The Sabine Valley is a landform in northern
South Island
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,
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
. Much of the Sabine Valley is forested with beech canopy. Example understory vegetation is the presence of ''
Archeria traversii
''Archeria traversii'' is a species of shrub in the family Ericaceae.
Distribution
''Archeria traversii'' is scattered locally across southern New Zealand (the South Island and Stewart Island), where it is endemic.Allan, H.H. 1961. Flora of New ...
'' within certain
mountain beech
''Nothofagus solandri'' var. ''cliffortioides'', commonly called mountain beech ( mi, tawhai rauriki), is a species of Southern beech tree and is endemic to New Zealand. Mountain beech grows in mountainous regions at high altitudes. In New Zeal ...
forests in the upper Sabine Valley of northern
South Island
The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...
, New Zealand.
[C. Michael Hogan. 2009]
Notes
References
* C. Michael Hogan. 2009
''Crown Fern: Blechnum discolor'', Globaltwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg* Peter Wardle. 1991. ''Vegetation of New Zealand'', Published by CUP Archive,
Landforms of the Tasman District
Valleys of New Zealand
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