANDFORM riverine, creeks; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Closed forest with Melaleuca leucadendra, Castanospermum australe, Terminalia sericocarpa, Nauclea orientalis +/- Livistona decipiens +/- Ficus racemosa; GEOLOGY SOIL sandy loam

BBN 11.12.4 Semi-evergreen vine thicket and microphyll vine forest on igneous rocks

11.12.4x2 Granite and acid volcanic ranges 1 31

LANDFORM lower rocky slopes / scree slopes; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Notophyll vine forest with Castanospermum australe, Melicope melanophloia, Actephila sessilifolia and various others; NOTES (or WT outlier 7.12.36x); GEOLOGY SOIL JV

35 evergreen rainforest legend

simple notophyl tall closed vine forest of the permanently damp highlands uplands and alluvial riparian lowlands +/- patchy closely related evergreen rainforest types +/- vines

WT 7.12.9 Notophyll/mesophyll vine forest dominated by brown salwood (Acacia celsa) on very wet to wet granite foothills and uplands

7.12.9 Granite and acid volcanic ranges 1 35

LANDFORM steep slopes; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Notophyll vine forest with Acacia aff aulacocarpa (A.celsa ms) +/- A. melanoxylon; GEOLOGY SOIL SGV

WT 7.12.14 Notophyll vine forest with rose gum (Eucalyptus grandis) emergents on cloudy wet granite and rhyolite upland ridges

7.12.14b Granite and acid volcanic ranges 1 35

LANDFORM very steep slopes; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Tall forest with Eucalyptus grandis as emergents in notophyll vine forest; GEOLOGY SOIL PR

WT 7.12.16 Simple notophyll vine forest on cloudy wet granite and rhyolite uplands and highlands

7.12.16a Granite and acid volcanic ranges 1 35

LANDFORM und / gently hilly; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Notophyll vine forest; NOTES separated from 327; GEOLOGY SOIL SGV

7.12.16b Granite and acid volcanic ranges 1 35

LANDFORM hilly; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Notophyll vine forest. (Fine-textured forest on hilltops looks very different from typical rainforest); NOTES Rainforest valleys and slopes with very fine-textured hilltops; GEOLOGY SOIL PR, CM

BBN 11.12.4 Semi-evergreen vine thicket and microphyll vine forest on igneous rocks

11.12.4x1 Granite and acid volcanic ranges 1 35

LANDFORM hilly tops; VEG STRUCTURE & FLORISTICS Notophyll vine forest; NOTES (or Wt oulier 7.12.13) Some difference in dominant spp compared to 7.12.13, especially lack of dominance of Acacia melanoxylon, but is still a reasonable fit (see complete species list for 8259-94Y - 17/9/98); GEOLOGY SOIL MStG

 

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