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Statement concerning the property of "Tallwood Lodge", Nyora and 90 acres of forested land to the north / J.H. Willis.

By:

Willis, J.H., (James Hamlyn), 1910-1995

Contributor(s):

Henry, Gordon

Material type: Text

Text[Place of publication not identified] : J.H. Willis, [1990]Description: 1 numbered leaf, 1 unnumbered leaf, 16 pages : 30 cmSubject(s):

DDC classification:

581.994 STA

Summary: This area has high conservational value, in being the largest surviving example of tall forest which originally covered the whole Bass River watershed - now almost completely converted to open farmland. Although slightly damaged by past bushfires, an altered moisture regime, weed invasion (notably ragwort, thistles and cleavers), and incursions by stock at various points, the forest still contains at least 105 indigenous species of vascular plants, not to mention many concomitant species of mosses and higher fungi; thirteen kinds of ferns and flowering plants are now local rarities. Several distinct communities are apparent : dominant, open stringybark-peppermint forest, with understory of shrubs (including wattles, hazel, currant-bush and much snowy daisy-bush), wire grass, bracken and ground herbs; a few fern gullies, once more luxuriant; some permanent dams and pondages, fringed with reeds and other water plants; a small area of sandy heath under stunted peppermint eucalypts at the S.W. corner - an intrusion of typical Western Port heathland, but poor in species (smooth parrot-pea and broom spurge are quite rare hereabouts).Summary: Dicotyledons -- Ferns -- Fungi: basidiomycetes, agaricoid, boletoid, clavarioid, discoid, gasteroid, hydnoid, merulioid, polyporoid, stereoid, tremelloid, ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, discomycetes, myxomycetes -- Hepatics -- Monocotyledons -- Mosses -- Orchidaceae -- Poaceae.

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 5 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Pamphlet	State Botanical Collection	RBG	PAM 581.994 STA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		RBG00027139

Unpublished handwritten report (photocopy).

Includes detailed flora of the property recorded 20-22 July 1990 and 22-24 June 1992.

This area has high conservational value, in being the largest surviving example of tall forest which originally covered the whole Bass River watershed - now almost completely converted to open farmland. Although slightly damaged by past bushfires, an altered moisture regime, weed invasion (notably ragwort, thistles and cleavers), and incursions by stock at various points, the forest still contains at least 105 indigenous species of vascular plants, not to mention many concomitant species of mosses and higher fungi; thirteen kinds of ferns and flowering plants are now local rarities.

Several distinct communities are apparent : dominant, open stringybark-peppermint forest, with understory of shrubs (including wattles, hazel, currant-bush and much snowy daisy-bush), wire grass, bracken and ground herbs; a few fern gullies, once more luxuriant; some permanent dams and pondages, fringed with reeds and other water plants; a small area of sandy heath under stunted peppermint eucalypts at the S.W. corner - an intrusion of typical Western Port heathland, but poor in species (smooth parrot-pea and broom spurge are quite rare hereabouts).

Dicotyledons -- Ferns -- Fungi: basidiomycetes, agaricoid, boletoid, clavarioid, discoid, gasteroid, hydnoid, merulioid, polyporoid, stereoid, tremelloid, ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, discomycetes, myxomycetes -- Hepatics -- Monocotyledons -- Mosses -- Orchidaceae -- Poaceae.

Donated by Daniel Murphy, March 2024.