SE. Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Auckland Islands; KUKENTHAL treats the South American C. schoenoides BANKS & SOL. ex HOOK.ƒ. as a variety of C. alpina; it is evidently closely allied and probably a geographical race. In Malesia: W. New Guinea (Mt Wilhelmina) and E. New Guinea (Mt Sarawaket, Mt Amungwiwa, Mt Wilhelm, Kubor Range, Mt Hagen, Mt Sugarloaf, Mt Giluwe, Mt Piora, Mt Dickson, Mt Scratchley, Mt Albert Edward, Mt Knutsford).