Mount Webb National Park

Mount Webb is a national park in Queensland, Australia. It is 1,602 km northwest of Brisbane.

Mount Webb National Park
Queensland
Mount Webb National Park
Nearest town or cityCooktown
Coordinates15°04′09″S 145°07′23″E
Established1973
Area4.17 km2 (1.6 sq mi)
Managing authoritiesQueensland Parks and Wildlife Service
See alsoProtected areas of Queensland

Vegetation

Mt. Webb features a number of unique and threatened ecosystems including rare examples of complex rainforest vegetation communities developed upon Basalt soils within the Cape York Peninsula bioregion.[1][2]

Rainforest communities located within Mt Webb National Park include:

  • Deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing on alluvial soils.[1]
  • Semi-deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing on floodplains. [1]
  • Semi-deciduous mesophy|I/notophyll vine forest growing upon structured red earth soils derived from Basalt.[2]
  • Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on structured red earth soils derived from basalt in a shallow valley.[2]
  • Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on exposed metamorphic and granitic slopes.[1]

An additional threatened ecosystem located within the Mt. Webb National Park is a sclerophyll woodland dominated by Eucalyptus leptophleba, Corymbia tessellaris and Corymbia clarksoniana which has developed upon soils formed from basalt flows. [1]

See also

References
  1. "Mount Webb National Park Management Statement 2013" (PDF). Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing. 2013 – via Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
  2. Stanton, J.P.; Fell, D.G. (27 April 1995). "The rainforests of Cape York Peninsula". Brisbane, Qld. : Dept. of Environment and Heritage. pp. 106, 107 – via National Library of Australia.


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