Flora and Fauna of Tasmania

Persoonia gunnii, commonly known as the mountain geebung, is a slow-growing shrub endemic to wet forests and subalpine shrubberies in Tasmania. It forms a bush ranging from 60 cm to 3 m (2–10 ft) in height with short, up-curved leaves and scented cream-yellow flowers in summer giving way to small dark purple fruit. It is a common shrub in subalpine areas of the state and is occasionally confused with P. muelleri. less ↑

The Tree Zieria or Stinkwood is a small tree or sturdy shrub in the citrus family. A common plant found in eastern Australia. Zieria arborescens subsp. arborescens may grow to 10 metres in height, the habitat is the edges of rainforest or in tall moist eucalyptus forest. Either near the coast or on the adjacent mountain ranges. The leaves and timber have an unpleasant scent, hence the common name. less ↑

Forstera bellidifolia, the Tasmanian Forstera, is a species in the family Stylidiaceae that is endemic to Tasmania, Australia. It was described by William Jackson Hooker in an 1851 volume of Icones Plantarum. It is notably different from other members of the genus in that it is not native to New Zealand nor does it possess the epigynous nectaries that are present in the other species. less ↑

Tasmannia lanceolata (syn. Drimys lanceolata), commonly known as the mountain pepper (Aus), or Cornish pepper leaf (UK), is a shrub native to woodlands and cool temperate rainforest of south-eastern Australia. The shrub varies from 2 to 10 m high. The aromatic leaves are lanceolate to narrow-elliptic or oblanceolate, 4–12 cm long, and 0.7–2.0 cm wide, with a distinctly pale undersurface. Stems are quite red in colour. The small cream or white flowers appear in summer and are followed... less ↑

Urtica incisa, commonly called scrub nettle, stinging nettle, and tall nettle, is an up-right perennial herb native to streams and rainforest of eastern and southern Australia, from the north–east southwards through the east, of Queensland and New South Wales, then across the south, through Victoria, Tasmania, south-eastern South Australia and parts of southern Western Australia. less ↑

Gratiola peruviana, commonly known as Austral Brooklime, is a small perennial herb in the family Plantaginaceae. The species is native to South America and Australasia. It grows to between 10 to 30 centimetres high and has pink or white tubular flowers with red-purple stripes inside. These are followed by ovoid capsules that are up to 7mm long. The stem-clasping ovate leaves are arranged in opposite pairs and have shallowly toothed edges. less ↑

Isophysis is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and rhizomatous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae). A monotypic genus formerly known as Hewardia, it contains a single species,Isophysis tasmanica , endemic to the mountains of Western Tasmania growing in heathland on sandy soils. It has grass-like foliage and star-like dark red-purple or yellow flowers with reflexed tepals. A characteristic feature of this species is its superior ovary, which distinguishes it from any other member of Iridaceae. The... less ↑