Adesmia microphylla

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Adesmia microphylla
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Adesmia microphylla flowers and leaves
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
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 Lithraea 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. [2]

Use

As livestock forage. [2]

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References

  1. "Adesmia microphylla Hook. & Arn. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  2. 1 2 Ulibarri EA. 1986 Darwiniana 27, 315