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Don ex Hook. & Arn. Rosette-forming, either solitary or in tight clusters. Leaves almost circular to broadly ovate or elliptic, toothed, glaucous and glabrous, somewhat fleshy, 2-7 by 2-5cm plus a slightly winged petiole l-5cm long. Flowerheads sessile or almost so, solitary or a few together, broadly bell-shaped to hemispherical, 2-3.5cm long by 3.5-5cm wide, rather like a small artichoke with numerous florets, the outer one raylike, purplish maroon, dusky rose or straw-yellow, summer in the wild. Seeds large, angular and white, like chips of weathered bone. Argentina and Chile from the northern cordilleras to northern Andean Patagonia, as lone colonies from 2000-4000m. [Pl.332].
