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Donatia novae-zelandiae in flower, Cradle Mountain Lake Saint Clair National Park, Tasmania. Photographer: Kinara Johnson.
Tasmanian cushion plants are low growing, highly compact, woody, spreading mats that can grow up to 3 m in diameter, located mainly on the island of Tasmania. These mats are made up of tightly packed stems that grow at the same rate so that no apical rosettes protrude above the rest. The term cushion plant refers to a characteristic growth habit adopted by various species from a range of families to adapt to alpine and subalpine environments and areas of high latitude.[1] They are adapted to grow in low nutrient areas and typically have deep taproots. Cushion plants are very slow growing and do not grow high above ground; mounds typically remain under 30 cm high. Underneath the living surface of the cushion, the plants either allow dead leaves to persist or produce non-photosynthetic material, resulting in an insulating effect.
Tasmaniancushionplants are low growing, highly compact, woody, spreading mats that can grow up to 3 m in diameter, located mainly on the island of Tasmania...
or subarctic environments around the world. The term "cushion" is usually applied to woody plants that grow as spreading mats, are limited in height above...
Ewartia meredithiae, commonly known as the rusty cushionplant, is a Tasmanian endemic cushionplant species. Out of the four species in Australia from...
forsteroides, commonly known as the Tasmaniancushionplant, is an angiosperm endemic to Tasmania, Australia. The plant is a dicot species in the daisy family...
includes shrubs lower than 2 metres, along with grasses, cushionplants, mosses, and bog plants. Low dense thickets of Nothofagus cunninghamii and Nothofagus...
been expanded by Tasmanian Aboriginal burning practices. Tasmania also features a diverse alpine garden environment, such as cushionplant. Highland areas...
three families (7 species) contain plants which regularly present a cushion habit but not exclusively. Young cushions may grow vigorously in the presence...
evident in alpine heath, cushionplants and sedgeland. Australia portal Weather portal 1967 Tasmanian bushfires 2013 Tasmanian bushfires This not a comprehensive...
2:261". Key To Tasmanian Vascular Plants. UTAS. Retrieved 16 March 2021. Gibson, Neil B (1988). "A study on the biology of four Tasmaniancushion species" (PDF)...
flowering plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae. There is only one known species, Pterygopappus lawrencii (sage cushionplant), which...
for the clade. The conifer division of plants includes the tallest organism, and the largest single-stemmed plants by wood volume, wood mass, and main stem...
macquariensis, also known as Macquarie azorella or Macquarie cushions, is a species of cushionplant endemic to Australia’s subantarctic Macquarie Island. It...
been shown to be in alpine herbfield and cushionplant communities. Due to its palaeoendemic status, the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service consider C...
herbaceous alpine plant in the family Gentianaceae, endemic to the island of Tasmania in Australia. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian mountain gentian...
Ferdinand von Mueller from plants collected at Mount La Perouse, Tasmania by A. Oldfield. Anisotome procumbens is a mat- or cushion-forming perennial herb...
montana and other cushionplants by its leaves. S. archeri has leaves that are circular and stacked together unlike other cushionplants. S. montana does...
in cushionplant mounds. Gray, A. M. (2009). 127 Stylidiaceae, version 2009:2. In M. F. Duretto (Ed.) Flora of Tasmania Online. 9 pp. (Tasmanian Herbarium...
the western highlands of Tasmania. The Ewartia genus is described as cushionplants/herbs due to the characteristic growth habits of low growing, highly...
and politically a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1900, it became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
pygmaea is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is prostrate, cushion-like undershrub with narrowly oblong...
Phyllachne colensoi, the yellow cushionplant, is a species of cushionplant in the Stylidiaceae family. It is native to both New Zealand and Tasmania...
been expanded by Tasmanian Aboriginal burning practices. Tasmania also features a diverse alpine garden environment, such as cushionplant. Highland areas...
alongside many other herbaceous plants that are native to these habitats. Silver tussock grasslands are a subcategory of Tasmanian Lowland Native Grasslands...
similar alpine plant Pentachondra pumila. M. dealbata is a small prostrate woody shrub, part of the Ericaceae family, that forms dense, cushion-like mats of...
environments. The cushionplants form a smooth surfaced 'cushions' from several different plants, hence the common name of cushion heath. The cushion growth habit...
determining communities of Tasmanian highland treeless vegetation, as it appears in western alpine heathland (HHW) and cushion moorlands (HCM). The first...
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