Biology:Adesmia microphylla

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Short description: Species of plant

Adesmia microphylla
Adesmia microphylla.jpg
Adesmia microphylla flowers and leaves
Scientific classification edit
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
Hook. & Arn.[1]

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]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q796350 entry