Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Oreobolus (Cyperaceae) 4b:108
Tasmania has six species of Oreobolus. All of these are subalpine and alpine tufted plants that form dense clusters, cushions or mats on boggy soil. They are one of the more abundant groups of plants in this habitat. In most species, the tufts are flattened from side to side (with a row of leaves on each edge of the flattened shoot), but in O. pumilio the tufts are not flattened and the leaves are spirally arranged.

 
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