The Flora and Avifauna of the proposed Carnarvon Range Conservation Park, Western Australia, including the nearby Blue Hill Pastoral Lease. Part 2: Vegetation

16 Pages·2003·2.8 MB·English

by  Daphne Choules Edinger

THE FLORA AND AVIFAUNA OF THE PROPOSED
CARNARVON RANGE CONSERVATION PARK,
WESTERN AUSTRALIA, INCLUDING THE
NEARBY BLUE HILL PASTORAL LEASE
PART 2 -VEGETATION
By DAPHNE CHOULES EDINGER
7 Elvira Street, Palmyra, WA. 6157
SUMMARY
1. Miss Fairbairn Hills, low
A comprehensive list of the 400 + rounded hills of banded
vascular plants collected and ironstone in the southwest.
recorded from the Carnarvon 2. Granitoid breakaway areas in
Range in August 1998, 1999, 2000 the north of laterite.
and 2001 is presented - plus 84
3. The Carnarvon Ranges of
sight records of easily recognised
Wonyulgunna Sandstone to
common but uncollected plants.
900+ metres.
An analysis of the floristic
4. Lake Kerrylyn, salt and mostly
composition of the vegetation of
dry in the north-east and
this range is given. Brief notes on
surrounds.
the physical features, land use and
climate of the range area are also 5. Red sandplain and sandridges
provided. to 9m running northeast and
southwest.
The Carnarvon Range is at the
southern limit of several plant
species with a more northerly
distribution. VEGETATION OF CARNARVON
RANGE
McKenzie and Burbidge (1979)
METHODS
have described the vegetation of
Because of the large area of the the proposed park thus:
park and there being only one A. Vegetation of the range is tall
rough track through it, our open-shrubland of Acacia
collecting was necessarily aneura with Grevillea spinosa
opportunistic as we travelled and and Hakea rhombales. Below the
more concentrated at camp sites, shrubs are scattered areas of
mainly at rockholes. For location hummock grassland (Triodia
details and place names see Coate basedoivii). There are scattered,
and Edinger (Part 1 this emergent Eucalyptus
publication). camaldulensis and Callitris
The park comprises five main glaucophylla. Many areas of bare
areas:- rock are present.
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B. In the gullies which contain He identified it as containing
pools and ephemeral streams, Spirogyra neglecta, a desmid
coolibah (Eucalyptus victrix), to (Pleurotaenium sp.) and two species
15m form fringing formations, of Oedogonium. One of these,
although Callitris glaucophylla is Oedogonium silvaticum proved to
also common and Ficus be a new species record for
platypoda is present, especially Australia and the other is an
on steep areas. undescribed species.
C. Against the base of the
southern side of the range are
screes and gibbers with a tall DISCUSSION
shrubland to low woodland of
A total of 400 species from 60
mulga (Acacia ancura) and
families (Appendix 1) were
gidgee (Acacia pruinocarpa) or
recorded for the area of which 4
sometimes low open
were new species, 15 were priority
woodlands of Corymbia
species, one a range extension of
deserticola over low shrubs and
300km approximately (Acacia
grasses.
hamersleyensis) and one a first
To the south of the range are collection for the area (Acacia
extensive red sandplains with
marramamba).
occasional low dunes.
As stated before, the Carnarvon
D. A low open woodland of
Range is at the southern limit of
corkwood (Hakea lorea) and
several plant species with a more
scattered Acacia species over a
northerly distribution, e.g.
hummock grassland of Triodia
Clerodendrum floribundum.
basedowii covers the plains.
A total number of genera and
E. The dunes have a low open-
species of the major families are
woodland of the sand-dune
listed below:
bloodwood (Corymbia
chippendalei) with a scattered Family Genera Species
shrub layer of acacias and Aluta
Amaranthaceae 1 10
(formerly Thryptomene)
Asteraceae 27 44
maisonnneuvei over a
hummock grassland (Triodia Chenopodiaceae 9 25
species). The desert grass tree Chloanthaceae 4 9
(Xanthorrhoea thorntoni) occurs
Euphorbiaceae 4 8
in patches on the plains and on
some low dunes. Goodeniaceae 5 27
Beard (1974a, 1974b, 1976) has Malvaceae 5 13
mapped the vegetation at Mimosaceae 1 27
1:1,000,000. Myoporaceae 1 26
At Good Camp Rockhole, while
Myrtaceae 7 19
collecting water in a very dirty
Papilionaceae 14 21
green pool, we collected a sample
of the green slime and later sent it Poaceae 15 27
to Dr Stephen Skinner in Sydney. Proteaceae 2 9
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Australia, 2nd edn. Western
Australian Herbarium, Depart¬
I would like to thank Kevin
ment of Agriculture: Perth.
Kenneally, Gilbert Marsh and
Barbara and Bob Backhouse, who JESSOP, John. 1981. Flora of Central
assisted greatly with the Australia. The Systematic Botany
processing and identification of Society, Sydney.
the specimens. To Paul Wilson
McKENZIE, N.L. and BURBIDGE,
and Bruce Maslin of the Western
A.A. 1979. The Wildlife of Some
Australian Herbarium for
Existing and Proposed Nature
identifications, and especially to
Reserves in the Gibson, Little Sandy
Barbara Backhouse for typing the
and Great Victoria Deserts, Western
extensive species list so ably.
Australia. Wildlife Research
Bulletin No 8.
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