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Ourisia fuegiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to mountainous habitats of the Andes of southern Argentina and Chile. Swedish botanist Carl Skottsberg described O. fuegiana in 1916. Plants of this species are very small, with solitary white bilabiate corollas, a subregular calyx with 5 ciliate lobes usually divided to the base, hairy leaves with non-glandular hairs only, and a very short stigma. It is found in Tierra del Fuego but is not endemic there; its geographic range extends north to 46°S.
Ourisia fuegiana is endemic to the Andes mountains of southern Argentina and Chile from approximately 46°S to 56°S latitude. It is found in the Argentinean provinces of Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego and the Chilean regions of Aysén and Magallanes, including Tierra del Fuego National Park, and several islands such as Isla Navarino and Isla de los Estados. It is one of three species of Ourisia to reach Tierra del Fuego (together with O. ruellioides and O. breviflora subsp. breviflora). It can be found from 60 to 1200 m above sea level in wet or rocky habitats such as alpine bogs or cliffs, often near running water above tree line.
Ourisia alpina · Ourisia biflora · Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora · Ourisia breviflora subsp. uniflora · Ourisia breviflora · Creeping Mountain Foxglove · Ourisia calycina · Ourisia chamaedrifolia · Ourisia coccinea subsp. coccinea · Ourisia coccinea subsp. elegans · Ourisia coccinea · Ourisia confertifolia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ourisia fuegiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
