Authors: Benth.  

Botanical Description

Decumbent rather

flopping perennial with numerous herbaceous stems

up to 30cm or so long, forming a diffuse circular

mat, its overall height equalling the most ascending

of its stem tips, perhaps as much as 15cm, though

usually much less. Leaves with hairy petioles

4-15cm long and downy, oblong-ovate to elliptic,

irregularly pinnatisect blades 4-10 by 1.5-2.5cm,

the teeth of their lobes ovate or oblong and

mucronate. Flowers solitary, axillary, one to each

node, along the stems on pedicels 1.1-3.5cm long,

the sparsely hairy campanulate blackish-brown to

dark violet corolla 6-9mm deep, with narrowly tri

angular lobes to half this. Chile and Argentina,

southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, on the

exposed steppe or beach sands at sea level to 300m.

Fascinating after the fashion of J. laciniata, though somewhat flawed by the ratio of overbearing foliage to small flowers.