Bay of Plenty, Te Puke, Lower Kaituna Wildlife Management Reserve
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-37.7557 176.376
Verbatim locality:
Bay of Plenty, near Te Puke, Kaituna wetland.
Verbatim collector:
K.A. Ford 1075/22
Standardised collector:
Kerry A. Ford
Collectors reference no.:
1075/22
Verbatim date:
2 Oct 2022
Start date:
2022-10-02
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
South Auckland Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Te Rangi
Ngāti Pikiao
Ngāti Pūkenga
Ngāti Rangiteaorere
Ngāti Rangiwewehi
Tapuika
Te Ure o Uenukukōpako / Ngāti Whakaue
Waitaha
Georeferences:
New Zealand Transverse Mercator:
1897501.4E 5815873.1N (WGS84 -37.756101 176.376854)
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-37.75610900 176.37685400
Abundance:
Common
Altitudes:
from 7m
Habitat:
In very wet ground, edge of swamp.
Abundance:
Common
Notes:
Large clump; leaves & culm erect; culms trigonous; leaf-sheaths reddish-brown; leaf-bades W-folded with a prominant keel; Only a few of last seasons inflorescences still shedding fruit which are grey in colour now, and no sign of new flowers at all. Forming dense clumpy thickets; the inflorescences at maturity drop to the water where the utricles float off forming dense masses on the surface of the water.