Belloa chilensis

Description:

Superior Taxa: Asteraceae / Asterales / Magnoliopsida
Sinonimia: Lucilia araucana Phil.; Lucilia chilensis Hook. & Arn.; Lucilia nivea (Phil.) Cabrera
Variable mat-former with gleaming silvery indumentum, the stems creeping and rooting. Leaves oblong-ovate to somewhat spathulate 3-10mm long, densely borne, those at the stem tips rosetted. Flowering stems l-5cm tall. Flowerheads solitary and terminal or sometimes with a few others in the upper leaf axils, 4-9 by 0.3-lmm.
The commonest and best known member of its genus and much like a mat-forming New Zealand Raoulia.

Habitat:

Chile and Argentina, in the southern volcano and lake district on bare volcanic ash or sand flats and slopes, also in screes and between rocks at 900-2000m.

Notes:

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