Abrotanella forsteroides is a common endemic cushion
plant especially in the eastern and central mountains.
It forms dense dark green cushions that are often intermixed
with other cushion plants. It has a fine hair at the tip of
each leaf.
It can be confused with Donatia
novae-zelandiae, which has dense hairy leaf
axils, and Dracophyllum
minimum which has reddish tips to the leaves
and lacks hairs. Other superficially similar cushion
species (Phyllachne
colensoi, Scleranthus
and Colobanthus
species) have distinctly yellowish green foliage. Veronica
ciliolata is only known from a single ridge on
Ben Lomond.
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