Ourisia polyantha | |
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Ourisia polyantha observed at Cerro Cantillana, Chile | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Plantaginaceae |
Genus: | Ourisia |
Species: | O. polyantha
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Binomial name | |
Ourisia polyantha | |
Synonyms | |
Ourisia diazii Phil. |
Ourisia polyantha is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to the Andes mountains of central Chile. Eduard Poeppig and Stephan Endlicher described O. polyantha in 1835. Plants of this species of South American foxglove are small, showy, perennial, many-branched and suffruticose with entire, decussate leaves. The flowers are solitary, with a regular calyx, and a regular corolla. The calyx has tiny glandular hairs, and the corolla tube is red, but yellow and glabrous inside.