Family | ROSACEAE |
Genus species | Acaena caespitosa Gillies ex Hook. & Arn. |
Synonyms | Acaena chamaegeron Bitter |
Acaena chubutensis Bitter | |
Acaena pulvinata Kuntze | |
Habitat | cold steppes |
Altitude | 0-3000m |
Description | sericeous, leaves 15-35mm, in outline elliptical, 5-9 pairs of leaflets crowded, oblong-ovate, entire to triternate, achenes with number of short spines |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | cushion |
Cultivation | open site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 3-12 months, 10-16°C division in early spring and fall; cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Southern America
Southern South America (Argentina South , Chile South) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ROSACEAE
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