Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
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Vegetation Types
Vegetation Types
"Casual lagoon" with Freshwater Mangrove (Barringtonia gracilis) in sclerophyll layered woodland with scattered tropical rainforest-derived taxa, e.g. Szygium, Parinari, Cassia, Securinega ... adapted to savanna/fire conditions.
Silver Plains near Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962."Holmes Jungle" near Darwin, a type of semideciduous notophyll vine forest fringing alluvium of stream.
Darwin, Northern Territory, Jun 1963."Orchard country", i.e. open grassy shrubland/low forest 3-6 metres of Eucalyptus foelschiana, Hakea, Syzygium, Erythrophloeum, Persoonia, Pandanus, and grasses.
South of Darwin on Adelaide River road, Northern Territory, June 1963.A more open type of semideciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest with leafless crowns tending to deciduous vine thicket.
Llankelly Creek, lower western slopes McIlwraith Range near Coen, Queensland, November 1969.Advanced stage (brushbox-marara) of regeneration of Coachwood type rainforest.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Aerial shot of canopy mosaic of complex mesophyll vine forest with scattered palm patches on coastal plain.
Barratt's Lagoon via Euramoo, Queensland, November 1965.Aerial shot of canopy mosaic of mesophyll vine forest with extensive palm patches (Archontophoenix alexandrae) on tropical wet lowland soils with impeded drainage.
Near El Arish, Queensland, November 1965.Attenuated Deciduous Vine Thicket element persisting in "fire shadow" of granitic outcrop, among sclerophyll grassy woodland.
Mt Carbine to Cooktown road, Queensland, 1959.Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis) "wet sclerophyl forest", reaching ca. 60 metres high, but regularly subject to wildfires on relatively infertile soils and fire-paths of spurs and ridges.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, 1959.Box woodland with Eucalyptus brownii (Myrtaceae).
Between Lynd Junction and Hughenden(?), Queensland, 1970(?).Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla)-Belah (Casuarina cristata) remnant with large gilgai ("melon-hole") on black cracking clays.
Myall Park, Queensland, 1959.Broken-canopied complex mesophyll vine forest exposed to intermittent cyclones, lowland foothills.
Near El Arish, Queensland, November 1965.Brushbox (Lophostemon confertus)-Coachwood (Ceratoptalum apetalum) at dynamic penultimate stage before mature Coachwood forest.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Brushwood- Coachwood stand - disturbed profile along logging road.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Brushwood- Coachwood stand - disturbed profile along logging road.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Burnt "hog wallow" (caused by feral pigs) in marginal (occasional surface fires) gallery forest as shown in Image 15-46.
Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1975.Canopy of mixed mesophyll-notophyll vine forest with several canopy gaps, emergents, and grey-crowned Acacia aulocarpa(?) regenerated along exposed ridges with shallow soils in gaps following persistent cyclone damage.
Mt Maria near Tully, Queensland, November 1965.Canopy of semideciduous mesophyll vine forest showing densely clustered (but not touching) crowns typical of wet-moist rainforest types, in this case without conspicuous emergents.
Lockerbie, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1962.Cleared area near road with intact semideciduous notophyll vine forest on hilltop.
The "Gap", just south of Cooktown, Queensland, August 1962.Close-up of deciduous vine thicket in fireproof habitat provided by granitic boulders.
West of Bruce Highway near Bowen, Queensland, August 1972.Close-up of deciduous vine thicket in fireproof habitat provided by granitic boulders.
West of Bruce Highway near Bowen, Queensland, August 1972.Close-up of deciduous vine thicket in fireproof habitat provided by granitic boulders.
West of Bruce Highway near Bowen, Queensland, August 1972.Close-up of deciduous vine thicket in fireproof habitat provided by granitic boulders.
West of Bruce Highway near Bowen, Queensland, August 1972.Close-up of deciduous vine thicket in fireproof habitat provided by granitic boulders.
West of Bruce Highway near Bowen, Queensland, August 1972.Close-up of deciduous vine thicket in fireproof habitat provided by granitic boulders.
West of Bruce Highway near Bowen, Queensland, August 1972.Close-up of dense understorey in Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis) stand, with high fire frequency, thus all sclerophyll species.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Close-up of mangrove vegetation.
Delta of Seymour River, north of Ingham, Queensland, November 1965.Close-up of saline flat shown in Image 15-13, mangroves in background.
Delta of Seymour River, north of Ingham, Queensland, November 1965.Close-up of tropical "vine scrub" edge shown in Image 17-23.
West of Bruce Highway near Bowen, Queensland, November 1965.Complex mesophyll vine forest along creek with granite boulders and lawyer vine (Calamus spp.) in canopy.
Near Babinda, Queensland, November 1956.Complex notophyll vine forest with emergent Acacia aulacocarpa on ridge 450 metre altitude, low fertility red earths from schists.
McDowall Range north of Daintree, Queensland, June 1969.Complex notophyll vine forest with emergent Acacia aulacocarpa on ridge 450 metre altitude, low fertility red earths from schists.
McDowall Range north of Daintree, Queensland, June 1969.Complex notophyll vine-fern forest with sclerophyll emergents on basalt.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Cool temperate rainforest (Nothofagus moorei) with sclerophyll emergents plus snow in winter, altitude ca. 1000 metres.
Point Lookout, New England National Park, New South Wales, 1952.Cool temperate/montane rainforest (microphyll fern forest) typical of cloudy wet summits of coastal Northern New South Wales.
Banda Road, Mt Boss State Forest, New South Wales, January 1965.Cool temperate/montane rainforest (microphyll fern forest) typical of cloudy wet summits of coastal Northern New South Wales.
Banda Road, Mt Boss State Forest, New South Wales, January 1965.Deciduous Vine Thicket - tropical monsoon "scrub" or "bottle tree scrub" - degraded remnant in savanna.
Forty-Mile Scrub, west of Mt Garnet, Queensland, October 1964.Deciduous Vine Thicket element (Terminalia, Dendrolobium etc.), palm (Borassus), Melaleuca leucadendra and Tristania along creek.
Laura to Coen road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Deciduous Vine Thicket element (Terminalia, Dendrolobium etc.), palm (Borassus), Melaleuca leucadendra and Tristania along creek.
Laura to Coen road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Deciduous Vine Thicket element on brown cracking clay along dry river bed.
Kennedy River north of Laura, Queensland, November 1969.Deciduous Vine Thicket on fire-proof limestone (karst) hill, surrounded by regularly burnt savanna.
Munganma, near Chillagoe, Queensland, May 1970.Deciduous Vine Thicket on fire-proof limestone (karst) hill, surrounded by regularly burnt savanna.
Munganma, near Chillagoe, Queensland, May 1970.Deciduous Vine Thicket on limestone.
Munganma, near Chillagoe, Queensland, May 1970.Deciduous Vine Thicket on limestone.
Munganma, near Chillagoe, Queensland, May 1970.Deciduous Vine Thicket on limestone.
Munganma, near Chillagoe, Queensland, May 1970.Deciduous Vine Thicket on limestone hill which is fire-proof.
Munganma near Chillagoe, Queensland, May 1970.Deciduous Vine Thicket on limestone karst hills protected from wildfires.
Chillagoe, Queensland, 1955.Deciduous Vine Thicket, mainly leafless at end of dry winter and spring.
Coliander Hill, east of Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Deciduous vine thicket - low microphyll semi-evergreen vine forest with emergent Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii).
Magnetic Island off Townsville, Queensland, 1965?.Deciduous vine thicket on stony fire-protected hill.
East of Bruce Highway south of Ayr, Queensland, November 1965.Degraded outlier of notophyll vine forest on stony slope (mostly fire-proof).
Deep Creek two miles west of turnoff to Bombala from Panbula, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Dense mangrove forest.
Missionary Bay, Hinchinbrook Channel, Queensland, August 1972.Distant shot of Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis) stand, with high fire frequency, thus all sclerophyll species.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Distant shot of tropical "vine scrub" shown in Image 17-23.
West of Bruce Highway near Bowen, Queensland, November 1965.Disturbed and burnt monsoon forest type (semideciduous notophyll vine forest(?), occasional interspersed eucalypts 12-15 metres.
Darwin to Beatrice Hills road, Northern Territory, June 1963.Disturbed and burnt monsoon forest type (semideciduous notophyll vine forest(?), occasional interspersed eucalypts 12-15 metres.
Darwin to Beatrice Hills road, Northern Territory, June 1963.Disturbed dry layered sclerophyll woodland with Eucalyptus sieberiana and Banksia ericifolia, etc.
Jamboree Pass, New South Wales, August 1955.Disturbed layered woodland 10-12 metres (Eucalyptus miniata, E. clavigera) with understorey of Buchanania, Terminalia, Alphitonia and other species which are adapted to tolerate fire, but which belong to genera with fire-sensitive species in monsoon forest.
Darwin to Humpty Doo road, Northern Territory, June 1963.Disturbed moist "littoral" subtropical rainforest on sheltered nutrient-enriched coastal sands.
Kingscliffe, New South Wales, 1959.Disturbed moist subtropical rainforest with tall Hoop Pine emergents reaching ca. 50 metres high.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, November 1956.Disturbed profile of mixed notophyll vine forest with sclerophyll emergents (e.g. Acacia spp.) on poor soils from granite.
Gap Creek, Bloomfield River area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, July 1962.Dr John Bigarella among now rare "Wallum" heath and scrub of high species diversity on low fertility, texture-contrast sandy soils of coastal south Queensland.
Near Coolum, Queensland, June 1980.Dune swale (fresh water) behind beach with tall robust paper-barks (Melaleuca leucadendron).
South of Hartley's Creek, Cook Highway, Queensland, November 1972.Early successional stage of warm temperate/submontane rainforest.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, 1960.Edge of Mitchell grass savanna on calcareous cracking brown clay, with patches of lateritic gravel on low rises/crests, with layered open scrub (Ventilago, Grevillea, Dolichandrone, Carissa, Eucalyptus pruinosa ...), i.e. some genera of the wetter rainforests and subcoastal deciduous vine thickets.
About 25 km. west of Normanton, Queensland, June 1970.Edge of complex mesophyll vine forest (tropical lowland rainforest) on poor schist soils, tending to impeded drainage on flats.
Cape Tribulation, Queensland, November 1971.Edge of disturbed complex mesophyll vine forest on coastal plain.
Davidson Creed valley near Tully, Queensland, June 1973.Edge of semideciduous mesophyll vine forest.
Massey Creek area, east of Coen, Queensland, November 1969.Edge of tall (canopy averaging 40-45 metres) wet subtropical rainforest (complex notophyll vine forest) on rich (eutrophic) basaltic krasnozems at foot of Gibberagunyah Range.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, 1959.Edge of tall dense gallery forest: semi-deciduous mesophyll-notophyll vine forest.
Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1975.Edge of tropical "vine scrub" shown in Image 17-23, downslope in grassy woodland/savanna with Ironbark (Eucalyptus crebra).
West of Bruce Highway near Bowen, Queensland, November 1965.Even-canopied cool temperate rainforest.
Waratah, Tasmania, February 1957.Evergreen notophyll vine forest on tropical sandy coastal soils of limited fertility.
"Heathlands" (Capelands) at head of Jardine River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, July 1975.Fire damage to vine forest remnant.
Ingham to Mt. Fox road, Queensland, December 1968.Fire-free refuge enables survival of vine forests.
Davies Creek Road, Mareeba, Queensland, August 1962.Fire-tolerant deciduous vine thicket tree spp. interspersed with low sclerophyll grassy woodland on granite soils.
Peach Creek-Leo Creek near Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Floor of mangrove closed forest at low tide, showing twisted mass of "breathing" roots, plank buttress, seedlings.
Delta of Seymour River, north of Ingham, Queensland, November 1965.Frequently burnt layered grassy woodland with bloodwood (Eucalyptus polycarpa) and sessile "black-boys" (Xanthorrhoea sp.) among grass tufts.
Near Mareeba, Queensland, May 1962.Grassy forest with Melaleuca minutifolia.
Mareeba to Kuranda road, Queensland, May 1962.Grassy open forest (Eucalyptus miniata, E. tetrodonta, E. polycarpa) on red sands.
14 miles southeast of Wrotham Park, west of Mareeba, Queensland, May 1970.Grassy open forest (Eucalyptus miniata, E. tetrodonta, E. polycarpa) on red sands.
14 miles southeast of Wrotham Park, west of Mareeba, Queensland, May 1970.Grassy open forest (no shrub layer) with eucalypts and occasional wildfires.
Barrington Tops area, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Grassy open woodland (Eucalyptus alba) and "magnetic" termite mounds (oriented with narrow sides roughly north-south).
Silver Plains Station, near Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Grassy scrub/shrubland with deciduous Terminalia sp. dominant on low (less than 1 metre local relief) sand dunes.
8 km east of Karumba, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, June 1970.Grassy woodland and snow grass plains, altitude ca. 3000 metres.
Point Lookout, New England National Park, New South Wales, July 1955.Grassy woodland on poor grey solodic soils, patch of deciduous vine thicket in partly fire-proof bouldery niche in background.
East of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Grassy woodland/low open forest (Eucalyptus crebra/E. whitei, plus box, E. polycarpa?) on basaltic krasnozem plains.
8 miles north of Kinrara, north of Hughenden Highway, Queensland, June 1970.Gully with deeper soils and more fire-protected, supporting more complex notophyll vine forest than that shown in Images 18-45 and 18-46.
West of Kempsey, New South Wales, February 1965.Heath and low shrubland.
Southwest Province, Western Australia, 1958.Heath with Callistemon in flower.
Near Albany, Western Australia, September 1973.Heath-scrub.
Near Albany, Western Australia, September 1973.Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii var glauca) stand on island in Shute Harbour off Proserpine.
Near Proserpine, Queensland, July 1965.Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii var glauca) stand on island in Shute Harbour off Proserpine.
Near Proserpine, Queensland, July 1965.Inside edge of semideciduous mesophyll vine forest, evidently disturbed with open floor and shrubby regrowth in background.
Claudie River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1968.Interior of "wet sclerophyll forest" dominated by Satinay (Syncarpia hillii) and Brush Box (Lophostemon confertus).
Pile Valley/Valley of the Giants, Fraser Island, Queensland, June 1964.Interior of evergreen sclerophyllous scrub on low fertility lateritic soil.
Capelands to Captain Billy Landing road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, July 1975.Interior of gallery forest on riverine alluvia.
Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1976.Interior of low open semi-deciduous vine forest.
Llankelly Creek, western slopes of McIlwraith Range, north of Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Interior of low open semi-deciduous vine forest.
Llankelly Creek, western slopes of McIlwraith Range, north of Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Interior of low open semi-deciduous vine forest.
Llankelly Creek, western slopes of McIlwraith Range, north of Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Interior of marginal wet sclerophyll eucalypt forest.
Shelley Beach, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, December 1971.Interior of moist-wet warm temperate rainfores (simple notophyll vine forest) showing relatively clear trunk spaces and fewer life forms than complex notophyll vine forest.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, November 1956.Interior of riverine (gallery forest) semideciduous mesophyll vine forest, disturbed by Aboriginal camping, fishing, etc. .
Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1976.Interior of riverine (gallery forest) semideciduous mesophyll vine forest, disturbed by Aboriginal camping, fishing, etc. .
Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1976.Interior of riverine semideciduous mesophyll vine forest (gallery forest on alluvium).
Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1976.Interior of semi-deciduous mesophyll vine forest - tall seasonally moist ("submonsoonal") rainforest.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Interior of semideciduous mesophyll vine forest with diffuse stratification and many robust lianes.
Near Starke, north of Cooktown, Queensland, July 1962.Interior of semideciduous mesophyll vine forest with diffuse stratification and many robust lianes.
Near Starke, north of Cooktown, Queensland, July 1962.Interior of semideciduous mesophyll vine forest with diffuse stratification and many robust lianes.
Near Starke, north of Cooktown, Queensland, July 1962.Interior of simple palm vine forest adjacent to open wet sclerophyll forest.
Terania Creek, New South Wales, ca. 1979.Isolate and classical "refugium" of great biogeographical interest, provided by volcanic craters of early Holocene age.
Kinrara, southeast of Mt. Garnet, Queensland, May 1970.Isolate and classical "refugium" of great biogeographical interest, provided by volcanic craters of early Holocene age.
Kinrara, southeast of Mt. Garnet, Queensland, May 1970.Layered forest: Spotted Gum-Cycad (Macrozamia).
Near Bega, New South Wales, Ca. 1955.Layered grassy woodland with bloodwood (Eucalyptus polycarpa) and dense grass-tree (Xanthorrhoea) patches.
Near Mareeba, Queensland, October 1973.Layered grassy woodland with ironbark (Eucalyptus crebra), she-oak (Casuarina luehmannii).
Near Mareeba, Queensland, May 1962.Layered open forest dominated by eucalypts, from regular wildfires.
Barrington Tops area, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Layered open forest dominated by eucalypts, from regular wildfires.
Barrington Tops area, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Layered open forest, marginal to temperate rainforest.
Barrington Tops area, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Layered tall open forest (messmate, bloodwood, ironwood, Terminalia, Pandanus, Grevillea, Carpentaria Palm.
Near South Alligator River, Northern Territory, May 1978.Layered woodland (Eucalyptus pellita, Xanthorrhoea sp., Acacia, Grevillea, with sedges and grasses) on seasonally swampy coastal plain.
Near El Arish, Queensland, November 1965.Layered woodland on slope, lateritic gravelly ridge in background supporting mixed understorey of monsoon forest (in those days so-called "Indo-Malesian") species.
Holmes Jungle road near Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Layered woodland with Eucalyptus tetrodonta, E. clavigera, E. tectifera; understorey includes Erythrophleum Denhamia, Flanchonella, Xanthosemon, Alstonia, Canarium, Alphitonia, Livistona.
Holmes Jungle road near Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Layered woodland: dominated by Eucalyptus tetrodonta, E. bleeseri, ca. 14 metres, with shrubs 2-3 metres, e.g. Calythrix, Grevillea, Terminalia, palm Livistona, and well developed grass layer.
Holmes Jungle road near Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Leptospermum scrub/shrubland with mossy patches on rhyolite pavement.
Whian Whian, New South Wales, ca. 1960.Littoral rainforest previously well-developed on basaltic headland, now showing signs of recent exposure to salt-laden southeasterly winds, and death of more sensitive species, e.g. Bangalow Palms (Archontophoenix cunninghamii).
Port Macquarie, New South Wales, December 1971.Littoral rainforest remnant protected from salt-laden winds.
North of Cabarita, New South Wales, 1959.Logged and partly cleared warm temperate rainforest with Hoop Pine emergents (Araucaria cunninghamii) on relatively poor soils from schists.
Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, late 1950s.Low forest of Lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) ca. 7 metres on gravelly quartz ridges.
West of Georgetown, Queensland, May 1970.Low grassy open woodland (Eucalyptus terminalis, E. argillacea) and Bauhinia in centre.
42 miles north of Gregory Downs, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, June 1970.Low grassy woodland with eucalypts and Snow Grass (Poa caespitosa).
Barrington Tops, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Low layered grassy woodland (Eucalyptus shirleyi, E. setosa).
Hann Highway, just north of Lynd, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1970.Low layered grassy woodland in sandstone country.
Near Laura, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1972.Low layered open woodland (Eucalyptus setosa, E. terminalis/polycarpa, E. grandifolia) with understorey of Petalostigma, Dolichandrone -- grey hard-setting clays.
22 miles west of Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, June 1970.Low layered woodland with abundant Themeda australis (Kangaroo Grass).
Near Mareeba, Queensland, May 1962.Low microphyll evergreen fern thicket.
Bellenden Ker summit, Queensland, September 1972.Low open grassy forest/shrubland.
West of Wrotham Park, Queensland, May 1970.Low open grassy woodland (Georgetown Box and Narrow-Leaf Ironbark) with "autumn colouring", plus scattered fire-tolerant deciduous vine thicket tree species, e.g. Cochlospermum.
80 km west of Mt Surprise, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Date uncertain.Mallee-habitat, i.e. branched from base of "Georgetown Box" (Eucalyptus sp).
11 km west of Georgetown, Queensland, June 1970.Mangrove Palm (Nypa fruticans) closed forest patches, presumably relict, occur near river mouths in Cape York Peninsula.
Herbert River near Halifax, Queensland, October 1968.Mangrove closed forest at edge of sugar cane paddock.
Herbert River near Halifax, Queensland, October 1968.Mangrove forest: Bruguiera gymnorhiza.
Coopers Creek north of Daintree, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1965.Mangroves fringing river.
Daintree River, Queensland, September 1962.Mangroves fringing river among samphire flats and saline meadows of the vast Carpentaria coastal plains.
Albert River near Burketown, Queensland, June 1970.Mangroves in estuary with tropical lowland rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest above.
Hinchinbrook Channel, Queensland, May 1972.Mangroves with tall Rhizophora with stilt-roots in foreground.
Machans Beach, Queensland, 1962.Mangroves with tall Rhizophora with stilt-roots in foreground.
Machans Beach, Queensland, 1962.Massey Creek nearly dry towards end of dry winter, with semideciduous mesophyll vine forest (riverine or gallery forest).
Silver Plains east of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Medium grassy woodland, typical "box" flat with Eucalyptus leptophleba.
South of Palmer River on Mareeba road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1970?.Medium layered woodland/open forest with stringybark, ironbark (Eucalyptus spp.), and scented spotted gum (E. citriodora) on granitic soils.
Mt Fox, Queensland, November 1968.Mesophyll vine forest (tropical lowland rainforest) with abundant feather palms (Archontophoenix alexandrae).
Near Babinda, Queensland, 1959.Mesophyll vine forest with dominant Feather-leaf Palm (Archontophoenix alexandriae) in seasonal swamp.
Fishery Creek remnant (now an extinct ecosystem), Queensland, August 1964.Mixed notophyll vine forest and sclerophylls subject to fire incursions at junction with savanna, granitic soils.
Granite Creek road, Bloomfield, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, July 1962.Mixed sclerophyll forest (Eucalypts and Melaleuca tree spp.) in marginal semideciduous mesophyll vine forest.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Moist, low, simple evergreen notophyll-microphyll vine forest on siliceous shallow soils of exposed upland-highland (ca. 800-1200 metres) granitic ridges of subcoastal ranges.
Windsor Tableland west of Mossman, Queensland, October 1973.Moist, low, simple evergreen notophyll-microphyll vine forest on siliceous shallow soils of exposed upland-highland (ca. 800-1200 metres) granitic ridges of subcoastal ranges.
Windsor Tableland west of Mossman, Queensland, October 1973.Mosaic of complex mesophyll vine forest, fan palms (Licuala ramsayi), paper-bark forest, etc. - poor soils from schists and granites.
Near El Arish, Queensland, 1959.New England Blackbutt (Eucalyptus campanulata/andrewsii).
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Open Shrubland/Grassy woodland with scattered elements of monsoon forest, e.g. Terminalia (deciduous).
West of Wrotham Park west of Mareeba, Queensland, May 1970.Open grassy scrub/shrubland of Tea-tree (Melaleuca sp.) on clay and some sand mixtures.
East of Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, June 1970.Open grassy shrubland with patch of monsoon forest elements, e.g. two species of Terminalia.
West of Wrotham Park, Queensland, May 1970.Paper-bark forest (Melaleuca quinquinervia) and typical scrambling fern (Stenochlaena palustris) swamp.
South of Daintree, Queensland, ca. 1960.Paper-bark forest on swampy coastal plains with duplex (solodic) soils, sedges rather than grass dominant.
Near El Arish, Queensland, November 1956.Patch of Deciduous Vine Thicket (in Eucalyptus alba savanna/ grassy woodland).
Silver Plains Station east of Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Patch of Paper-bark (Melaleuca spp.) on solodic soil among eucalypt grassy woodland.
North of Julatten on Cooktown road, Queensland, 1962.Patch of degraded decidous vine thicket in grassy woodland.
Aurukun, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Patch of grassy shrubland with Acacia sp. ("cumberlandi") with attractive weeping foliage, grey-brown clay on savann plains.
South of Augusta Downs, Gulf of Carpentaria region, Queensland, June 1970.Profile of cloudy moist cool subtropical rainforest (complex notophyll vine forest, with Araucaria bidwillii emergents).
West side of old "Lucerne Patch", Bunya Mountains, Queensland, December 1954.Profile of disturbed complex mesophyll vine forest (tropical lowland rainforest) showing typical life forms and dense stratification.
Near Babinda, Queensland, mid 1950s.Profile of partly disturbed moist-wet subtropical rainforest (complex notophyll vine forset), showing strangler figs, plank buttresses and other life forms.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, November 1956.Recently disturbed buffer zone has exposed salt sensitive palms and other subtropical species, including some low wind-pruned species.
Shelley Beach, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, October 1971.Remnant of warm temperate rainforest (simple notophyll vine-fern forest) outlier, with Polyscias murrayi, Eupomatia laurina, Notelaea longifolia and other "wides".
Just north of Eden, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Sand ridges, rainfall ca. four inches annual average, grass Zygochloa, stunted shrubs Acacia ligulata.
Edge of Simpson Desert, Central Australia, 1950s.Sandplain and thicket in background.
Near Northcliffe, Southwest Province, Western Australia, 1958?.Sclerophyll Eucalyptus nitens overtopping disturbed cool temperate rainforest with Nothofagus moorei, with regular snowfalls in winer. Altitude ca. 1000 metres.
New England National Park, New South Wales, July 1955.Sclerophyll forest - Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata).
Near Pemberton, Western Australia, 1958.Sclerophyll grassy woodland above, deciduous vine thicket below in fire-sheltered edge of the volcanic crater.
Kinrara Crater, Queensland, May 1970.Scrub and low woodland.
Southwest Province, Western Australia, 1958.Scrub-heath on sandy soils.
Southwest, Western Australia, 1958.Seaward edge of partly sheltered, weed-invaded littoral rainforest in lee of salt wind-tolerant species such as Alectryon, Cupaniopsis.
Kingscliffe, New South Wales, 1959.Seaward edge of partly sheltered, weed-invaded littoral rainforest in lee of salt wind-tolerant species such as Alectryon, Cupaniopsis.
Kingscliffe, New South Wales, 1959.Secondary disturbed wet sclerophyll forest (Eucalyptus nitens) adjacent to cool temperated rainforest. Altitude ca. 1000 metres.
New England National Park, New South Wales, July 1955.Secondary, i.e. partly disturbed regrowth semideciduous mesophyll vine forest with abrupt edge (narrow ecotone) of grassy open forest pocket.
Iron Range area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1968.Semi-deciduous mesophyll-notophyll vine forest on moister site: note plank buttress (a growth form not in deciduous vine thicket).
Llankelly Creek, western slopes of McIlwraith Range, north of Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Semidecidous notophyll vine forest with mostly leafless tree spp. .
Llankelly Creek, lower western slopes McIlwraith Range near Coen, Queensland, November 1969.Semideciduous mesophyll vine forest.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Semideciduous mesophyll vine forest edge, disturbed and regularly burnt.
Iron Range area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1968.Semideciduous mesophyll vine forest on riverine alluvial sand over travertine limestone.
Archer River near Aurukun Aboriginal Mission, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Semideciduous mesophyll vine forest on riverine alluvial sand over travertine limestone.
Archer River near Aurukun Aboriginal Mission, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Semideciduous mesophyll vine forest with leafless emergents Bombax, Ficus, Terminalia spp. on basaltic krasnozem soils.
Starke, north of Cooktown, Queensland, August 1962.Semideciduous mesophyll vine forest with leafless emergents Bombax, Ficus, Terminalia spp. on basaltic krasnozem soils.
Starke, north of Cooktown, Queensland, August 1962.Simple evergreen microphyll-nanophyll vine-fern thicket, with Leptospermum wooroonooran exposed by TV tower installation.
Summit of Bellenden Ker Range, ca. 1600 metres, Queensland, 1970s.Simple microphyll evergreen stunted vine-fern thicket on cloudy wet summit.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, September 1972.Simple microphyll evergreen stunted vine-fern thicket on cloudy wet summit.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, September 1972.Simple microphyll evergreen stunted vine-fern thicket with Leptospermum wooroonooran on cloudy wet summit.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, September 1972.Simple microphyll evergreen stunted vine-fern thicket with Leptospermum wooroonooran on cloudy wet summit.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, September 1972.Simple microphyll vine-fern forest (coachwood-watergum) near summit on skeletal soils, not fire-prone.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Simple microphyll vine-fern forest dominated by Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum) merging with microphyll mossy-fern forest with Antarctic Beech (Nothofagus mooorei).
Never Never Creek, Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, February 1964.Simple notophyll vine forest (upland rainforest on limited fertility soils.
Atherton Tableland, Queensland, November 1954.Simple notophyll vine-fern forest, i.e. cloudy moist submontane ("warm temperate") rainforest on schists.
Dome Mt, Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, July 1955.Simple notophyll-microphyll vine-fern forest with sclerophyll emergents, e.g. Eucalyptus microcorys.
Moonpar State Forest, New South Wales, 1958.Snow grass (Poa caespitosa) plain and regenerating Eucalyptus nitens near edge of escarpment.
New England National Park, New South Wales, July 1955.Snow grass (Poa caespitosa) plain and regenerating Eucalyptus nitens near edge of escarpment.
New England National Park, New South Wales, July 1955.Snow grass (Poa caespitosa) plain and regenerating Eucalyptus nitens near edge of escarpment.
New England National Park, New South Wales, July 1955.Sparse leafless deciduous vine thicket on limestone karst hills (fire-proof).
Chillagoe, Queensland, November 1962.Strand vine forest (so-called "littoral rainforest" in New South Wales) with Mimusops and Peltophorum.
East Pt near Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Strand vine forest (so-called "littoral rainforest" in New South Wales) with Mimusops and Peltophorum.
East Pt near Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Streamlined low vine forest littoral vegetation on basaltic cliffs exposed to persistent southeasterly winds.
Shelly Beach, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, December 1971.Stunted ironbark grassy woodland.
From Desailly Range, Mt Carbine to Cooktown road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, September 1972.Stunted ironbark grassy woodland.
From Desailly Range, Mt Carbine to Cooktown road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, September 1972.Stunted ironbark grassy woodland.
From Desailly Range, Mt Carbine to Cooktown road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Stunted paper-bark forest (Melaleuca viridiflora) with Casuarina littoralis, Acacia flavescens, Xanthorrhoea sp.
Tully to Mission Beach road, Queensland, 1965?.Stunted paper-bark forest (Melaleuca viridiflora) with termite mounds.
Laura to Coen road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Submontane/"warm temperate" rainforest (simple notophyll vine-fern forest) on mesotrophic brown earth from schists, altitude ca. 750 metres.
Box Mountain, Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, July 1955.Subtropical rainforest (complex notophyll vine forest) on basalt in protected valley.
Minnamurra Falls Reserve near Kiama, New South Wales, August 1955.Tall Paper-bark forest (Melaleuca leucadendra) on river bank.
Bloomfield River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, July 1962.Tall grassy open forest (Eucalyptus miniata) on lateritic gravel.
30 kilometres south of Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Tall grassy open woodland with box (Eucalyptus polycarpa) and beef wood (Grevillea striata), stunted paper-bark (Melaleuca viridiflora) on solodic clayey soils.
South of Staaten River, near Macaroni Station, Queensland, May 1970.Tall riverine semideciduous mesophyll vine forest along Claudie River.
Claudie River near Ralph Dodson's hut, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1956.Tall wet sclerophyll forest adjacent to simple notophyll vine-fern forest ("warm temperate" rainforest).
West of Kempsey, New South Wales, February 1965.Tall wet sclerophyll forest adjacent to simple notophyll vine-fern forest ("warm temperate" rainforest).
West of Kempsey, New South Wales, February 1965.Transitional complex microphyll-notophyll vine-fern forest (cool subtropical rainforest) on basalt.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, 1956.Tree savanna with scrub patches (Dolichandrone) on brown self-mulching clays.
Mount Surprise, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1970.Tropical "vine scrub" (deciduous microphyll vine thicket) surviving on fire-proof granodiorite outcrops.
West of Bruch Highway near Bowen, Queensland, November 1965.Tropical lowland rainforest with broken canopy as result of cyclones as well as logging.
North of Mt Findlay, looking east to Cedar Bay north of Bloomfield River, Queensland, June 1969.Tropical monsoon forest (Deciduous Vine Thicket), close-up of three emergent tree species ca. 12 metres high: Sterculia quadrifida, Gyrocarpus americanus, Brachychiton paradoxum, above understorey 4-6 metres.
Coliander Hill, east of Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Tropical wet lowland rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest) on basaltic krasnozem, regularly disturbed by cyclones as a natural ecological factor, and now human impacts.
Clump Point - Mission Beach, Queensland, July 1962.Tuart woodland with Banksia.
Southwest province, Western Australia, 1958.Typical broken canopy of cyclone-damaged lowland rainforest on coastal hills.
Clump Mt. near El Arish, Queensland, May 1970.Typical many-layered complex notophyll vine forest (moist-wet subtropical rainforest) with variety of life forms, plus regeneration on floor.
Whian Whian State Forest near Lismore, New South Wales, ca. 1960.Upland cloudy wet rainforest on basaltic soils of high fertility (complex mesophyll vine forest).
Cannabullen near Palmerston Highway, Queensland, 1960s.Upland microphyll vine-fern forest along mountain creek.
Mt Carbine range west of Mossman, Queensland, September 1972.Vine thicket 4-6 metres with emergents to 12 metres.
Near Beatrice Hill, Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Vine thicket on fire-proof bouldery site at edge of crater.
Kinrara, southeast of Mt. Garnet, Queensland, May 1970.Warm temperate cool subtropical rainforest (notophyll vine forest) disturbed and weed-overgrown remnant on basaltic soils.
Near Kiama, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Warm temperate cool subtropical rainforest (notophyll vine forest) disturbed and weed-overgrown remnant on basaltic soils.
Near Kiama, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Warm temperate cool subtropical rainforest (notophyll vine forest) disturbed and weed-overgrown remnant on basaltic soils.
Near Kiama, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Warm temperate rainforest (simple notophyll vine fern forest) on basaltic kraznozem.
Near Robertson township, Robertson Plateau, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Vegetation Types -- "Brigalow Scrub" Regrowth
Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla).
Clermont-Sarina Road, Queensland, Nov. 1963.Vegetation Types -- "Cyclone Scrub"
Close aerial view of "cyclone scrub", i.e. very broken-canopied lowland rainforest.
Near Harvey's Creek, Queensland, June 1976.Vegetation Types -- Bellenden Ker Transect Series
Slide 1: Approaching base of cableway (TV installation) up Bellenden Ker Range.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, June 1976.Slide 2: Very wet (perhumid) tropical lowland rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest) (Type 1a).
Near first pylon of cableway up Mt Bellenden Ker, near Harvey Creek, Babinda, Queensland, June 1976.Slide 3: Higher up foothill slope. Broken canopy with many emergent trees, vines in gaps.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, June 1976.Slide 4: Foothill rainforest on granitic soil, moderate slope. Mesophyll vine forest (Type 2a).
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, June 1976.Slide 5: Higher up, steeper slope, smaller leaf-sizes in smoothed undulating canopy, Type 8.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, June 1976.Slide 6: Close-up of canopy near a ridge top, more stunted trees.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, June 1976.Slide 7: Higher up towards summit cloudy wet habitat.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, June 1976.Slide 8: Edge of clearing for TV installation, profile of stunted microphyll vine-fern thicket (Type 10) with remnant Leptospermum wooroonooran on summit.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, September 1972.Slide 8b: View of summit Type 10 looking towards TV installation.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, September 1972.Slide 9: Profile of thicket.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, September 1972.Vegetation Types -- Boundary
Abrupt vegetation change on the Cooktown to Bloomfield road.
Cooktown to Bloomfield road, Queensland, July 1962.Dynamic edge (ecotone) of mixed sclerophyll forest and rainforest community in frequently burnt area.
Perimeter road, Tinaroo Dam near Yungaburra, Queensland, December 1962.Vegetation Types -- Closed Paperbark Forest
Paperbark (Melaleuca quinquinervia).
South of Daintree River, Queensland, Nov. 1965.Vegetation Types -- Disturbed "Brigalow"
Remnant Brigalow.
South of Rolleston, Queensland, Nov. 1963.Vegetation Types -- Disturbed Low Closed Woodland -- Cape York Peninsula
Patch dominated by Lady Apple (Syzygium suborbicularis).
Aurukun, south of Archer River, Queensland, October 1962.Vegetation Types -- Forest (Open)
Open forest (Eucalyptus eugenioides and E. sieberiana).
Noorimbee, East Gippsland, Victoria, 1955.Open forest (Eucalyptus goniocalyx, E. maidenii).
East Gippsland, Victoria, 1955.Vegetation Types -- Forest (Tall Open)
Tall open forest (Eucalyptus bicostata).
Cape Otway Rd. , Victoria, Late 1970s.Vegetation Types -- Gidgee Scrub (Disturbed)
Gidgee (Acacia cambagei).
South of Barcaldine, Queensland, Late 1950s.Vegetation Types -- Grassy Woodland
Mixed stand of bloodwood (Eucalyptus intermedia).
Coastal area, Queensland, 1959.Vegetation Types -- Grassy Woodland -- Cape York Peninsula
Mainly Poplar or Cabbage Gum (Eucalyptus platyphylla).
Near Cooktown, Queensland, 1959.Vegetation Types -- Layered Eucalypt Open Woodland ("Tree Savanna")
Low open layered woodland.
Leura-Coen Road, Queensland, Oct. 1962.Vegetation Types -- Layered Open Forest
Cool temperate wet sclerophyll forest.
Barrington Tops area, New South Wales, 1960s.Vegetation Types -- Layered Tall Forest
Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor), Marri (Eucalyptus calophylla).
Pemberton area, Western Australia, 1958.Karri forest (Eucalyptus diversicolor). Compare with the "wet sclerophyll forest" of eastern Australia, which is more diverse.
Pemberton area, Western Australia, 1958.Karri forest (Eucalyptus diversicolor). Compare with the "wet sclerophyll forest" of eastern Australia, which is more diverse.
Pemberton area, Western Australia, 1958.Karri forest (Eucalyptus diversicolor). Compare with the "wet sclerophyll forest" of eastern Australia, which is more diverse.
Pemberton area, Western Australia, 1958.Karri forest (Eucalyptus diversicolor). Compare with the "wet sclerophyll forest" of eastern Australia, which is more diverse.
Pemberton area, Western Australia, 1958.Karri forest (Eucalyptus diversicolor). Compare with the "wet sclerophyll forest" of eastern Australia, which is more diverse.
Pemberton area, Western Australia, 1958.Old growth or virgin stand of karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor).
Pemberton area, Southwest province, Western Australia, November 1973.Old growth or virgin stand of karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor).
Pemberton area, Southwest province ("Collins Block"), Western Australia, November 1973.Vegetation Types -- Layered Tropical Palm-Eucalypt Woodland -- Fire
Tropical layered palm-eucalypt woodland, intermittently burnt.
North of Silver Plains, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Vegetation Types -- Layered Woodland -- Cape York Peninsula
Prominent understorey palm (Livistona muelleri).
Silver Plains, Queensland, Early 1960s.Typical sclerophyll vegetation of deep sands.
North of Silver Plains, Queensland, 1969.Understorey dominated by palms (Livistona muelleri).
Silver Plains, Queensland, 1969.Vegetation Types -- Low Heath (Aboriginal Name is "Wallum")
Wallum heath.
Coolum, Queensland, June 1980.Vegetation Types -- Mangroves
Low tide in tropical mangrove swamp.
Missionary Bay, Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland, August 1972.Vegetation Types -- Rainforest (Cool Temperate Riverine)
Cool temperate riverine rainforest remnant.
Warragul-Noojee Rd. , Victoria, 1955.Vegetation Types -- Rainforest (Cool Temperate)
Cool temperate rainforest.
Florentine River Valley, Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest.
Styx River, Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest.
Near St. Valentine's Peak, Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest.
Styx River, Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest.
Hell's Gate, Lyell Highway, Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest.
Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, Feb. 1957.Cool temperate rainforest.
Renison Bell on Rosebery Rd. , Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest.
Hellyer River, Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest (typical fern gully).
Locality uncertain, Victoria, 1978.Cool temperate rainforest with emergent Mountain Ash.
Florentine Valley Rd. , Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest with emergent Mountain Ash.
Styx River, Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest with emergent eucalypts.
Florentine Valley, Tasmania, 1957.Cool temperate rainforest with emergent eucalypts.
Styx River, Tasmania, 1957.Wet Sclerophyll Forest.
Florentine Valley, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Rainforest (Marginal Subtropical)
Profile (cleared area).
Binna Burra Lodge, Queensland, 1959.Vegetation Types -- Rainforest (Subtropical Tall Moist)
Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) with "bee-hive" crowns above rainforest.
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Vegetation Types -- Rainforest (Temperate)
Temperate rainforest.
Upper Surprise Valley from Lyell Highway, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Rainforest (Tropical Lowland)
Aerial view of tropical lowland rainforest type dominated by Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi).
Near El Arish, Queensland, November 1965.Vegetation Types -- Rainforest (Warm Cool Temperate)
Warm cool temperate rainforest overlap.
East Gippsland, Victoria, 1978.Vegetation Types -- Recent Cyclone Damage
Dead leaves on coastal mountains soon after severe cyclone.
South of Cairns, Queensland, March 1956.Vegetation Types -- Recovery after Cyclone Damage
Recovery nine months after cyclone, of secondary tropical wet lowland rainforest on coastal hill slopes.
Whoopen Ck. north of Innisfail, Queensland, November 1956.Vegetation Types -- Savanna
Grassy open woodland (Eucalyptus tessellaris, E. confertiflora, E. polycarpa) on duplex soils (solodic), "bulldust" on surface.
Near Stirling north of Karumba, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, June 1970.Wandoo (Eucalyptus wandoo) woodland.
Southwest, Western Australia, 1958.Vegetation Types -- Savanna Woodland
Savanna woodland.
North of Melbourne, Victoria, 1955.Vegetation Types -- Sclerophyll Fern Forest
Sclerophyll fern forest.
East Gippsland, Victoria, 1955.Sclerophyll fern forest.
Storey's Creek, East Gippsland, Victoria, 1955.Sclerophyll fern forest.
Storey's Creek, East Gippsland, Victoria, 1955.Sclerophyll fern forest.
Mt. Drummer, East Gippsland, Victoria, 1955.Sclerophyll fern forest.
Locality uncertain, Victoria, Late 1970s.Sclerophyll fern forest.
Ada Creek, East Gippsland, Victoria, 1955.Sclerophyll fern forest (Mountain Ash, Eucalyptus regnans).
Wallaby Creek, Victoria, 1955.Tall sclerophyll fern forest (Mountain Ash, Eucalyptus regnans).
Ada Creek, Victoria, 1955.Vegetation Types -- Sclerophyll Fern Forest (Tall)
Tall sclerophyll fern forest with Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans).
Wallaby Creek, Victoria, 1955.Vegetation Types -- Simple Microphyll Evergreen Fern Forest
Simple Microphyll evergreen fern forest.
Bemm River, Victoria, 1955.Simple Microphyll evergreen fern forest.
Bemm River, Victoria, 1955.Vegetation Types -- Subalpine Grassland
Subalpine grassland with patches of eucalypt woodland.
Lyell Highway looking towards Mt. Rufus, Tasmania, 1957.Subalpine grassland with patches of eucalypt woodland.
Lyell Highway looking towards Mt. Rufus, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Subalpine Scrub
Subalpine scrub.
Near summit of Mt. Mawson, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Subalpine Stony Heath
Subalpine stony heath.
Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Subalpine Stunted Stony Scrub
Subalpine stunted stony scrub.
Upper slopes of Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, 1957.Subalpine stunted stony scrub.
Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Subalpine Stunted Stony Scrub and Boulders
Subalpine stunted stony scrub and boulders (roches moutonnees).
Below Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Subalpine Stunted Stony Scrub and Herb Field
Subalpine stunted stony scrub and herb field.
Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Subalpine Woodland
Subalpine woodland streamlined by wind on mountain summit.
Mt. Mawson, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Subtropical Dry "Bottle Tree scrub"
Remnant patch on stony (basaltic) hill.
Thangool, Queensland, ca. 1950.Vegetation Types -- Subtropical Subcoastal Queensland
Ironbark (Eucalyptus crebra) and Bloodwood (Eucalyptus dichromophloia(?)) over Themeda australis grassland.
Clermont to Charters Towers Road, Queensland, 1960s.Vegetation Types -- Swamps
Clump of sedge (Leperonia sp.) at edge of swamp.
Eubenangee near Innisfail, Queensland, August 1964.Vegetation Types -- Temperate Mountain Heath with Cushion Plants
Temperate mountain heath with Cushion Plants.
Lake Highway near Pine Lake, Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Temperate Scrub-woodland
Temperate scrub-woodland.
Tasmanian National Park(?), Tasmania, 1957.Temperate scrub-woodland.
Tasmanian National Park(?), Tasmania, 1957.Vegetation Types -- Tropical Dry Open Sclerophyll Shrubland
Tropical dry open shrubland on skeletal granitic soils.
Mt. Carbine to Tableland Road, Queensland, September 1972.Vegetation Types -- Tropical Dry Open Vine Thicket
Granite outcrop functions as "fire shadow" (refugium).
Near Bowen, Queensland, 1972.Vegetation Types -- Tropical Dry Open Vine Thicket
Granite outcrop functions as "fire shadow" (refugium).
Near Bowen, Queensland, Date uncertain.Vegetation Types -- Tropical Seasonal "Dry Rainforest"/Monsoon Forest Patch
Interior of tropical vine thicket ("turkey scrub").
Near Cooktown, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, September 1959.Vegetation Types -- Tropical Tree Savanna
Ironbark (Eucalyptus cullenii).
Byerstown Range, Cooktown Road, Queensland, Aug. 1962.Vegetation Types -- Tropical Wet-Dry Lowland Rainforest
Boundary with savanna.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.