General Native Vegetation Profile:
Munderoo
Note – there appears to be little difference between the vegetation on granite & quartzite soils. |
Creeklines and depressions | Rolling hills |
LANDFORM | Creeklines and depressions | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Mountain Swamp Gum forest | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Granite, gneissic granite and gneiss. Sandy alluvial soils. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Munderoo Creek | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
Eucalyptus bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
E. camphora | Mountain Swamp Gum | |
E. pauciflora | White Sallee/Snow Gum | |
E. stellulata | Black Sallee | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Baeckea utilis | Mountain Baeckea |
+ Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
L. obovatum | River Tea-tree | |
L. polygalifolium | Lemon-scented Tea-tree | |
Lomatia myricoides | River Lomatia | |
Polyscias sambucifolius | Elderberry Panax | |
+ soaks/poorly drained sites |
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GROUND COVERS | Carex spp. | Sedge |
Juncus spp. | Rush | |
Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa labillardieri | Tussock Grass | |
Typha spp. | Cumbungi |
LANDFORM | Rolling hills | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Moist open forest: Robertson’s Peppermint & Apple Box; Broad-leaved Peppermint & Brittle Gum |
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GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Sandy yellow earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Most of district | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
Banksia marginata | Silver Banksia | |
– Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
E. bicostata | Eurabbie | |
E. camphora | Mountain Swamp Gum | |
E. dives | Broad-leaved Peppermint | |
* E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
# E. mannifera | Brittle Gum | |
E. pauciflora | White Sallee/Snow Gum | |
E. robertsonii | Robertson’s Peppermint | |
E. rubida | Candlebark | |
E. stellulata | Black Sallee | |
– south of district, near Ikes Mountain * mainly north aspect # particularly on shaley soils |
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SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Baeckea utilis | Mountain Baeckea |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla | Hairy Bursaria | |
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata | Common Cassinia | |
C. longifolia | Shiny Cassinia | |
Daviesia latifolia | Hop Bitter-pea | |
Epacris breviflora | Drumstick Heath | |
Hakea microcarpa | Small-fruited Hakea | |
+ Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
L. obovatum | River Tea-tree | |
L. polygalifolium | Lemon-scented Tea-tree | |
Mirbelia oxylobioides | Mountain Mirbelia | |
Platylobium formosum | Handsome Flat-pea | |
+ soaks/poorly drained sites |
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GROUND COVERS | Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass |
Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath | |
Clematis aristata | Old Man’s Beard | |
Geranium spp. | Cranesbill | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea/Sarsaparilla | |
Lomandra filiformis | Wattle Mat-rush | |
L. longifolia | Spiny-headed Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
Poa spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Rubus parvifolius | Native Raspberry | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass |