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Azorella Fuegiana
''Azorella fuegiana'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Azorella'' found in Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a .... External links ''Azorella fuegiana''at Plants for Life.org. fuegiana Flora of Chile Taxa named by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini {{Apiaceae-stub ...
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Azorella
''Azorella'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to South America, New Zealand, southeastern Australia, and the islands of the Southern Ocean. They are low-growing dwarf mat-forming plants growing in high exposure on mountains and subantarctic coasts; with great age they may form rounded mounds of foliage up to 1 m high but are usually less than 10 cm high. Several species are grown as ornamental plants in rock gardens. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted 58 species: *''Azorella acaulis'' (Cav.) Drude *''Azorella albovaginata'' (Gillies & Hook.) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas *''Azorella allanii'' (Cheeseman) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas *''Azorella ameghinoi'' Speg. *''Azorella andina'' (Phil.) Drude *''Azorella aretioides'' (Kunth) Willd. ex DC. *''Azorella biloba'' (Schltdl.) Wedd. *''Azorella boelckei'' (Mathias & Constance) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas *''Azorella burkartii'' (Mathias & Constance) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas *''Azorella ...
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after declaring in ...
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Flora Of Chile
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.Thurmann, J. (1849). ''Essai de Ph ...
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