23 23 REPORT REPORT
BCTANY BCTANY
N.T. N.T.
GENERAL GENERAL
~JETLAND, ~JETLAND,
DSIR DSIR
DIVISION DIVISION
BOTANY BOTANY
JULY JULY
MOAR MOAR
DIVISION, DIVISION,
1953 1953
NOTES NOTES
29TH 29TH
l.JN l.JN
JUNE JUNE
DSIR DSIR
SWAlfS SWAlfS
-
11TH 11TH
ANC ANC
JULY JULY
WATER WATER
1953 1953
PLANTS PLANTS IN IN Information in this unpublished report should not be used without approval of the Director of Botany Division and the author .. GENERALNOTES ON SWAMPSAND WATERPLANTS IN WESTLAND
29th June - llth July 1953
N.T. Moar Botany Division, DSIR 23 July 1953
SUMMARY
These notes were made while studying silver pine swamps in the district.
Plant communities
swamp and water plants were
were were
were many silver would Hypolaena Lake Ross The visiting Hari This
Kokatahi noted. Rimu or Okarito aquatic
Bruce General Cladium gymnopitys) alongside Polamogeton of Pakihis
and simplex Isoetes after
the of
tram-line.
to
work
pool
Lake be
Poerua
sluggish formed
noted made.
Pakihi,
A Hari A A pools Myriophyllum Nothing
Notes
and collected. frequent. Ianthe
is In
worthy
proably
day-break. Bay
narrow pine
brief
large
was
beside
Roadside
State
notes
alpinus of
Kiui
teretifolium in in
(Nympha
Woodstock
the
laterifiora a
growing
River)
on and easy
on connection
this
was
noted
area. A back suboblangus
swampy district streams examination could
of
swamp, In
a
be
dredge
road
Forest
specimen
on
the
swampy the
species
was
sp.?)
Black
access.
growing a
In
area
worthwhile
drains
Swamps
road
growing Potamogeton
careful Pakihis
location
(propinquum?)
between
drive-way Access
in
be
one
Shearer
areas
found
were
was were
41
tailings
was
a
areas
with Creek
and
running observed
in
pool
of
of
was
roadside
and in
and
(access
was
dense
connection
washed
observed.
Gabnia· and
around examination. between
frequently to.both
also this Nitella
Rimu
shallow
silver of
swamp,
investigating. Water
pools a
in
growing
(access
made
into
was
sluggish
broad
cheesemanii
from
lakes,
which
was
here
over examined
and
was
from
drain.
sp. up the
J.S.
was
along traversed.
areas
Okarito
just
Plants
pine
was
water.
Wanganui
collected.
Woodstock
with
on
noted
from as
in
leaved
large
were
Potamogeton
were
shore,
full
road
lagoons
observed
Bradley's
noted streams
we
muddy
the
south
"swamps",
the
is
(see
Foster's
the
in
various
of
and
frequent
arrived
area running
and
in
narrow
Specimens
aquatic
easy.
eastern
and
Flat
Westland,
water
about
of plants,
swamp
a
and
later).
Along
running
Myriophyllum
the
were
Swamps
on growing
roadside
a ai Hari Hari
sp.
house
Road
swamps
as
aquatic
species gravel
beside
farm
one Forks
after
two on between
(Nympha and
noted.
shore
this
these
and
but of
towards
a beside
and
to
29th
miles
the
water
at
in
were
Isoetes were pakihi
dark, drain.
Myriophyllum
Wanganui beach.
road no
the
plants.
of
of
the sluggish
township
may
a
large
propinquum
sleepers
June
In
close
sp.?)
stream
L. Chara
south
Poerua
noted made
plant
the
the there
road
and
be
a
lying
and
Ianthe.
- In
stream
leaved
Leptocarpus
road,
useful
coast,
was
River)
observations
left
in
llth
These
of
end
appeared streams
bulletin. (possibly
in
2'-3' the
were
Chara
River
of
behind
the
sp.
Ross. were
seen.
passing.
beside
and vicinity the
soon
July
when
·
deep.
course
a
1953 Arahura, Gladstone Hokitika-Greymouth
train.
interesting
Coastal
Areas
Kapitea
timber
to
swamps
which
note
mill.
Creek,
might
Melianthus
and
Chesterfield,
lagoons,
be
worthwhile
major
all
2.
of
growing
Gladstone
visiting
easy
beside
access,
and
were
Paroa.
the
were
noted
railway
noted
near
It
was
from
line,
Ha
Ho,
the
at
a