Glasshouse Mountains National Parks (1978 boundaries), Glasshouse Mountains Rd, Glass House Mountains, QLD | Photographs: |     | | List: | Register of the National Estate | | Class: | Natural | | Legal Status: | Registered (21/10/1980) | | Place ID: | 8708 | | Place File No: | 4/01/089/0003 | | Statement of Significance: | | The varied shapes and forms of the Glasshouse Mountains are an outstanding geological, aesthetic and recreational feature of the Moreton region. They are particularly important for understanding the geology of the region. The national parks contain a series of plant communities, including coastal communities, such as EUCALYPTUS SIGNATA open forest, which have been extensively cleared in the Moreton coast or are poorly represented in national parks. The habitats included in the parks include rainforest, eucalypt forest, heath and wallum vegetation, and are representative of the flora of rocky peaks within south-east Queensland. A number of new plant species have been discovered on the peaks. Several endemic species, a number of rare and threatened plants and a shrub widespread in Victoria and New South Wales and at its most northerly distribution, have been recorded from the parks. Small areas of low open shrubland contain the most southerly occurrence (by several hundred kilometres) of the rare resurrectum grass (MICRAIRA SUBTIFOLIA). Mount Beerwah has a high number of rare and/or threatened species, including: BANKSIA CONFERTA, CAUSTIS FLEXUOSA, DODONAEA MULTIJUGA, ERIOSTEMON MYOPOROIDES ssp. LEICHHARDTII, EUCALYPTUS sp. Mount Beerwah, LEPTOSPERMUM LEUHMANNII, L. OREOPHILUM, L. MICROCARPUM, LEUCOPOGON RUPICOLA, LOMANDRA CONFERTIFOLIA, MELALEUCA GROVEANA, MICRARIA SUBULIFOLIA, TETRARIA CAPILLARIS and WESTRINGIA GRANDIFLORA. The rare species ARUNDINELLA MONTANA has been recorded from ngungun and beerwah. The vulnerable species MELALEUCA GROVEANA has also been recorded from this area. ALLOCASUARINA FILIDENS (glasshouse mountains casuarina) is confined to the upper slopes of Mount Beerwah and Mount Tibrogargan. Mount Coochin supports rare species including E. CURTISII, LEUCOPOGON RECURISEPALUS, KERAUDRENIA HILLII, and PROSTANTHERA PHYLICIFOLIA. Two of the southern peaks (Saddleback and Wild Horse Mountain) support the rare and endemic DODONAEA RUPICOLA. Mount Tiberooconccum has a small population of DAVIESIA MIMOSOIDES on the southern slope. This shrub is widespread in Victoria and New South Wales, but rare in Queensland, and the Tiberooconccum population is the most northerly known. The butterfly ACRODIPSAS BRISBANENSIS BRISBANENSIS (the large ant, blue), a species for which monitorinng is required, has been recorded at Mount Tibrogargan. The grey falcon, which is listed as rare in Queensland, occurs within the parks. | | Official Values: Not Available | | Description: | | The Glasshouse Mountains include the five peaks of Tibrogargan, Ngungun, Coonowrin and Beerwa National Parks, ranging from 236m-556m. These remnant volcanic (rhyolite and trachyte) plugs rising sharply above the surrounding landscape offer a striking landscape feature in the sub coastal lowlands. The habitats included in the parks include rainforest, eucalypt forest, heath and wallum vegetation. An open forest containing EUCALYPTUS PILULARIS covers seventy five percent of Mount Ngungun (NP 127). The remainder of the area is low open forest dominated by E.INTERMEDIA. The lower slopes of Mount Tibrogargan (NP 233) are covered by an open forest alliance containing E.INTERMEDIA and E. SIGNATA. Where there has been development of a soil profile on Mount Coonowrin (NP 749) and Mount Beerwah (NP 750), a mixed eucalyptus open forest occurs, and supports E. INTERMEDIA, E. TRACHYPHLOIA, E. SIGNATA and LOPHOSTEMON CONFERTUS. Much of the peak of Mount Beerwah is covered by heathy vegetation, often with mallee forms of EUCALYPTUS TRACHYPHLOIA and E. Sp. Mount Beerwah. E. SIGNATA trees are found in the more sheltered sites. Under the cliffs on the northern side, an area of wet sclerophyll forest occurs, dominated by SYNCARPIA GLOMULIFERA and LOPHOSTEMON CONFERTUS. In protected wetter gullies, small stands of notophyll vine forest have developed, often with the palm ARCHONTOPHOENIX CUNNINGHAMIANA. Two peaks have true rainforest on them, namely Mount Beerburrum and Mount Tiberoocouccum. The area is not extensive on either peak, but some interesting species such as CINNAMOMUM OLIVERI and CALLICARPA PEDUNCULATA are present. The twins (Mount Tunbubudla) are mostly clothed in dry sclerophyll forest, with E. TRACHYPHLOIA, E. CARNEA, E. RESINIFERA and E. Sp. Mount Tibrogargan, but there are areas of exposed rock where LEPTOSPERMUM LUEHMANNII dominates. Seventy eight bird species have been recorded in and about this locality. The butterfly ACRODIPSAS BRISBANENSIS BRISBANENSIS, the large ant blue has been recorded at Mount Tibrogargan. Koalas have been observed on Mount Ngungun. | | History: Not Available | | Condition and Integrity: | | The parks are in largely natural condition, however their small size and isolation reduces their integrity. The area is subject to some recreational pressures. | | Location: | | About 700ha, Glasshouse Mountains Roud, 2km west of Glass House Mountains township and 3km north-north-west of Beerburrum, comprising the following four areas: Tibrogargan (291ha), Ngungun (49ha), Coonowrin (113ha), and Beerwah (245ha) National Parks (1978 boundaries). | | Bibliography: | DWYER P., HOCKINGS M. AND WILLMER J. (1979). MAMMALS OF COOLOOLA
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