Bibliography of Plant Checklists and Vegetation Survey Data for Wellington Conservancy (Excluding Chatham Islands)
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Bibliography of plant checklists and vegetation survey data for Wellington Conservancy (excluding Chatham Islands) 2ND EDITION, JUNE 2001 Bibliography of plant checklists and vegetation survey data for Wellington Conservancy (excluding Chatham Islands) 2nd edition, June 2001 Prepared by John Sawyer Published by: Department of Conservation P. O. Box 5086 Wellington NEW ZEALAND This bibliography of checklists was prepared by John Sawyer, Wellington Conservancy, Department of Conservation. It was edited by Barbara Mitcalfe, Chris Horne and Pat Enright of the Wellington Botanical Society. First published 1998 as A bibliography of plant checklists and vegetation survey data sets for areas in Wellington Conservancy (excluding Chatham Islands). ISBN: 0-478-22044-8 © 2001 Department of Conservation CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 1. Introduction 2 2. How to compile a plant checklist 7 3. Checklists and survey data 8 3.1 General 8 3.2 Wellington Ecological District 8 Wellington Botanic Garden 8 Wellington City – Khandallah 9 Wellington City – Otari/Wilton’s Bush 9 Wellington – western hills and coast 9 Wellington City – Miramar peninsula 12 Wellington City – Ngaio 13 Wellington City – Karori 13 Wellington City – general 14 Matiu/Somes Island 15 Mokopuna (Leper) Island 15 Makaro (Ward) Island 16 Ngauranga Escarpment 16 Porirua City 16 Colonial Knob 17 Pauatahanui Inlet and catchment 17 Tawa 19 Plimmerton and Taupo Swamp 19 Titahi Bay (including Whitireia Park) 20 Pukerua Bay 21 Hutt Valley and surrounding hills 23 Belmont Regional Park and adjacent areas 24 Paekakariki 25 Papakowhai 25 3.3 Cook Strait Ecological District 25 Kapiti Island 25 Mana Island 27 Kaumanga (Green) Point 27 Makara 27 Pipinui 28 Wellington south coast (Red Rocks, Sinclair Head, Taputeranga Island) 28 3.4 Tararua Ecological District 29 Rimutaka Range – general 29 Rimutaka Forest Park 30 Orongorongo 30 Butterfly Creek 30 Eastbourne Hills (excluding Butterfly Creek) 31 Lowry Bay 31 Wainuiomata 32 Mukamuka 32 Mount Matthews 32 South Rimutaka Coast – general 32 Lake Kohangapiripiri and Lake Kohangatera 33 Fitzroy Bay 34 Baring Head to Turakirae 35 Akatarawa and Western Hutt Hills 35 Maungakotukutuku Valley 36 Kaitawa and Mangaone 36 Pukeatua 37 Eastern Hutt Hills 37 Haywards 38 Pakuratahi 38 Kaitoke 39 Eastern Rimutaka Range 40 Lake Pounui 40 Tararua Range – general 40 Tararua Forest Park 41 Mount Reeves 42 Mount Holdsworth 42 Blue Range 42 Mount Kaiparoro 42 Paraparaumu hills 42 Raumati Escarpment 44 3.5 Foxton Ecological District 44 Foxton – general 44 Hokio 44 Papaitonga 45 Horowhenua 46 Ohau 46 Otaki 46 Pekapeka 47 Waikanae 47 Queen Elizabeth Park 48 3.6 Manawatu Plains Ecological District 49 Manawatu Plains – general 49 Waikanae 49 Otaki 49 Koputaroa 50 Levin 51 3.7 Manawatu Gorge South Ecological District 51 Manawatu Gorge South – general 51 Makahika Scientific Reserve 51 Kohitere 51 3.8 Eastern Wairarapa Ecological District 52 Eastern Wairarapa – general 52 Southern Eastern Wairarapa – Tora, Makara, White Rock 52 Pahaoa 53 Riversdale and Uruti 54 Kaiwhata 54 Tauweru 54 Whangaehu River Valley 54 Kourarau Valley 55 Maungaraki Range 55 Wainuioru 56 Mount Rewa (Rewa Bush Stewardship) and Mount Meridith 57 Taipos (including Rocky Hills Sanctuary Area) 57 Tinui 58 Tiraumea 58 Castlepoint and Mount Percy 58 Pongaroa 58 3.9 Aorangi Ecological District 59 Aorangi Forest 59 Putangirua 59 Cape Palliser 59 3.10 Wairarapa Plains Ecological District 60 Wairarapa Plains – general 60 Lake Wairarapa 60 Lake Onoke and Pounui Lagoon 62 Western Lake Reserve 62 Featherston and environs 63 Carter Scenic Reserve 63 Fensham Reserve (Belvedere Road Bush) 64 Northern Plains – general 64 Masterton 64 Greytown, Gladstone and Carterton 65 Southern Plains – general 67 3.11 Eastern Hawke’s Bay Ecological District 68 Eastern Hawke’s Bay – general 68 3.12 Woodville Ecological District 68 Woodville – general 68 Haukopua 68 Mangahao River 68 Kaiparoro 68 Pahiatua 68 Eketahuna 69 Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre 69 3.13 Puketoi Ecological District 69 Puketoi – general 69 Waewaepa 69 Puketoi 70 Alfredton 70 Makuri 70 Ohinereiata 71 Pipinui 71 Kopuaranga 71 Mount Bruce 71 4. Acknowledgements 72 5. References 72 Appendix 1 Authors and author combinations that have compiled plant checklists and vegetation data for Wellington Conservancy lower North Island New Zealand 73 Map 1 The location and extent of Wellington Conservancy of the Department of Conservation. 2 Map 2 Distribution of checklists in Wellington Conservancy facing 2 Table 1 The Ecological Districts of Wellington Conservancy lower North Island New Zealand, and the number of plant checklists and vegetation data sets compiled for each district 3 ExecutiveSummary Thisreportisabibliographyofmorethan800plantchecklistsandvegetation surveysheldbytheDepartmentofConservationforareasinWellington Conservancy. Checklistsandsurveydataareasourceofinformationaboutplantdistributionsand haveavarietyofapplicationstotheprotectionofbiologicaldiversity. TheDepartmentofConservationholdsthisdatabaseofinformationinWellington (P.O.Box5086,Wellington).Copiesoftheplantchecklistshavealsobeen depositedatthefollowingplaces: • BotanyDepartment,AucklandInstituteandMuseum,Auckland; • herbarium,MuseumofNewZealandTePapaTongarewa(WELT),Wellington; • library,LandcareResearch,Lincoln;and • herbariumkeeper,SchoolofBiologicalSciences,VictoriaUniversityof Wellington(WELTU). 1 1. Introduction InsixyearstheDepartmentofConservationhasgatheredover800plantchecklists forareasintheWellingtonConservancy(Map1).Vegetationsurveys,suchasthose compiledfortheProtectedNaturalAreasProgramme,havealsobeencollated.This documentprovidesareferencetoallthosesourcesofinformationaboutplant biogeographyinWellingtonConservancy(excludingtheChathamIslands).This reportisanupdatedversionofapreviousbibliography(Sawyer1998)and complementsaplantchecklistbibliographyfortheChathamIslands(Sawyer2000). Sincethatfirsteditionin1998over300plantlistshavebeenaddedtothedatabase. ThelistsandsurveydatahavebeenarrangedbyEcologicalDistrict,andforeach Map1:Thelocationandextent districtthelistshavebeensortedbyprincipalgeographicalarea(Table1).The ofWellingtonConservancyof distributionofchecklistsinWellingtonConservancyisshowninMap2. theDepartmentofConservation. MANAWATU GORGE MANAWATU EASTERN HAWKE'S BAY l e i l i v t o d e ns o Pahiatua k o u u h P Plai t t W a u w o a S n a e M r g PAHIATUA o Levin G n o u t t x a o w A F a P n a A e M g R n A a R R I A W Kapiti I a R u r a S a Paraparaumu r N N m I a a A Castle Point R e T U A E r R L T a P A h R Masterton S A Carterton A W T E Mana I Greytown A P A R A R R I u Porirua Featherston A r o Upper W i Cook n u o Hutt Strait t n g i e Lake a i n Lower g l l n Wairarapa Martinborough W e Hutt a Flat Point W R a R Wellington k ga a an t h u a m m i a u R Lake R N Onoke I G Palliser N Bay A R O A Ecological region Cape Palliser Ecological district Conservancy 01020 30 40 50km boundary 2 TABLE1:THEECOLOGICALDISTRICTSOFWELLINGTONCONSERVANCY,LOWER NORTHISLAND,NEWZEALAND,ANDTHENUMBEROFPLANTCHECKLISTSAND VEGETATIONDATASETSCOMPILEDFOREACHDISTRICT ECOLOGICALDISTRICT NUMBEROFCHECKLISTS ANDVEGETATIONDATASETS General 11 Wellington 237 CookStrait 55 Tararua 209 Foxton 53 ManawatuPlains 27 ManawatuGorgeSouth 9 EasternWairarapa 92 Aorangi 15 WairarapaPlains 99 EasternHawkesBay 4 Woodville 13 Puketoi 18 Totalnumberofchecklistsanddatasets 831 Checklistsfornon-vascularplantsarealsoincluded.Appendix1isalistofall authorsandauthorcombinations(176)forreferencesinthisbibliography.The numberoflistscompiledbyeachisshownaftertheauthorsname.Major contributorstotheregion’splantdatabasethroughthecompilationofplant checklistsinclude:TonyDruce,BarbaraMitcalfe,ChrisHorne,PatEnright,Isobel Gabites,ColinOgle,MaggyWassilieff,AalbertRebergen,OlafJohn,Wellington BotanicalSociety,AndrewTownsend,NickSingers,TonySilberyandthe DepartmentofConservation. Plantchecklists(providinganinventoryofplantspeciesfoundataparticularplace atagiventime)andvegetationsurveyshaveavarietyofuses.Theyareusedto evaluatetheconservationstatusofindigenousplantspecies.Theyarealsousedin thedevelopmentofweedcontrolstrategies,formonitoringthechangingcondition ofvegetationandforsettingprioritiesforlandprotection. Therearevariousothersourcesofinformationaboutthedistributionofplantsin WellingtonConservancy.Theyincludeherbaria,scientificreports(e.g.,Partridge 1992)andjournals(e.g.,theTransactionsoftheNewZealandInstitute).The DepartmentofConservationhasusedinformationfromthosesourcesin developmentoftheregion’splantdatabases.However,referencestothat informationhasnotbeenincludedinthisreport. 3 1.1 THEUSEOFPLANTCHECKLISTSANDVEGETATION SURVEYDATA Plantchecklistsandothervegetationsurveydatasetscanbeusedasasourceof informationaboutthegeographicaldistributionofplants.Theyprovidean inventoryofbiologicalinformationforanareaandaninsightintotheplant compositionofthatareaataparticulartime.Theinformationpresentedherehas beenusedbytheDepartmentofConservationtoevaluatetheconservationstatus ofallindigenousvascularplantsfoundintheWellingtonConservancy.The informationhasalsobeenusedtodeterminewhetherspeciesofindigenousplants haveageographicaldistributionthatdoesnotcoincidewithareassetasideforthe protectionofbiologicaldiversity. Checklistsorsurveydatasheetscanbeusedforcomparativeanalysisoffuture changesinplantcompositionand,therefore,isamonitoringtool.Aplantchecklist orsurveyplotdatacanserveasaguideforanyonevisitingaparticularplace. Detailedplantchecklistsandsurveydataforaparticularspatialareacanalsobe usedandappliedinthedescriptionandclassificationofplantcommunities. Someplantchecklistsandvegetationsurveydataincludeexoticplants(adventives