A Preliminary List of Vascular Plant Species for Far South-Eastern New South Wales

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Binns is a Research Forester based at the Wauchope Research Centre Published by: Forestry Commission of New South Wales Wood Technology and Forest Research Division 27 Oratava Avenue, West Pennant Hills, 2120 P.O. Box 100, Beecroft, 2119 Australia. Copyright: Forestry Commission of New South Wales; 1988 ODC 17(944) ISSN 0729-5340 ISBN 07305 19023 INTRODUCTION data at the phytosociological level, or to relate species distribution to environmental Relative to other parts of eastern New factors. The available data are unsuitable South Wales, the far south-east has been and insufficient for a comprehensive poorly explored botanically and little treatment of that type. floristic information has been available. Only two floristic lists have been cited for this area (Pickard, 1972; Bryant and ARRANGEMENT Benson, 1981). Geographical distribution is recorded by Staff from some of the major herbaria Management Sections used by the Forestry have periodically made botanical Commission of N.S.W., and by land collections in the area. The first botanical tenures. Although Management Sections collections by Forestry Commission of do not necessarily reflect the most N.S.W. staff were made in the Bermagui appropriate ecological subdivision of the area in 1952 and botanical interest intensi area, they do tend to reflect the distribution fied following the establishment of a of contiguous blocks of forest and physical pulpwood export industry at Eden in 1969. dividing features such as areas of cleared In the mid-1970's, the Forestry pasture, main waterways and major roads. Commission of N.S.W. initiated intensive They provide a convenient subdivision of isological studies in Yambulla State Forest the area which is particularly relevant to (Allan Brook Section; Code No. 17) and forest management. Section boundaries and subsequently expanded into more extensive major land tenures are shown in Figure 1. floristic work. Also, during this period, ecological investigations by the N.S.W. Species are arranged in four major National Parks and Wildlife Service groups: Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, commenced in the State Forest area, known Monocotyledons and Dicotyledons, in that as the "Five Forests, between Bega and order. Families are arranged alphabetically Bermagui (Quaama and Mumbulla within each group, and genera and species Sections; Code Nos. 2 and 3). are arranged alphabetically within each family. Nomenclature generally follows In recent years, land use controversy Jacobs and Pickard (1981) or Jacobs and associated with review of the pulpwood Lapinpuro (1986), except where more export agreement has attracted considerable recent taxonomic treatments are available interest in the floristics of the area and and except for the families Fabaceae, generated the most intensive effort to date. Caesalpiniaceae and Mimosaceae, which Many individuals and organisations have are retained as separate families. been involved. The N.S.W. National Parks and Wildlife Service has made a substantial Some species pairs have recently been or contribution, particularly with regard to are currently difficult to separate e.g. those lands under their controL Prostanthera decussata and P. hirtula. Records for such pairs have been combined. This report provides a broad listing Records which have not been determined to (Table 1) of geographical distribution of species level have generally been excluded, vascular plant species for an area which except for: a) those which represent includes all crown-timber lands within the apparently undescribed species, and b) Eden Native Forest Management Area some genera in which such records are (Forestry Commission of N.S.W., 1982) fairly numerous. The latter are simply and associated lands of various tenures. lumped under the genus as "spp.". This area is shown in Figure 1. The present listing replaces previous lists produced by the Forestry Commission of N.S.W. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TABLE 1 As only a relatively small proportion of Risk Code the total area has so far been explored botanically, this list is preliminary and is Code given by Briggs and Leigh (1987) best regarded as a basis for further work. to species they consider to be rare or No attempt has been made to analyze the threatened in an Australia-wide context. 1 Briefly, these are: Land Tenure: 1 = Species known only from the type f = State Forest, including management collection. reserves and informally reserved areas, but not Flora Reserves. 2 = Very restricted distribution in Australia and with a maximum r = Flora Reserve or area in the process geographic range of less than 100 of notification as such. km. v = Vacant crown land. 3 = Range more than 100 km but occurring only in small populations p = National Park, Nature Reserve or which are mainly restricted to highly State Recreation Area. specific habitats. o = Other tenures, or tenure unknown due E = Endangered. to inadequate locality details of record. V = Vulnerable. Upper case letters = record supported by at R = Rare, but not currently considered least one herbarium specimen. endangered or vulnerable. ? = i) Section uncertain, where C = Known to be represented within a immediately preceding a section national park or other proclaimed number; or reserve. ? = ii) Tenure uncertain, where Distribution Code immediately preceding a tenure code; or U = Uncommon in the study area. An arbitrary and subjective classification ? = iii) Species identification uncertain, generally applied to species recorded where following a tenure code. from 3 or fewer sites in the area, or up to 5 sites but rare at all sites. This Comments classification is likely to be conservative and is intended as an Herbaria: approximate guide only. Further work is necessary to more accurately CBG = Australian National Botanic determine. regional conservation Gardens Herbarium, Canberra. status of most species. MEL =National Herbarium of Victoria, E = Endemic to the study area. Melbourne. S = Most southerly distribution record is NSW = National Herbarium of in the study area. N.S.W., Sydney. N = Most northerly distribution record is EFC = Forestry Commission of N.S.W. in the study area. Herbarium, Eden. * = Species naturalized in the study area. All herbarium specimens recorded are held at EFC, unless otherwise indicated in Occurrence by Section and Tenure this column. Most species represented at EFC include at least one specimen which Section Code: has been identified by staff of NSW, CBG or MEL. Otherwise, specimens have been 1-18 = Code numbers given to Forestry identified by Forestry Commission of Commission of N.S.W. N.S.W. staff. Management Sections (See Figure 1). 2 Where locality information for a 2. Garven (1987). Most of the data for specimen is vague, and it has not been Ben Boyd N.P. south of Eden (Section possible to determine Section or tenure, the 16p). locality is recorded in this column. 3. Gilmour (1983). Virtually all of the data for Nadgee Nature Reserve (18p). SOURCES OF DATA 4. Margules (1985). Some records for The major source of data for State Pericoe Section (9). Forests (including Flora Reserves) and vacant crown land is a set of floristic lists 5. N.S.W. N.P.W.S. (1986). Substantial for 162 sites, based mainly on field contribution to data for Egan Peaks inventory between 1980 and 1986 by N.R. (8p), Nalbaugh N.P. (lOp), Forestry Commission of N.S.W. research Nungatta N.P. (12p) and Mt Imlay staff at Eden , but including recent N.P. (l5p). unpublished lists compiled by Floyd (1982), Albrecht (1986) and N.S.W. National Parks 6. Smith (1985). Substantial contribution and Wildlife Service (1986). to data for State Forests and National Parks in the Bega Bermagui area. Lists were compiled by Forestry Commission staff for various purposes but 7. Personal communications from other are based on two types of field inventory: individuals, notably David Albrecht, Phil Gilmour, Peter Smith and John i) "Random walk" transects, of variable Briggs. Miscellaneous but important length, within aI' latitude xl' contributions, especially for species longitude grid cell, and usually recorded infrequently in the study area. including a range of vegetation and habitat types. 8. Personal observations, not otherwise recorded. ii) Approx. 0.1 ha plots located subjectively within an homogeneous vegetation type. DATA LIMITATIONS The lists vary widely in 1. The list is not exhaustive. It does not comprehensiveness and amount of floristic include all existing information on and habitat detail recorded. plant species occurrence in the study area. It includes all relevant A list of species by sites, and a summary specimens in the Forestry Commission of locality and habitat information for the of N.S.W. Herbarium at Eden, but by sites are given in Appendix A and no means all specimens collected from Appendix B respectively. the area and held at other herbaria. Other sources of data, and the sections to 2. The information presented is strongly which they contribute, are as follows: biased towards forested crown land. Non-forest habitats and particularly, 1. Herbarium specimens at EFC, NSW,' privately owned forest lands, are in CBG and MEL. All relevant general very poorly represented. specimens at EFC have been examined.

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