Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:More references Template:Infobox Australian place Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) is a national park in Queensland, Australia. It is 1,602 km northwest of Brisbane. The national park was previously named Mount Webb National Park until it was renamed on 28 November 2013.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Vegetation

The national park 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.<ref name="DES">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=“CYP”>Template:Cite web</ref>

Rainforest communities located within the national park include:

• Deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing on alluvial soils.<ref name="DES"/>

• Semi-deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing on floodplains. <ref name="DES"/>

• Semi-deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing upon structured red earth soils derived from Basalt.<ref name=“CYP”/>

• Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on structured red earth soils derived from basalt in a shallow valley.<ref name=“CYP”/>

• Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on exposed metamorphic and granitic slopes.<ref name="DES"/>

An additional threatened ecosystem located within the national park is a sclerophyll woodland dominated by Eucalyptus leptophleba, Corymbia tessellaris and Corymbia clarksoniana which has developed upon soils formed from basalt flows. <ref name="DES"/>

See also

• Protected areas of Queensland