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Pentachondra pumila (Carpet Heath)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Pentachondra pumila, the Carpet Heath is a small plant in the Heath family. A semi alpine plant growing above the tree line in Australia and New Zealand. The form is in prostrate mats 3 cm high and 40 cm across. Frilly flowers and red fruit may appear at the same time.
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Predators

Apteryx australis lawryi (Stewart Island kiwi)[1]
Nestor notabilis (Kea)[2]
Oligosoma grande (Grand skink)[3]
Oligosoma otagense (Otago skink)[3]
Tuckerella litoralis[4]

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♦ 1DIET OF THE STEWART ISLAND BROWN KIWI (APTERYX AUSTRALIS LAWRYI) AT SCOLLAY'S FLAT, SOUTHERN STEWART ISLAND, R. Colbourne and R.G. Powlesland, New Zealand Journal of Ecology 11: 99-104 (1988)
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 3The diet of grand skinks (Oligosoma grande) and Otago skinks (O. otagense) in Otago seral tussock grasslands, Mandy D. Tocher, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 30: 3, 243 — 257 (2003)
♦ 4New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0