VEGETATION OF BUNTINE AND NUGADONG RESERVES

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Introduction: The Buntine and Nugadong Reserves lie almost at the junction of the Irwin and Avon districts of the South-Western Botanical Province and the Austin and Coolgardie district of the Eremaean Botanical Province (cf. Grieve and Blackall's (1975) modification of Gardner and Bennetts (1956) map).

Beard (1976) has mapped Buntine Reserve, the majority being called 'mixed Acacia thicket on sand plain'. A narrow belt along the central road from about loc. 2.12 to loc. 4.13 (see vegetation map this report) and the south-west corner around loc. 3.28 Beard calls 'Eucalyptus loxophleba sclerophyll woodland'. Climate, geology, physiography, soils and vegetation of the area immediately to the north of Buntine Reserve is discussed briefly in Beard (1976).

Vegetation descriptions are presented in Appendices 1, 3, 5 and 7 and shown on Figs 3 to 6. Species lists for selected locations are given in Appendices 2, 4, 6 and 8.