Forest Vines to Snow Tussocks: The Story of New Zealand Plants
Bogs
Bogs
At higher altitudes, and also in the 'lanes' at lower altitudes, on very wet, more or less level sites there is a low plant cover of mat or cushion plants including Carpha alpina, Astelia linearis, Oreobolus pectinatus, Centrolepis ciliata and 'glistening green mats' of Damnamenia vernicosa, an endemic genus formerly included in Celmisia.