Editing Lamington National Park (section)

===Flora===
The national park protects one of the most diverse areas of vegetation in the country.<ref name="xqnp"/> The park's lush rainforests include one of the largest upland [[subtropical]] rainforest remnants in the world and the most northern [[Nothofagus moorei|Antarctic beech]] cool [[temperate rainforest]]s in Australia.<ref name="asm"/> The roots of the oldest Antarctic beech trees are over 5,000 years old.<ref name="heritage" /><ref name="asm"/> Around Mount Widgee numbers of Antarctic beech appear to be increasing.<ref name="naq"/> The park protects one of the country's largest remaining forests of hoop pine (''[[Araucaria cunninghamii]]'') which are found on the drier slopes.<ref name="xqnp"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/lamington/culture.html |title=Lamington National Park: Nature, culture and history |date=19 October 2009 |access-date=5 October 2014 |publisher=Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006120740/http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/lamington/culture.html |archive-date=6 October 2014  }}</ref>

Below {{convert|880|m}} the [[white booyong]] and [[black booyong]] are commonly found.<ref name="naq"/> In higher elevations the [[yellow carabeen]], [[red carabeen]], [[pigeonberry ash]], [[rosewood]] and [[Ackama paniculosa|soft corkwood]] trees predominate.<ref name="naq"/>

Many of Lamington's plants are found nowhere else on earth, such as the Mt Merino [[eyebright]] and [[Xerochrysum bracteatum|Everlasting Daisy]] which are [[subalpine]] relics from the [[Last glacial period|last ice age]]. In 2006 it was realised that an old collection of the eastern [[underground orchid]] (''[[Rhizanthella slateri]]'') from Lamington was actually a separate species and has been described as the Lamington underground orchid (''[[Rhizanthella omissa]]''). This orchid, like the two other related species, has no [[chlorophyll]] and depends entirely upon a [[symbiotic]] fungus for survival. It is also one of only four flowering plants on Earth to complete its life cycle entirely underground. Sadly, one of Lamington's more than 100 fern species is now presumed extinct; ''[[Antrophyum austroqueenslandicum]]'' was known from only a single plant which has since died and no other plants have been found. Lamington is also home to a large number of threatened plant species such as the ravine and blotched ''Sarchochilus'' [[orchid]]s.  [[Strangler fig]]s are also found in Lamington.