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Mount Webb is a national park in Queensland, Australia. It is 1,602 km northwest of Brisbane.

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Mount Webb National Park Queensland
IUCN category II (national park)
Mount Webb National Park
Nearest town or city	Cooktown
Coordinates	15°04′09″S 145°07′23″E
Established	1973
Area	4.17 km2 (1.6 sq mi)
Managing authorities	Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
See also	Protected areas of Queensland

Vegetation

Mt. Webb features a number of unique and threatened ecosystems including rare examples of complex rainforest vegetation communities developed upon Basalt soils within the Cape York Peninsula bioregion.[1][2]

Rainforest communities located within Mt Webb National Park include:

• Deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing on alluvial soils.[1]

• Semi-deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing on floodplains. [1]

• Semi-deciduous mesophy|I/notophyll vine forest growing upon structured red earth soils derived from Basalt.[2]

• Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on structured red earth soils derived from basalt in a shallow valley.[2]

• Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on exposed metamorphic and granitic slopes.[1]

An additional threatened ecosystem located within the Mt. Webb National Park is a sclerophyll woodland dominated by Eucalyptus leptophleba, Corymbia tessellaris and Corymbia clarksoniana which has developed upon soils formed from basalt flows. [1]

See also

• Protected areas of Queensland

References

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