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Native Vegetation of North-West Wollemi National Park and Surrounds The Native Vegetation of North-west Wollemi National Park and Surrounds Including Nullo Mountain, Coricudgy and Cudgegong Areas Volume 2: Vegetation Community Profiles PO Box A290 Sydney South, NSW 1232 www.environment.nsw.gov.au Office of Environment & Heritage NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service THE NATIVE VEGETATION OF NORTH-WEST WOLLEMI NATIONAL PARK AND SURROUNDS INCLUDING NULLO MOUNTAIN, CORICUDGY AND CUDGEGONG AREAS VOLUME 2: VEGETATION COMMUNITY PROFILES Version 1 April 2012 Published by: For enquiries regarding this report please contact the Office of Environment and Heritage, Department of Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Section, Premier and Cabinet Metropolitan Branch, Office of Environment and 59-61 Goulburn Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Heritage, Hurstville. PO Box A290, Sydney South, NSW 1232 Phone: (02) 9585 6676 Report pollution and environmental incidents Environment Line: 131 555 (NSW only) or This report should be referenced as follows: [email protected] OEH (2012) The Native Vegetation of North-west See also www.environment.nsw.gov.au/pollution Wollemi National Park and Surrounds. Volume 2: Phone: (02) 9995 5000 (switchboard) Vegetation Community Profiles. Version 1. Office of Phone: 131 555 (environment information and Environment and Heritage, Department of Premier publications requests) and Cabinet, Sydney. Phone: 1300 361 967 (national parks, climate change and energy efficiency information and Acknowledgements publications requests) Thankyou to landholders who provided access Fax: (02) 9995 5999 during the field surveys. This includes Gay and Terry TTY: (02) 9211 4723 Summers, Bruce Kerney, Jayne Watson and Jodie Email: [email protected] Nancarrow, Paul Frost and Craig Shaw, Jim and Sue Website: www.environment.nsw.gov.au Gunn, Julio and Lorraine, Tony Stamford, Anthony Thompson, David and Heather Alley, Gerry Harvey, ISBN 978 1 74359 066 9 Russell and Lynne Cooper, Ross Wicks, Craig and OEH Publishing No. 2013/0267 Theresa Martin, Mike Suttor, Reg and Jenny Franks, April 2012 Martin de Rooy, State Forests NSW (particularly Warwick Bratby). © Copyright Office of Environment and Heritage, Thankyou to Colin Bower for providing data. Department of Premier and Cabinet on behalf of Thankyou to everyone who kindly contributed photos State of NSW. Photographs are copyright Office of for the report. Environment and Heritage or the individual photographer. Cover Photos Front cover Feature Photo © C.H. Barker/OEH With the exception of photographs, the Office of Lichen © C. O’Brien/OEH Environment and Heritage, Department of Premier Lace Monitor (Varanus varius) © C. O’Brien/OEH and Cabinet and State of NSW are pleased to allow Eriostemon australasius © R. Woodward/OEH this material to be reproduced in whole or in part for Bare Rock Bluff © D. Connolly/OEH educational and non-commercial use, provided the Grevillea johnsonii © R. Woodward/OEH meaning is unchanged and its source, publisher and authorship are acknowledged. Specific permission is Back cover required for the reproduction of photographs. Goodenia ovata © R. Woodward/OEH Widden valley © R. Woodward/OEH Office of Environment and Heritage, Department of Cedar Creek © N. Williams/OEH Premier and Cabinet has compiled The Native Vegetation of North-west Wollemi National Park and Bare Rock Bluff © D. Connolly/OEH Surrounds. Volume 2: Vegetation Community Profiles. Version 1 in good faith, exercising all due care and attention. Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) does not accept responsibility for any inaccurate or incomplete information supplied by third parties. No representation is made about the accuracy, completeness or suitability of the information in this publication for any particular purpose. OEH shall not be liable for any damage which may occur to any person or organisation taking action or not on the basis of this publication. Readers should seek appropriate advice when applying the information to their specific needs. Map data is not guaranteed to be free from error or omission. OEH and its employees disclaim liability for any act done on the information in the map and any consequences of such acts or omissions. TABLE OF CONTENTS THREATENED ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES ............................................................................................III OVERVIEW OF VEGETATION COMMUNITY PROFILES............................................................................... 1 USING THE VEGETATION COMMUNITY PROFILES ................................................................................... 1 Rainforests............................................................................................................................ 7 Blue Mountains Gorge Subtropical-Dry Rainforest ............... S_RF09..............................................8 Sydney Hinterland Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest..................... S_RF11............................................11 Sydney Hinterland Warm Temperate Rainforest .................. S_RF12............................................15 Hunter Range Grey Myrtle Layered Forest .......................... S_RF13............................................18 Montane Basalt Warm Temperate Rainforest ...................... S_RF14............................................21 Dry Ranges Rusty Fig Rainforest Scrub .............................. S_RF15............................................24 Wet Sclerophyll Forests..................................................................................................... 27 Sydney Hinterland Blue Gum-Turpentine Gully Forest.........S_WSF10..........................................28 Blue Mountains Ash Moist Forest.......................................S_WSF20..........................................31 Sydney Montane Basalt Monkey Gum Forest .....................S_WSF21..........................................34 Wollemi Monkey Gum-Peppermint Gully Forest..................S_WSF22..........................................38 Blue Mountains Diatreme Moist Forest...............................S_WSF23..........................................41 Central Tableland Flats Snow Gum-Ribbon Gum Forest .....S_WSF24..........................................45 Central Tableland Ribbon Gum-Apple Gully Forest .............S_WSF25..........................................48 Montane Basalt Ribbon Gum Moist Forest .........................S_WSF28..........................................53 Montane Basalt Ribbon Gum-Snow Gum Forest.................S_WSF29..........................................57 Hunter Range Basalt Paperbark Thicket.............................S_WSF30..........................................61 Montane Basalt Ribbon Gum-Box Forest ...........................S_WSF31..........................................64 Grassy Woodlands............................................................................................................. 69 Western Hunter Footslopes Box Woodland ........................ S_GW05...........................................70 Western Hunter Flats Fuzzy Box Woodland........................ S_GW06...........................................74 Montane Basalt Stringybark-Brittle Gum Forest .................. S_GW07...........................................77 Cudgegong Footslopes Yellow Box Forest ........................ S_GW09...........................................81 Hunter Range Basalt Grey Box Woodland.......................... S_GW10...........................................85 Central Tableland Clay White Box Woodland...................... S_GW11...........................................88 Dry Sclerophyll Forests ..................................................................................................... 93 Sydney Hinterland Peppermint-Apple Forest ...................... S_DSF22 ..........................................94 Hunter Range Ironbark Forest ........................................... S_DSF28 ..........................................98 Hunter Range Stringybark-Apple-Peppermint Forest........... S_DSF33 ........................................102 Western Hunter Flats Ironbark Forest ................................ S_DSF39 ........................................106 Blue Mountains Gorges Grey Gum Sheltered Forest........... S_DSF40 ........................................109 Hunter Escarpment Slaty Gum-Box Forest ......................... S_DSF41 ........................................113 Western Hunter Residual Basalt Low Forest....................... S_DSF44 ........................................117 Blue Mountains Sands Scribbly Gum Woodland ................. S_DSF45 ........................................120 Central Tableland Sand-slope Scribbly Gum Woodland....... S_DSF46 ........................................123 Cudgegong Footslopes Forest........................................... S_DSF47 ........................................127 Goulburn River Ranges Cypress-Ironbark Forest................ S_DSF48 ........................................131 Growee Ranges Grey Gum-Scribbly Gum Forest................ S_DSF49........................................134 Growee Ranges Grey Gum Sheltered Forest...................... S_DSF50 ........................................137 Growee Ranges Rocky Stringybark Woodland.................... S_DSF51 ........................................140 Hunter Range Peppermint Sheltered Forest ....................... S_DSF52 ........................................143 Western Blue Mountains Pagoda Woodland....................... S_DSF54 ........................................147
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