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Ourisia pulchella is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to high-elevation habitats in the altiplano and puna of the Tropical Andes mountains of southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia. Hugh Algernon Weddell described O. pulchella in 1860. Plants of this species of South American foxglove are small, perennial, and repent herbs with hairy, opposite, tufted leaves. There can be up to three flowers on a short raceme, and each flower has an irregular calyx, and a long, bilabiate, tubular-funnelform, white corolla (tinged purple on the corolla tube) with included stamens. The calyx is densely hairy, whereas the corolla is hairless on the outside but densely hairy on the inside near the tube opening.
Ourisia pulchella is known only from the high elevation, rocky habitats in the altiplano and puna of central Peru (Huánuco province, c. 10°S) and northwestern Bolivia (Cochabamba and La Paz Departments, c. 17°S) from 3000 to 4050 m above sea level. There are few herbarium specimens or observations of it.
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 pulchella 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.
