New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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The vegetation of the Kaitake Range Egmont National Park, New Zealand

B. D. CLARKSON

Botany Division, DSIR
c/- FRI, Private Bag
Rotorua, New Zealand

Abstract The results of a vegetation survey of the Kaitake Range, part of Egmont National Park, are presented. More than ninety-five percent of the vegetation is native forest, the main types repre- sented being dominated by kohekohe (Dysoxylum spectabile), tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), and kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa) respectively. Forest com- position changes mainly with increasing altitude but also differs on the landward and coastal slopes of the range. Likely contributing environmental factors are described. An annotated list of the 270 native vascular taxa noted during the survey is included. The flora and vegetation are compared with those of the remainder of Egmont National Park and the Egmont ring plain. The Kaitake Range is found to support the largest remnants of lowland and semi- coastal forest types which covered the Egmont ring plain before farmland development.

Keywords Kaitake Range; Egmont National Park; forest types; induced grassland; scrub; exotic plantations; flora; succession; species distribution; ordination

Received 30 May; accepted 30 July 1984
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1985, Vol. 23: 15-31
0028-825X/85/2301-0015$2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1985

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