Adesmia microphylla
Adesmia microphylla | |
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Adesmia microphylla flowers and leaves | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Genus: | Adesmia |
Species: | A. microphylla |
Binomial name | |
Adesmia microphylla | |
Adesmia microphylla, pahuen, is a common shrub in Coastal Chilean Matorral of Central Chile, 400 to 1000 masl., associates with Proustia pungens and Lithrea caustica. This species was merged as A.arborea, a taxon including A.confusa Ulibarri, a distinctive plant with flowers over brachyblasts. The flowers of A.microphylla appear over spines.
Use
As livestock forage.
Sources
Ulibarri EA. 1986 Darwiniana 27, 315
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