| Dracophyllum
minimum is an native cushion plant that is common in
alpine areas of the south, centre and west of Tasmania. The
flowers are solitary, and the leaves have reddish tips.
It can be confused with Abrotanella
forsteroides, which has a single hair at the
tip of each leaf and Donatia
novae-zelandieae, which has densely
hairy leaf axils. 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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