Attachment 6 - Ecological Assessment.pdf

                                            Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights



     Scientific Name         Common Name                                    Likelihood of Occurring on the Site
                                                   Environment 2012).
                                                   Unlikely. Occurs in wallum communities and adjacent stabilised dunes and
                                                   coastal Melaleuca swamp wetlands. Associated species include Broad-leaved
                                                   Paperbark (Melaleuca quinqinervia) and Swamp Banksia (Banksia robur). The
                                                   species is also known to be associated with RE12.2.1 open or dry heath on
                                                   Quaternary coastal dunes and beaches or sand plains with Leptospermum sp.,
Prasophyllum wallum    Wallum leek-orchid
                                                   Leucopogon sp., Wedding Bush (Ricinocarpos pinifolius), Strangea linearis,
                                                   Daphne Heath (Brachyloma daphnoides), Small-leaved Geebung (Persoonia
                                                   virgata), Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoea sp.), Green Five Corners (Styphelia viridis),
                                                   Prickly Broom Heath (Monotoca scoparia), Snow Wreath (Woollsia pungens) and
                                                   stunted Black She-oak (Allocasuarina littoralis) (Dept. Environment 2012).
                                                   Unlikely: This tree generally occurs in very wet forest. The subject site is likely
Symplocos harroldii    Hairy hazelwood             to be too dry for this species. This species was not recorded from the subject
                                                   site during onsite surveys. Occurs in wet eucalypt forest, rainforest, RE 12.2.1,
                                                   RE 12.9-10.16, and RE 12.9-10.16x1 (Haslam 2014).
                                                   Possible: Notophyll vine forest mapped onsite. This species is restricted to a
                                                   small area on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, between Pomona and Woombye,
                                                   mainly in the Maroochy River catchment area, covering a range of approximately
                                                   40km. Occurs mainly in notophyll vine forest, or mixed tall open forest
Triunia robusta        Glossy spice bush           developing a rainforest understorey in the absence of fire. Most populations
                                                   occur within 25m of streams, on south or south-east facing slopes or river
                                                   terraces, with a few populations at higher topographic positions away from
                                                   watercourses. Occurs on well-drained soil, either clayey sand, loamy sand or
                                                   loams, derived from felsite substrate, alluvium or arenite mudrock (Dept.
                                                   Environment 2012).
                                                   Unlikely: Vegetation community along the drainage lines are too narrow and are
                                                   not consistent with the structural complexity that is expected to support this
                                                   species. This species was not recorded from the subject site during onsite
Xanthostemon                                       surveys. Predominantly occurs in riparian communities on slightly acid clayey
                       Southern penda
oppositifolius                                     sands to sandy clays derived from sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks
                                                   (Dept. Environment 2016). Associated vegetation includes notophyll vine forest,
                                                   simple notophyll mixed tall closed forest, or in transitional rainforest where the
                                                   upper stratum is composed mostly of tall sclerophyll elements with rainforest



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