[3] The site lies at an altitude of between 1,500 and 1,600 m asl in the Brindabella Ranges, close to Mount Ginini and within the catchment of the Cotter River.
[2] The wetlands are surrounded by low open snowgum woodland with a mixed grass, herb and shrub understorey.
Dry heath of leafy bossiaea and alpine shaggy-pea adjoins the woodlands in drier areas.
On more permanently moist sites it is replaced by tall wet heath, dominated by woolly tea-tree.
[2] The Ginini Flats support rare or endemic vertebrates and invertebrates, with many species at the northern limit of their range.