Distribution map (Brown et al. 1983). The side of each square measures 10 km. A blue square indicates arboretum collections; a green square denotes a written record. You can also create a highly detailed map, and access specimen data, using the "search" function at the Australia Virtual Herbarium.
Microstrobos niphophilus
Drooping pine (DPIW 2009).
Syn: Pherosphaera hookeriana J. D. Hooker 1850, non Archer (Dallimore et al. 1967). Type location Lake St. Clair, Tasmania, where collected by R.C. Gunn on 1841.01.07 (Hill 1998).
Shrubs to 2.5 m tall, densely branched. Branches short and stiff. Leaves up to 1.5 mm long and 1 mm wide. Seeds c. 1 mm diameter. Other characters as for the genus (Hill 1998).
Australia: Tasmania, Mt. Field National Park; scattered elsewhere, locally abundant at mesic sites in subalpine areas in the west, southwest and on the central plateau, usually at elevations above 1000 m (Hill 1998).
Collections are reported from Lake St. Clair and Eagle Tarn.
Brown, M.J., J.B. Kirkpatrick and A. Moscal. 1983. An atlas of Tasmania's endemic flora. Tasmania Conservation Trust, 102, Bathurst Street, Hobart 7000, Tasmania. 110 pp. ISBN 0959981683.
Garden, J. and L. A. S. Johnson. 1951. Microstrobos, a new name for a Podocarpaceous genus. Contr. New South Wales Natl. Herb. 1:315-317.
Hooker. 1850. Kew Journal 2:52.
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