Mackenzie Basin, between Dry Stream and Gladstone Stream
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-44.152 170.027
Verbatim locality:
Mackenzie Basin, terrace between Dry Stream and Gladstone Stream
Verbatim collector:
Richard Ewans
Standardised collector:
R. Ewans
Verbatim date:
22 Jan 2018
Start date:
2018-01-22
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1362244E 5106970N (WGS84 -44.151776 170.026948)
Altitudes:
from 740m
Habitat:
Red tussock grassland margin with stony herbfield on montane alluvial or outwash terrace surface. Scattered plants in patches on mud surface among stony ground where water runs off the slope. Other plants present include Centrolepis pallida, Stackhousia minima [CHR 646027] and Viola sp.; Hypericum rubicundulum was found nearby.
Notes:
Unusual and very uncommon plant community, only found in one place where water runs off slope from a dry bog pine patch with stony herbfield into a red tussock grassland.
Observed species:
Centrolepis pallida Stackhousia minima Viola sp. Hypericum rubicundulum