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PLATE 3 - Disturbed Open Heath on Coastal Dunes


Community 4 – Disturbed Paperbark Open Forest

This community occurs to the immediate north of Lot 6 on RP901384 and Lot 5 on RP890947. The
community is heavily degraded and represents the opportunism of non-indigenous flora (PLATE 4).
Situated within a mechanically altered drainage line that has been filled with boulders, the community is
dominated by Common Lantana, Broad-leaved Pepper Tree, Signal Grass, Elephant Grass, Molasses
Grass, Balsam Lily, Groundsel Bush, Typha and Glycine. Upper stratum species such as Broad-leaved
Paperbark, Macaranga, Black She-Oak and Black Wattle occur sporadically throughout. Although no
flora species of conservation significance were identified at the time of initial assessment, thorough
investigation is recommended.

A representative list of flora species is contained in Appendix C.

The community is heavily degraded and as such not representative of any described Regional Ecosystem.
This concurs with current EPA mapping of the investigation area.




Grasstree Court, Sunrise Beach      Ecological Assessment Report (BCR02)                PLACE Environmental

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