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Ourisia ruellioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to mountainous habitats of the Andes of southern Argentina and Chile. Carl Linnaeus the Younger described Chelone ruelloides in 1782, and German botanist Otto Kuntze transferred it to the genus Ourisia in 1898. Plants of this species are large, showy plants with red, tubular almost regular corollas that are glabrous (hairless) inside the corolla tube, an irregular ciliate calyx with two calyx lobes deeply divided and three shallowly divided, and glabrous, serrate, ovate leaves. It is the most widespread and common species of Ourisia spanning 22 degrees of latitude and is the type species of the genus Ourisia.
Ourisia ruellioides is endemic to the Andes mountains of southern Argentina and Chile from 34°S to 56°S latitude. Spanning 22 degrees of latitude, it is the most widespread and common species of Ourisia. In Argentina it is found from Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego, including several national parks, and the Chilean regions of O'Higgins, Maule, Ñuble, Biobío, Araucanía, Los Ríos, Los Lagos, Aysén and Magallanes.
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.
