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Table 4 Dominant plant species associated with each of the three alpine communities identified by SSA classification at the Western Finisterres, Papua New Guinea. Not all plants could be identified to species level since only a small proportion of the flora was in flower at the time of the study. All species were identified by staff of the Lae Herbarium, Papua Guinea

From: Preservation of thin tephra

Group

Community type

Dominant species

1 Site Nos: 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11

Shrublands on well-drained slopes (>7 degrees)

Selliguea sp.

Gaultheria mundula

Styphelia suaveolens

Coprosma divergens

Gleichenia bolanica

Festuca sp. (papuana?)

Myosotis linearis

2 Site Nos: 2, 3, 5, 10, 13

Tussock grassland on wet sites

Deschampsia klossii

Drapetes ericoides

Astelia papuana

Potentilla sp.

Rhododendron womersleyi

3 Site Nos: 12, 14

Non-tussock grass and herbfield on waterlogged sites

Astelia papuana

Monostachya oreoboloides

Trachymene sp.

Potentilla sp. (fousteriana?)

Carpha alpina

Ranunculus sp.