The Bundanon Trust Properties Are Mapped by the NSW National Vegetation Survey As Supporting Over 14 Different Vegetation Communities
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The Native Vegetation of the Nattai and Bargo Reserves
The Native Vegetation of the Nattai and Bargo Reserves Project funded under the Central Directorate Parks and Wildlife Division Biodiversity Data Priorities Program Conservation Assessment and Data Unit Conservation Programs and Planning Branch, Metropolitan Environmental Protection and Regulation Division Department of Environment and Conservation ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CADU (Central) Manager Special thanks to: Julie Ravallion Nattai NP Area staff for providing general assistance as well as their knowledge of the CADU (Central) Bioregional Data Group area, especially: Raf Pedroza and Adrian Coordinator Johnstone. Daniel Connolly Citation CADU (Central) Flora Project Officer DEC (2004) The Native Vegetation of the Nattai Nathan Kearnes and Bargo Reserves. Unpublished Report. Department of Environment and Conservation, CADU (Central) GIS, Data Management and Hurstville. Database Coordinator This report was funded by the Central Peter Ewin Directorate Parks and Wildlife Division, Biodiversity Survey Priorities Program. Logistics and Survey Planning All photographs are held by DEC. To obtain a Nathan Kearnes copy please contact the Bioregional Data Group Coordinator, DEC Hurstville Field Surveyors David Thomas Cover Photos Teresa James Nathan Kearnes Feature Photo (Daniel Connolly) Daniel Connolly White-striped Freetail-bat (Michael Todd), Rock Peter Ewin Plate-Heath Mallee (DEC) Black Crevice-skink (David O’Connor) Aerial Photo Interpretation Tall Moist Blue Gum Forest (DEC) Ian Roberts (Nattai and Bargo, this report; Rainforest (DEC) Woronora, 2003; Western Sydney, 1999) Short-beaked Echidna (D. O’Connor) Bob Wilson (Warragamba, 2003) Grey Gum (Daniel Connolly) Pintech (Pty Ltd) Red-crowned Toadlet (Dave Hunter) Data Analysis ISBN 07313 6851 7 Nathan Kearnes Daniel Connolly Report Writing and Map Production Nathan Kearnes Daniel Connolly EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report describes the distribution and composition of the native vegetation within and immediately surrounding Nattai National Park, Nattai State Conservation Area and Bargo State Conservation Area. -
FNCV Register of Photos
FNCV Register of photos - natural history (FNCVSlideReg is in Library computer: My computer - Local Disc C - Documents and settings - Library) [Square brackets] - added or updated name Slide number Title Place Date Source Plants SN001-1 Banksia marginata Grampians 1974 001-2 Xanthorrhoea australis Labertouche 17 Nov 1974 001-3 Xanthorrhoea australis Anglesea Oct 1983 001-4 Regeneration after bushfire Anglesea Oct 1983 001-5 Grevillea alpina Bendigo 1975 001-6 Glossodia major / Grevillea alpina Maryborough 19 Oct 1974 001-7 Discarded - out of focus 001-8 [Asteraceae] Anglesea Oct 1983 001-9 Bulbine bulbosa Don Lyndon 001-10 Senecio elegans Don Lyndon 001-11 Scaevola ramosissima (Hairy fan-flower) Don Lyndon 001-12 Brunonia australis (Blue pincushion) Don Lyndon 001-13 Correa alba Don Lyndon 001-14 Correa alba Don Lyndon 001-15 Calocephalus brownii (Cushion bush) Don Lyndon 001-16 Rhagodia baccata [candolleana] (Seaberry saltbush) Don Lyndon 001-17 Lythrum salicaria (Purple loosestrife) Don Lyndon 001-18 Carpobrotus sp. (Pigface in the sun) Don Lyndon 001-19 Rhagodia baccata [candolleana] Inverloch Don Lyndon 001-20 Epacris impressa Don Lyndon 001-21 Leucopogon virgatus (Beard-heath) Don Lyndon 001-22 Stackhousia monogyna (Candles) Don Lyndon 001-23 Correa reflexa (yellow) Don Lyndon 001-24 Prostanthera sp. Don Lyndon Fungi 002-1 Stinkhorn fungus Aseroe rubra Buckety Plains 30/12/1974 Margarey Lester 002-2 Fungi collection: Botany Group excursion Dom Dom Saddle 28 May 1988 002-3 Aleuria aurantia Aug 1966 R&M Jennings Bairnsdale FNC 002-4 -
Disentangling an Entangled Bank: Using Network Theory to Understand Interactions in Plant Communities
Disentangling an entangled bank: using network theory to understand interactions in plant communities Photo by Ray Blick Ray A.J. Blick Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Evolution and Ecology Research Centre School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales July 2012 PLEASE TYPE THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Thesis/Dissertation Sheet Surname or Family name: Blick First name: Raymond Other name/s: Arthur John Abbreviation for degree as given in the University calendar: School: School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences Evolution and Ecology Research Centre Faculty: Science Title: Disentangling an entangled bank: using network theory to understand interactions in plant communities Abstract 350 words maximum: (PLEASE TYPE) Network analysis can map interactions between entities to reveal complex associations between objects, people or even financial decisions. Recently network theory has been applied to ecological networks, including interactions between plants that live in the canopy of other trees (e.g. mistletoes or vines). In this thesis, I explore plant-plant interactions in greater detail and I test for the first time, a predictive approach that maps unique biological traits across species interactions. In chapter two I used a novel predictive approach to investigate the topology of a mistletoe-host network and evaluate leaf trait similari ties between Lauranthaceaous mistletoes and host trees. Results showed support for negative co-occurrence patterns, web specialisation and strong links between species pairs. However, the deterministic model showed that the observed network topology could not predict network interactions when they were considered to be unique associations in the community. -
Wednesday Walk on a Mayfield Road Property – 28 September 2011
Wednesday Walk on a Mayfield Road Property – 28 September 2011 Mayfield Road runs off Cullulla Road not far from Tarago, NSW. We visited the property on a cold day in June then returned to see some spring flowers. The property is heavily wooded in parts but also has some grassland and a creek. We saw a great display of many Pomaderris elliptica in full flower, also the Pultenaea villifera was quite spectacular - a hillside of it. We also saw lots of Stypandra glauca, Rhytidosporum procumbens, Lissanthe strigosa and Leucopogon fraseri flowering and evidence of many Patersonia sericea and P. longifolia flowers and some spectacular Acacia decurrens just finishing. A highlight for the owner was the recording of 6 orchid species. We found many Petalochilus fuscatus flowering, a few P. carneus (just starting), some good patches of Pterostylis pedunculata, one Diuris pardina, some Microtis sp. leaves and some rosettes which we marked for checking when flowering. Pultenaea villifera Image by Roger Farrow Carpet of lichen Image by Roger Farrow Pomaderris elliptica Image by Roger Farrow Lissanthe strigosa Image by Roger Farrow Diuris pardina Image by Roger Farrow Petalochilus fuscatus Image by Roger Farrow Rhytidosporum procumbens Image by Roger Farrow Leucopogon fraseri Image by Roger Pterostylis pedunculata Image by Roger Farrow Farrow Prepared by the Wednesday Walkers of the Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Plant List for Mayfield Road Property - 22 June 2011 & 28 September 2011 ? indicates that those present were unsure of the plant name Acacia ? deanei ssp. paucijuga Gonocarpus tetragynus Acacia decurrens Goodenia hederacea Acacia falciformis Haloragis heterophylla Acacia mearnsii Helichrysum leucopsideum Acacia terminalis Hibbertia calycina Amyema pendula Hibbertia obtusifolia Aristida ramosa Hydrocotyle laxiflora Asplenium flabellifolium Hydrocotyle tripartita Astroloma humifusum Hypericum gramineum Austrodanthonia sp. -
Lomatia Fraseri
Plants of South Eastern New South Wales Flowers and leaves. Photographer Richard Hartland, Mt Stirling Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Monga State Forest east of Braidwood Open seed cases with seeds. Australian Plant Image Line drawing. u. flowering branch. G Thomlinson, Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT. Gardens Board, Melbourne Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Geoff Butler, New England N P Common name Silky Lomatia, Tree Lomatia, Forest Lomatia Family Proteaceae Where found Forest. Ranges, mainly south of the Kings Highway. Notes Shrub or tree to about 10 m high. Bark rough, with longitudinal fissures and horizontal lenticels, grey to dark brown. Buds and young stems rusty-hairy with appressed T-shaped hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), older stems eventually becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 6–13 cm long, 10–35 mm wide, margins deeply or shallowly toothed, occasionally entire, or sometimes deeply dissected; upper surface dull green and hairless, lower surface pale yellow-green and dull or silky with appressed fine hairs, sometimes rusty hairy, tips blunt to pointed. Flowers white to cream, densely hairy, tubular, the tube slit by the style in bud, with 4 'petals' 7–9 mm long, splitting to the base when the flower is fully open. Flowers paired, in clusters 8–12 cm long. Flowers summer. Seeds with one wing. Intergrades with Lomatia myricoides or with Lomatia ilicifolia when they grow together. PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl? page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lomatia~fraseri (accessed 24 January, 2021) Author: Betty Wood. -
Action Statement
Action Statement Flora and F auna Guarantee Act 1988 No. 211 Colquhoun Grevillea Grevillea celata This Action Statement is based on a draft Recovery Plan prepared for this species by DSE under contract to the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Description Colquhoun Grevillea (Grevillea celata ) is an erect and open, to low and dense, root-suckering shrub, 0.4–1.8 m tall (Molyneux 1995). The leaves are elliptic, alternate, hairy and grey-green, to 44 x 18 mm. The lower leaf surface is almost white and densely hairy; the leaf margins are curved under, sometimes almost obscuring the lower surface (DSE 2005a). Flowers appear from July to February, and are red and yellow with curved tubes about 12 mm long. The flowers are hairy outside but densely hairy inside, and split into four lobes to release a red, hairy style to 25 mm long (Molyneux 1995; DSE 2005a). The fruit is a leathery, hairy capsule, longitudinally ridged, which splits to release winged seeds (Walsh & Distribution in Victoria Entwisle 1996). (Flora Information System DSE 2007) Colquhoun Grevillea is very similar to Golden Grevillea ( Grevillea chrysophaea ), which does not root-sucker and lacks red coloration on the perianth (Walsh & Entwisle 1996). Another similar species is Cat’s Claw Grevillea ( Grevillea alpina ). individuals exist. These plants occur in nine Cat’s Claw Grevillea, however, generally does not populations. The extent of range and abundance of root-sucker, and has a more prominent tongue-like Colquhoun Grevillea prior to European settlement nectary and usually a shorter pistil (10 - 20.5 mm is unknown. -
Ecology of Pyrmont Peninsula 1788 - 2008
Transformations: Ecology of Pyrmont peninsula 1788 - 2008 John Broadbent Transformations: Ecology of Pyrmont peninsula 1788 - 2008 John Broadbent Sydney, 2010. Ecology of Pyrmont peninsula iii Executive summary City Council’s ‘Sustainable Sydney 2030’ initiative ‘is a vision for the sustainable development of the City for the next 20 years and beyond’. It has a largely anthropocentric basis, that is ‘viewing and interpreting everything in terms of human experience and values’(Macquarie Dictionary, 2005). The perspective taken here is that Council’s initiative, vital though it is, should be underpinned by an ecocentric ethic to succeed. This latter was defined by Aldo Leopold in 1949, 60 years ago, as ‘a philosophy that recognizes[sic] that the ecosphere, rather than any individual organism[notably humans] is the source and support of all life and as such advises a holistic and eco-centric approach to government, industry, and individual’(http://dictionary.babylon.com). Some relevant considerations are set out in Part 1: General Introduction. In this report, Pyrmont peninsula - that is the communities of Pyrmont and Ultimo – is considered as a microcosm of the City of Sydney, indeed of urban areas globally. An extensive series of early views of the peninsula are presented to help the reader better visualise this place as it was early in European settlement (Part 2: Early views of Pyrmont peninsula). The physical geography of Pyrmont peninsula has been transformed since European settlement, and Part 3: Physical geography of Pyrmont peninsula describes the geology, soils, topography, shoreline and drainage as they would most likely have appeared to the first Europeans to set foot there. -
N E W S L E T T E R M a Y 2016
President Tim Hayes 4822 4949 Secretary - Bob Galland: ACN 002 680 408 0407 248 154 N E W S L E T T E R M A Y 2016 MARCH PROPAGATION A clearing well provided with logs formed a picnic area to enjoy lunch. The This again was a well-attended session with enough people to furthest point of the walk was a rocky outcrop which involved a degree of cover all the tasks required by Jen. Potting up of several wattles off-trail venturing. took place and cuttings propagation was done for some species that are expected to be used in the Woodward’s Creek project Thanks to Pauline for her impressions (above) of the walk. There were when approved. These species included a few epacrids - not a lot of flowers to be seen and those that were noticed seemed in Brachyloma daphnoides, Lissanthe strigosa. Melichrus many instances to be sporadic or just a response to the vagaries of the urceolatus still needs to be done. Frank brought in cuttings of season. Nonetheless, it was very enjoyable and importantly provides a Melaleuca pulchella which he had growing in Canberra - so it will springboard for further forays into that section of the national park. Easy be a very worthwhile addition to our plant sale lists (pulchella = access to that part of the Morton is just not available and we are grateful beautiful). to the owners of the access property, Terry and Leonie for the privilege. Leonie accompanied us on the walk and we had another visitor as well: Jen has planned a few more propagation working days with one Xavier - who had done a lot of horticulture in Queensland and a potential scheduled for May 19. -
Report on the Grimwade Plant Collection of Percival St John and Botanical Exploration of Mt Buffalo National Park (Victoria, Australia)
Report on the Grimwade Plant Collection of Percival St John and Botanical Exploration of Mt Buffalo National Park (Victoria, Australia) Alison Kellow Michael Bayly Pauline Ladiges School of Botany, The University of Melbourne July, 2007 THE GRIMWADE PLANT COLLECTION, MT BUFFALO Contents Summary ...........................................................................................................................3 Mt Buffalo and its flora.....................................................................................................4 History of botanical exploration........................................................................................5 The Grimwade plant collection of Percival St John..........................................................8 A new collection of plants from Mt Buffalo - The Miegunyah Plant Collection (2006/2007) ....................................................................................................................................13 Plant species list for Mt Buffalo National Park...............................................................18 Conclusion.......................................................................................................................19 Acknowledgments...........................................................................................................19 References .......................................................................................................................20 Appendix 1 Details of specimens in the Grimwade Plant Collection.............................22 -
Correa Mail Newsletter No 336 – April 2018
Correa Mail Newsletter No 336 – April 2018 peat moss makes a great medium. Use a dust mask March Meeting - Propagating when handling perlite and wet it to control dust. The pH should be around 5.5 – 6. Our speaker for March was Tony Hughes, a well- Tony prefers ‘squat pots’ placed on a shallow tray known propagator and lecturer in horticulture. Tony did with geo-cloth to provide water through capillary his apprenticeship with John Mahoney and taught at action. It is important to provide water without wetting The Gordon for 16 years. He spent a few years in the foliage. He suggests watering before midday in Mildura, but is back at the Gordon now, teaching winter is essential or the humidity levels over night will propagation and plant identification, and does one day be too great and fungal issues will result. Don’t feed the a week at Federation University in Ballarat. He has done cuttings. Feeding encourages leaf growth before the ‘more than 1,000,000’ cuttings in his life and is new plant has a sufficient root structure to support it. passionate about natives. Once the cuttings have established roots they need to Tony says that striking cuttings is the easy part – be potted on. A very gentle tug will show if roots are caring for them until they are ready for planting is the established. Remove the cuttings from the medium hard part. He works in a large hothouse on the East carefully as the roots are very fragile. Tony likes to lay Geelong campus (formerly East Tech) where a grant has the pot sideways and tip the contents gently along the been made to upgrade to computerised heat and table. -
Blue Moutains National Park
S ummary of Sites on the Blue Mountains National Park November 2015 Side slopes of Mount Banks, Blue Mountains National Park Acknowledgments TERN’s work would not be possible without significant help from a range of people. TERN Ausplots gratefully acknowledges Hannah McPherson and Maurizio Rossetto for all of their help and support of the project. Thanks, are also due to the staff from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service for allowing access to the park. Thanks, are also to volunteers Peter Milnes, Sue Mines, Tanya Mellor and Michael Doherty who helped with the field work and the many others who have assisted with the curation and processing of the data and samples Thanks to the staff at the National Herbarium of New South Wales, in particular Andrew Orme and Barbara Wiecek, for undertaking the plant identification. Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................ 1 Accessing the Data ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 Point intercept data ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Plant collections ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Leaf tissue samples ........................................................................................................................................... -
Indigenous Plants of Greater Taree
Indigenous Plants of Greater Taree Copyright & Acknowledgements Images are all copyright of Andrew Paget (1981-) and are provided for use in this booklet on the basis that this publication is not for commercial sale. Thanks to all the community groups and individuals who commented on drafts of this booklet, and to the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority who funded the production of this booklet through the Australian Natural Heritage Trust. Third edition published in 2010 by Greater Taree City Council‟s Strategic Planning Department. NOTE: This booklet includes only a small range of the 1800 plants known to be indigenous to the Greater Taree Local Government Area. It provides information and photos on 127 species, which are more commonly used in horticulture, attractive for cultivation and widespread across the region. The summary table in the rear of the booklet provides further information on these species and an additional 198 species, including species suitable for bushland revegetation and others less common to the region. Page 1 Indigenous Plants of Greater Taree Contents Introduction ..................................................................... p3 What are Indigenous Plants? ........................................... P4 Why use Indigenous Plants? ........................................... p4 Genetic Purity Issues ....................................................... p5 Which plants are Suitable for Cultivation? ...................... p6 Where do you obtain Indigenous Plants? ........................