Authors: Endl.   Poepp.  

Botanical Description

More or less cushion-forming, 10-20cm tall in flower. Leaves shallowly cordate-ovate, 2-3cm long with rounded teeth, pale green, hairy beneath on 3-4cm hairy petioles. Stems hairy with flowers in a onesided loose raceme, 1-1.5cm long by 1.3-1.8cm across, pink to red with a line of dark red dots in the throat, summer. Argentina and Chile, the southern volcano and lake districts, in moist, peaty soil in rocky gullies and scrub margins.

a, O. alpina; b, O. coccinea; c, O. macrophylla;