Index - Vegetation of the Blue Mountains-Wollemi Region

The numeric code refers to the vegetation code was used in a fire prediction system, called PREPLAN. PREPLAN is an acronym for Pristine Resource Environment PLANning system. PREPLAN was set up in the mid 1980's to assist park managers with estimation of fire spread in the range of vegetation types found in the Blue Mountains-Wollemi land system. This system required reasonably detailed vegetation mapping, which was derived from a rudimentary decision tree mapping system. This decision tree mapping system basically used if then else logic statements to integrate GIS themes, such as digital terrain layers, geology, landform, and mapped vegetation to produce a vegetation map.

The alphanumeric vegetation code is a reference code of that vegetation type found within a particular vegetation province, which is a reflection of similar lithology, geomorphology, and climate in a given zone of the park of the land system. This formed the basis of modelling vegetation in such a diverse landscape.

The last category in the table referred to whether the vegetation type was mapped or modelled.

I am intending to upgrade this vegetation indes table as soon as I have completed a further floristic analysis of the vegetation of the Blue Mountains-Wollemi land system. The present table integrates all the vegetation mapping and flora survey work which has been carried out over the last fifteen years.

Vegetation Province Structure
Numeric Code
Vegetation Code
 Vegetation How Mapped
Alluvium Open Forest
1
A1.1
 Blue Gum Forest on Silty Alluvium

Modelled
Alluvium Open Forest
2
A1.2
 Open-forest on alluvial flats in the Colo River and Wheeny Creek Modelled
Alluvium Woodland
3
A1.3
 River Oak woodland - fringes of broad, flood-prone alluvial deposits Modelled
Alluvium Woodland
4
A1.4
 Woodland on alluvium with low rainfall Modelled
Perched Alluvium Open Woodland
5
A2.1
 Swamp Open Woodland on Drained Perched Sands Modelled
Perched Alluvium Open Woodland
6
A2.2
 Woodland on Moist Perched Sands Modelled
Perched Alluvium Woodland
7
A2.3
 Woodland on perched sands in the Cudgegong valleys Mapped
Perched Alluvium Sedgeland/Grassland
8
A2.4
 Cudgegong swamp Mapped
Basalt Mountains & Residuals Rainforest
9
R.1
 Montane Basalt Cap rainforest Mapped
Basalt Mountains & Residuals Open Forest
10
V1.1
 Montane Basalt Cap Open Forest Modelled
Basalt Mountains & Residuals Open Forest
11
V1.2
 Open-forest on basalt-influenced sandstone slopes - high to very high rainfall. Modelled
Basalt Mountains & Residuals Woodland
12
V2.1
 Woodland on Dry basalt caps Modelled
Basalt Mountains & Residuals Open Woodland
13
V2.2
 Woodland on larger basalt flows Modelled
Basalt Mountains & Residuals Woodland
14
V3.1
 Tableland Forest on residual Basalt Modelled
Basalt Mountains & Residuals Open Forest
15
V3.2
 Montane Basalt Forest in Diatremes Modelled
Basalt Mountains & Residuals Open Forest
16
V4.1
 Open-forest on diatremes Modelled

Narrabeen Sandstone Plateau

 Woodland
17
T1.1
 Woodland on semi-arid sandstones Modelled
Narrabeen Sandstone Plateau Rainforest
20
R.2
 Sandstone Gorge Warm Temperate rainforests Mapped
Narrabeen Sandstone Plateau Rainforest
21
R.3
 Sandstone Gorge Warm Temperate rainforests Mapped
Narrabeen Sandstone Plateau Rainforest
22
R.4
 Northern Sub-tropical Rainforest Mapped
Narrabeen Sandstone Plateau Woodland
23
T2.1
 Woodland / open-forest on sheltered aspects in the north-eastern part of Wollemi Modelled
Narrabeen Sandstone Plateau Woodland
24
T2.2
 Eastern & north-eastern Wollemi forest complex Modelled
Hawkesbury Sandstone Plateau Rainforest
25
R.5
 Wheeny Creek group rainforests Mapped
Hawkesbury Sandstone Plateau Woodland
26
T3.1
 Hawkesbury-Narrabeen Sheltered (Blue Gum) Forest Modelled
Hawkesbury Sandstone Plateau Rainforest
27
T3.2
 Central lower Blue Mountains-Wollemi forest complex Modelled
Hawkesbury Sandstone Plateau Open Forest
28
T3.3
 Central lower Blue Mountains-Wollemi woodland complex Modelled
Hawkesbury Sandstone Plateau Open Forest
29
T3.4
 Woodland/Open Forest on plateau near Warragamba Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Open Forest
30
T3.5
 Narrabeen/Hawkesbury Wollemi Woodland complex Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Open Forest
31
T3.6
 Southern Yengo Group Heaths Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Woodland
32
T4.1
 Western Wollemi Sheltered Eucalypt Shrub Forest Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Open Forest
33
T4.2
 Western Wollemi Woodland Complex Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Woodland
34
T5.1
 Open-forest on general sandstone slopes Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Woodland
35
T5.2
 High Montane Narrabeen Open Forest Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Open Woodland
36
T5.3
 Narrabeen Montane Woodland Complex Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Woodland
37
T5.4
 Montane Open Sedge Woodland Complex Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Sedgelands
38
T5.5
 Woodland on dry aspects, northern edges of Newnes Plateau Modelled
Sandstone Plateau Shrubland
39
T5.6
 Wollangambe Group Heaths Mapped
Sandstone Plateau Open Forest
40
T5.7
 Montane Plateau Tussock Sedge Swamps Mapped
Sandstone Plateau Open Forest
41
T5.8
 Newnes Plateau riparian swamps Mapped
Shale Residuals  Woodland
42
T6.1
 Open-forest south of Colo River on shale capped ridges Modelled
Shale Residuals  Open Forest
43
T6.2
 Remnant Shale Cap Dry shrub/grass/herb Forest Mapped
Sandstone Pagodas
 Heathy Low Woodland
44
T7.1
 Open-forest / heath complex in areas with higher rainfall Mapped
Sandstone Pagodas
 Woodland
45
T7.2
 Heath / low open-woodland complex in areas of low rainfall Modelled
Goulburn Valley Plateau Woodland
46
T8.1
 Narrabeen Goulburn sheltered valley forest Modelled
Permian Mudstones Low Woodland
47
T8.2
 North-western Wollemi/Goulburn River Eucalypt Shrub Woodland Modelled
Permian Mudstones Open Forest
48
T8.3
 Broombush mallee - Acacia doratoxylon shrubland Status of type not certain
Permian Mudstones Open Forest
50
P.1
 Open-forest on general slopes in high rainfall areas Modelled
Permian Mudstones Woodland
51
P.2
 Woodland/Open Forest on steep exposed slopes in moderate-high rainfall areas, on talus slopes Modelled
Permian Mudstones Woodland
52
P.3
 Woodland on talus slopes and hillsides in moderate rainfall areas Modelled
Permian Mudstones Woodland
53
P.4
 Permian talus dry shrub/grass forest/woodland Modelled
Permian Mudstones Woodland
54
P.5
 Capertee Permian Talus Woodland Modelled
Permian Mudstones Woodland
55
P.6
 Capertee Permian lower talus woodland Modelled
Permian Mudstones Open Forest
56
P.7
 Woodland on sheltered, broad gully-bottoms in moderate rainfall areas (Upper Capertee) or on Bindook plateau Modelled
Permian Mudstones Open Forest
57
P.8
 Open forest on sheltered sites in moderate rainfall areas Modelled
Permian Mudstones Woodland
58
P.9
 Vegetation on flat basins and on impervious soils Modelled
Permian Mudstones Sedgelands
59
P.10
 Swamps on Permian valley sediments Modelled
Granites Woodland
60
Cg.1
 Woodland on Carboniferous granites, below Boyd plateau Modelled
Granites Woodland
61
Cg.2
 Woodland in the Upper Coxs on granitic soils Modelled
Basement Sediments Rainforest
62
D.1
 Kowmung Dry Rainforests Modelled
Basement Sediments Open Forest
63
D.2
 Kowmung Moist Shrub/Herb Forest Modelled
Basement Sediments Woodland
64
D.3
 Kowmung Dry Shrub/herb Forest Modelled
Basement Sediments Open Forest
65
D.4
 Open-forest on high plateaux or exposed ridge-tops Modelled
Basement Sediments Woodland
66
D.5
 Capertee River White Box grassy Woodland Modelled
Basement Sediments Woodland
67
D.6
 Kowmung-Coxs Woodland on dry exposed slopes Modelled
Basement Sediments Woodland
68
D.7
 Porphyry Box Woodland Modelled
Basement Sediments Open Forest
69
D.8
 Open-forest/woodland on sheltered slopes, southern BMs Modelled
Karst Woodland
70
K.1
 Woodland on karst Modelled
High Plateau Open Forest
71
Cp.1
 Tall Open-forest on sheltered slopes Modelled
High Plateau Woodland
72
Cp.2
 Kowmung Escarpment dry-moist fern/grass/shrub forest Modelled
High Plateau Woodland
73
Cp.3
 Boyd Plateau Dry Shrub-grass Open Forest Modelled
High Plateau Woodland
74
Cp.4
 Central Tablelands Plateau dry grass forest/woodland Modelled
High Plateau Woodland
75
Cp.5
 Central Tablelands valley floor Dry Shrub-grass Open Forest Modelled
High Plateau Woodland
76
Cp.6
 Widespread Tablelands Dry shrub tussock grass forest Modelled
High Plateau Sedgeland
77
Cp.7
 Boyd Plateau group swamps. Mapped
Sandstone Plateau Shrubland
78
H.1
 Montane heath [not restricted to a province] Mapped
Sandstone Plateau Shrubland
79
H.2
 Narrabeen Montane Cifftop Open Shrubland Mapped

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Last Updated on 15/12/2000
By Nic Gellie