Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 9-1

Flora -- Queensland -- North (Wet Tropics) Leptospermum wooroonooran (Myrtaceae) Mt. Bellenden Ker north-west of Babinda, Queensland September 1972 Larger image (162K)

This species forms a windsheared canopy and is also an emergent over the evergreen mossy thicket. Leptospermum wooroonooran trees are up to 10 metres high and some have trunks to 1 metre diameter. They are interpreted as part of relict communities more widespread in previous cool wet climatic periods.
Microphyll/nanophyll mossy thicket. Tropical wet highlands approximately 1500 metres altitude on granite.
References:
Tracey, J.G. (1982) The Vegetation of the Humid Tropical Region of North Queensland. Melbourne: CSIRO.
Also Webb, L.J. and Tracey, J.G. (1981) "Australian Rainforests: patterns and change." in Ecological Biogeography of Australia. Vol. 1, pp. 606-694. Ed. A. Keast. The Hague: W. Junk.

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