The Swan Coastal Plain Shrublands and Woodlands is a

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-woodland

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that stretch from Kalbarri in the north to

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in the south, passing through

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, in

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. Situated on the

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, it is listed as Endangered under the

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.SHRUBLANDS AND WOODLANDS ON PERTH TO GINGIN IRONSTONE RECOVERY PLAN

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The woodlands also incorporate ''Perth–Gingin Shrublands and Woodlands''.

Geography

The community sits on poorly drained plains with greyish sandy benches and disjunctive swamps, in addition to areas that lie on bog

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marl Marl is an earthy material rich in carbonate minerals, clays, and silt. When hardened into rock, this becomes marlstone. It is formed in marine or freshwater environments, often through the activities of algae. Marl makes up the lower part o ...

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soils, and as well as heavy clay soils.The Perth–Gingin Shrublands and Woodlands are located on inundated

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and heavy clay soils. The community occurs at parts near Kalbarri,

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, Eneabba, the Perth area, at Gingin and

and in the

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area, even though 97% of it is cleared.

Ecology

Native species include shrubs and small trees such as

Melaleuca viminea ''Melaleuca viminea'', commonly known as mohan is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is variable in size and form from a densely branched, small shrub to a small tree. It has become n ...

Grevillea curviloba ''Grevillea curviloba'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to erect shrub with short branchlets, divided leaves with linear to narrowly lance-shaped l ...

Kunzea recurva ''Kunzea recurva'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an uncommon shrub with small leaves and groups of pink or purplish flowers on the ends of the branches. Description ''Kunzea rec ...

Grevillea evanescens ''Grevillea evanescens'' is an endangered species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with oblong to elliptic leaves and clusters of pale to bright r ...

, Dryandra sessilis,

Acacia saligna ''Acacia saligna'', commonly known by various names including coojong, golden wreath wattle, orange wattle, blue-leafed wattle, Western Australian golden wattle, and, in Africa, Port Jackson willow, is a small tree in the family (biology), fami ...

Jacksonia furcellata ''Jacksonia furcellata'', commonly known as grey stinkwood, is a species of leafless broom-like shrub or small tree in the family, Fabaceae, that occurs in the south west of Western Australia. One of the most common plants of the Swan Coastal P ...

, with

Rhodanthe ''Rhodanthe'', also known as sunray or pink paper daisy, is a genus of Australian plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae. The name ''Rhodanthe'' is derived from Greek ''rhodon'', rose and ''anthos'', flower. Many ''Rhodan ...

spp, being in the understorey, and the herbs

Rhodanthe manglesii ''Rhodanthe manglesii'' is a herbaceous plant, a native of Western Australia, that was introduced and cultivated in England in 1834 from seeds collected by James Mangles. Common names for this daisy include pink sunray, silver bells, Australian ...

and Tribonanthes australis. Other species in the community include

Banksia attenuata ''Banksia attenuata'', commonly known as the candlestick banksia, slender banksia, or biara to the Noongar people, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae. Commonly a tree, it reaches high, but it is often a shrub in drier areas high. I ...

Banksia menziesii ''Banksia menziesii'', commonly known as firewood banksia, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Banksia''. It is a gnarled tree up to tall, or a lower spreading shrub in the more northern parts of its range. The serrated leaves ar ...

, sometimes with

Allocasuarina fraseriana ''Allocasuarina fraseriana'', commonly known as western sheoak, common sheoak, WA sheoak. Fraser's sheoak or just sheoak, is a tree in the family Casuarinaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs near the coast in the south west corner o ...

with a shrub layer that may include Adenanthos cygnorum, Hibbertia huegelii, Scaevola repens,

Allocasuarina humilis ''Allocasuarina humilis'', commonly known as the dwarf sheoak or dwarf casuarina, is a woody shrub of the family Casuarinaceae endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Description Unlike many sheoaks which grow into trees, ''Allocasuarin ...

, Bossiaea eriocarpa,

Hibbertia hypericoides ''Hibbertia hypericoides'', commonly known as yellow buttercups, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is usually a spreading shrub with linear to elliptic or egg-sha ...

and

Stirlingia latifolia ''Stirlingia latifolia'', commonly known as blueboy, is a plant endemic to Western Australia. Description It grows as an erect shrub from 20 centimetres to 1.5 metres high, consisting of numerous stems up to 70 centimetres long, emerging from a ...

. Herbs and forbs include Conostylis aurea,

Burchardia congesta ''Burchardia congesta'' is a perennial herb in the family Colchicaceae, and is native to Western Australia. Taxonomy ''Burchardia congesta'' was first described by John Lindley in 1840. The name has not been revised, and there are no synonym ...

and Patersonia occidentalis.Shrublands and woodlands of the eastern side of the Swan Coastal Plain (floristic community type 20c as originally described in Gibson et al. (1994)

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References

{{reflist Endangered ecological communities Remnant urban bushland Vegetation of Australia Ecoregions of Western Australia Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands Sclerophyll forests Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub