''Baccharis intermedia'' is a species of shrub native to

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 ...

. The species was first formally described by the botanist

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candol ...

in 1836.

Distribution

This species is common on coastal hills of central Chile.

Natural hybridisation

It is observed in areas, in which the habitats of ''

Baccharis linearis ''Baccharis linearis'', the romerillo or Chilean little rosemary, is a common shrub in Central Chile. It is frequently found in old field after agriculture. Cecidia or galls caused by the fruit fly ''Rachiptera limbata'' grow as white, spongy an ...

'' and ''

Baccharis macraei ''Baccharis macraei'' is a species of shrub native to Chile and Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_ ...

'' overlap or come into close contact. It is a natural hybrid of the aforementioned species and is part of a homoploid hybrid swarm. The morphology is intermediate in all aspects and shows all variations from both extremes of the parental phenotypes to intermediate forms. This is due to the back-crossing of hybrids with the parent species. The intermediate morphology is also reflected in the specific epithet ''intermedia'', which suggests this species is intermediate between others.

References

intermedia Intermedia is an art theory term coined in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe various interdisciplinarity art activities that occur between genres, beginning in the 1960s. It was also used by John Brockman to refer to works ...

Plants described in 1836 Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Flora of Chile Hybrid plants Dioecious plants {{Astereae-stub