Alpine conifers include the pencil pine (Athrotaxis cupressoides) and other Athrotaxis spp., growing with shrubs such as Diselma spp. and Microstrobos spp. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian Central Highland forests] Reference
For example, populations of relictual Gondwanan conifer genera, now known only from Tasmania, i.e. Athrotaxis, Diselma, Microcachrys, are present and best represented in alpine moorland and rain forest communities. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference
Co-dominants are Huon pine Lagarostrobos franklinii, one of the longest-lived species in Australia (2,000 years or more), in riverine habitats, and King Billy pine Athrotaxis selaginoides, celery top pine Phyllocladus aspleniifolius, and horizontal Anodopetalum biglandulosum on poor sites and at high altitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference
Distinctive rainforest species include Australia’s only winter-deciduous tree, Nothofagus gunnii, as well as myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii), sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum), King Billy pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides), pencil pine (Athrotaxis cupressoides), horizontal (Anodopetalum biglandulosum), Huon pine (Lagarostrobus franklinii), celery-top pine (Phyllocladus asplenifolius), and chestnut pine (Diselma archeri). From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian temperate rain forests] Reference
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