Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan Table 11 (cont) Indigenous Vegetation and Landforms - Kaituna Ecosystem Landform Components Geology Remnant Native Past and Potential Vegetation Native Vegetation 2. Moderately steep to steep Siliceous, strongly Forest Forest lower hill and mountain developed Hard beech-kamahi-ponga Hard beech-kamahi-ponga slopes [includes some largeMarlborough Schist forest with some rimu. forest with some rimu. scale slab failures] Black beech forest with Rimu-black beech forest. 0 -700 m elevation mingimingi, shining karamu. Mixed broadleaf forest with mahoe, fivefinger, tree fuschia, wineberry, putaputaweta. Tawa-titoki-white maire forest. Rimu-black beech forest. Manuka-kanuka scrub. Tawa forest with mixed broadleaf species mainly mahoe. Scrub and Tussockland Tauhinu scrub. Manuka- kanuka scrub. Silver tussockland. 3. Moderately steep low Siliceous, strongly Forest Forest broad headlands developed Black beech-kowhai-akiraho Black beech-kowhai-akiraho 0-50 m elevation Marlborough forest (Mahakipawa coastal forest (Mahakipawa coastal Schist fringe). fringe). Black beech forest with Rimu-black beech forest. mingimingi, shining karamu. 4. Broad undulating terraces, Recent and - Forest floodplains and fans [eg; Pleistocene Kahikatea-pukatea swamp P27/840900] alluvium from maire forest. 0 -20 m elevation predominantly Kahikatea forest. schistose rocks Matai-totara-mixed broadleaf forest. Harakeke-cabbage tree flax- tree land. 5. Narrow undulating terraces Pleistocene Forest Forest and footslope fans alluvium from Rimu-black beech forest Rimu-black beech forest. [Kaituna Valley] predominantly Totara-matai-white maire 5 -120 m elevation schistose rocks forest. Kahikatea-matai-tawa fore st. 6. Narrow sinuous Recent alluvium - Forest floodplains from Kahikatea forest. 5-20 m elevation predominantly Lowland ribbonwood-matai- schistose rocks - totara-kowhai forest. Kahikatea-matai-tawa forest. 7. Prograding delta/tidal flat Recent alluvial Oioi rushland Shrubland and Rushland [eg; P27/745910] and estuarine Oioi rushland. 0-3 m elevation deposits Marsh ribbonwood-coastal shrub daisy-coprosma- tauhinu estuarine shrubland. Forest and Treeland Kowhai-narrow-leaved lacebark, lowland ribbonwood forest. App Two - 54