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Ourisia breviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to mountainous habitats of the Andes of southern Chile and Argentina. George Bentham described O. breviflora in 1864. Plants of this species are rosettes with has crenate, hairy leaves, and the hairs on the plant are not glandular. Inflorescences are short racemes with 1 to 5 flowers. Flowers are usually solitary in each inflorescence node, corollas are bilabiate and pink to lilac, and calyx lobes are all equally divided to the base of the calyx. Two allopatric subspecies are recognised that can be distinguished based on leaf hairs, corolla striations, and floral bract size.
Ourisia breviflora is endemic to the Andes mountains of Chile and Argentina from approximately 37°S to 56°S latitude. It is found in the Chilean regions of Biobío, Araucanía, Los Ríos, Los Lagos, Aysén and Magallanes, and the Argentinean provinces of Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego. It can be found between sea level and 2000 m above sea level depending on latitude. O. breviflora is found in humid or wet habitats such as stream banks, waterfalls, rocky cliffs, crevices, bogs, and heath, in Nothofagus forest near the treeline in orophytic (subalpine) areas. O. breviflora is one of three species of Ourisia to reach Tierra del Fuego (together with O. fuegiana and O. ruellioides), where is part of the 'alpine meadow' plant community, including on Isla de los Estados, in three of the four main vegetational zones, i.e. Magellanic moorland, evergreen forest and deciduous forest.
Ourisia alpina · Ourisia biflora · Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora · Ourisia breviflora subsp. uniflora · Creeping Mountain Foxglove · Ourisia calycina · Ourisia chamaedrifolia · Ourisia coccinea subsp. coccinea · Ourisia coccinea subsp. elegans · Ourisia coccinea · Ourisia confertifolia · Ourisia cotapatensis
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Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
