Adesmia microphylla

Adesmia microphylla
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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