Lardizabala biternata (flowers) Inao Vásquez 001

''Lardizabala'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

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flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s. These plants are

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s, native to temperate forests of central and southern

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 sole species is ''Lardizabala biternata'' Ruiz & Pav, known as ''Coguil, Cogüilera, Coiye, Coille, Voqui cógüil,'' or ''Voqui coille,'' in Chile, and known as Lardizabala or Zabala fruit in English. It is grown for its edible fruits (called ''coguil'' or ''cógüil'' in

Mapuche language Mapuche (, Mapuche & Spanish: , or Mapudungun; from ' 'land' and ' 'speak, speech') is an Araucanian language related to Huilliche spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people (from ''mapu'' 'land' and ''che ...

) and ornamental flowers. The genus is dedicated to , a Spanish

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from the 18th century.

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"Lardizabala biternata" en enciclopedia de la flora Chilena

* ttp://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Lardizabala+biternata ''Lardizabala biternata'' Lardizabalaceae Monotypic Ranunculales genera Flora of Chile Garden plants of South America {{fruit-stub