Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
Understanding relationships between extensive Acacia communities, e.g. brigalow and vine forests and thickets is critical in understanding the evolution of the Australian flora. Single species Acacia dominance in the canopy is a feature in long term natural successions in Australian rainforests (as well as short term forest recovery after damage in some types). The shaved floristic relationships of vineforests, i.e. Australia's rainforests, is obvious. Macropteranthes is closely allied to Lumnitzera - mangroves!
Image No. 13-3Landscapes -- Vegetation Types
Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla), Bonewood (Macropteranthes leichhardtii) over low microphyll vineforest
11 miles east of Rolleston, Queensland
November 1963
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References:
See Images 3-44, 3-98, 4-42, also Forster et al. (1991) Vineforest Plant Atlas for South East Queensland. Queensland Herbarium Publication.
Layered open forest on basaltic black cracking clays.
