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Perezia magellanica

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Authors: L.   L. f.   Lag.  

Botanical Description

Dainty perennial 3-20cm in height, glandular-hairy. Leaves in basal tufts, l-5cm long, pinnately lobed like those of Blechnum penna-marina. Flowerheads solitary, bell- shaped, to 1.5cm long and somewhat wider, the outer bracts glandular and reddish, containing up to twenty-one florets each with an 8-18mm long ray, spring and summer in the wild. Chile and Argentina, in bogs, swamps, feldmark, streamside rocks and damp moorland at 50-1400m.