Adesmia microphylla

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|genus = Adesmia (plant)

|species = microphylla

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Adesmia microphylla, pahuen, is a common shrub in Coastal Chilean Matorral of Central Chile, 400 to 1000 masl., associates with Proustia pungens and Lithraea caustica. This species was merged as A. arborea, a taxon including A. confusa Ulibarri, a distinctive plant with flowers over brachyblasts. The flowers of A. microphylla appear over spines.Ulibarri EA. 1986 Darwiniana 27, 315