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Von Valley Wetland Management Area
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Von Valley Wetland Management Area
Description:
A large area of wetlands (including tarns, kettle holes, restiad bogs, cushion bogs, rush and sedge swamps, moist depressions and seepages) west of Lake Wakatipu in the Von Valley.
Type/Class:
Bog, swamp, and tarn. 1
Size:
2.5 ha.
Altitude:
500 - 540 m above sea level.
Approximate location:
33 km Northwest of Kingston.
NZTM (centre point): E1231400 N4984800
Regional Plan: Water for Otago
Schedule 9 Regionally Significant Wetland, no.163, Maps F9 & F10.
Territorial Authority:
Queenstown Lakes District Council
Recorded Values:
Value |
Description |
|---|---|
A1 |
Habitat for nationally or internationally rare or threatened species or communities. Presence of threatened plant species Cardamine sp., Oreomyrrhis colensoi var. delicatula, Crassula multicaulis, Isolepis basilaris, Tufted hair-grass (Deschampsia caespitosa), Ranunculus ternatifolius and Brachyscome linearis. 1 |
A3 |
High diversity of wetland habitat types. High diversity of habitat types (see physical description above). 1 |
A5 |
Scarce in Otago in terms of its ecological or physical character. Some of the wetlands are scarce in Otago Region terms of physical/ecological character. 1 |
A7 |
High diversity of indigenous wetland flora and fauna. High diversity of flora (the botany of the kettleholes and their margins is described by Johnson 1993c 99). 1 |
A2, A4, A6, A8, A9 |
No relevant information is currently held by the ORC. |
References:
1 Otago Regional Council (2004) Regional Plan: Water for Otago. Published by the Otago Regional Council, Dunedin.
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