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Ourisia pygmaea is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to mountainous habitats of the Andes of southern Argentina and Chile. German-Chilean botanist Rodolfo Amando Philippi described O. pygmaea in 1858. Plants of this species are very small, with solitary white bilabiate corollas that are glabrous (hairless) inside the corolla tube, a regular calyx with 5 ciliate lobes divided to the base, glabrous leaves, and a creeping habit.
Ourisia pygmaea is endemic to the Andes mountains of southern Argentina and Chile from approximately 37°S to 45°S latitude. It is found in the Argentinean provinces of Neuquén, Río Negro and Chubut, including some national parks, and the Chilean regions of Biobío, Los Ríos, Los Lagos and Araucanía. It can be found from 900 to 2500 m above sea level in wet or rocky habitats, often near running water, sometimes with mosses and sedges or below the tree line in Nothofagus forest.
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
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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.
