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Plant Variety |
The area in this reserve where Tumbi Wetlands Bushcare works contains two separate regions which merge together without any distinct boundaries. |
Aquatic PlantsBack to list of Plant types
This area is an ephemeral wetland: sometimes it's wet and sometimes much of it is dry. |
Climbers and CreepersBack to list of Plant types
Most of these creepers and climbers are found in the areas which are regularly dried off and support heathy vegetation. |
GraminoidsBack to list of Plant types Graminoids are a diverse group of plants which are grass-like in that they grow in tussocks or are tuffed. They include grasses, sedges, and lilies among others, all monocotyledons. It is a grouping of plants used by Stephen Bell in his 2002 mapping of the area and used here for consistency with his work. |
GrassesBack to list of Plant types Unlike exotic grasses, most of the grasses here at Tumbi Wetlands grow in tufts or tussocks. Of all the species listed to the left, only Entolasia marginata (or Bordered Panic Grass) has the ability to run with rhizomes or stolons. | |
Ground FernsBack to list of Plant types As the oportunity arises, close-ups of the part of the fronds carrying the spore producing structures, will be included as an inset to the fern photos. While not quite a "fingerprint" for the species, it certainly helps in the identification of them.
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HerbsBack to list of Plant types Nine of these 24 species of herbs are either ground cover plants or ones that closely hug the ground but several are quite tall and the Matchheads bush can reach heights well over a metre. |
NB: A herb is any vascular plant that never produces a woody stem. |
Lilies, Irises and OrchidsBack to list of Plant types Most of these lilies flower regularly but of this list of orchids only 5 have flowered regularly, the three Greenhoods, the Large Tongue Orchid and the Brownbeaks. In the spring of 2006, all of them flowered following fire in the area in December 2005, but since then only the above mentioned 5 have been seen regularly. | |
Sedges and RushesBack to list of Plant types Gahnia clarkei aka Razor Grass, is clearly the the most abundant sedge in this area, but in some parts others become dominant. | For example in one gently sloping grassland Lepyrodia scariosais completely dominant. Some sedges e.g. Juncus holoschoenus likes to be wet but Carex fascicularis seems just as happy wet as dry, while Lepidosperma laterale grows in a place hardly ever inundated by water. There is a large amount of the exotic sedge Cyperus eragrostis but to date we have not attempted to start removing it. |
ShrubsBack to list of Plant types As explained above, the intersection of the two different ecological communities likely explains the large variety in the shrub population, 32 species listed. It is noticeable that some species are more abundant in one area than the other but there is a clear overlap between the two areas. | Note that a shrub is a woody plant less than 5 metres high, either without a distinct main axis, or with branches persisting on the main axis almost to its base. The smallest is the 30 cm high Pinnate Wedge Pea, while the Acacia longifolia reaches over 5 metres in some cases. What may bee seen as a shrub in the wetland may mature into a small tree. If you cannot find a particular shrub in this list try the list of SmallTrees following. |
TreesBack to list of Plant types While the canopy consists mostly of the 3 trees listed below, there are a number of quite large trees with lower occurrence frequency. | |
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