The Endemic Plants of Chile

Place of Publication

Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat., Santiago de Chile 18: 26 (1940)

Common names

• pata de león (Espinosa (1940))

References

• Espinosa (1940)

  Espinosa, M.R. 1940. Una nueva especie de Anemone L.; Anemone moorei Espinosa, Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural. Santiago de Chile 18: 26-31

• Lourteig (1951)

  Lourteig, A 1951. Ranunculáceas de Sudamérica Templada, Darwiniana 9(3–⁠4), 397–⁠608

• Ruiz (2001)

  Ruiz, E 2001. Ranunculaceae. En: C. Marticorena y R. Rodríguez (eds.), Flora de Chile 2 (1): 40-84.

• San Martín & Gómez (2006).

  San Martín, L and Gómez, P 2006. Anemone moorei, Ranunculaceae, ¿Un Endemismo con Problemas de Conservación en la VII Región?. Gayana Botánica. 63. 35.

• Belov et al. (2010)

  Belov, M. , Gómez, P. and Hahn, S. 2010. Un nuevo hallazgo de Anemone moorei Espinosa (Ranunculaceae), una especie endémica de la pre-cordillera de la Región del Maule (VII) Chile central. Chloris Chilensis 12(2)

Iconography

• Lourteig (1951): fig 56

Regions

Maule

Habitat

Mediterranean and Mountain matorral & sclerophyllous forest

Distribution and habitat

Restricted to a relatively small area between 500 and 1000 m above sea level in Vilches (Talca Province). Formerly thought to only occur in a single location but two more locations have been discovered in the vicinity (Belov et al. 2010). Occurs in forest with Nothofagus glauca, N. macrocarpa and N. alpina. Other species include Dasyphyllum diacanthoides and Rhaphithamnus spinosus

Descriptions

• Lourteig (1951)
• Ruiz (2001)

Habit

Sub-shrub, 1-2 tall. Flowers November to December. Fruiting December to January

Notes

Seed of this species is banked by the national seed bank of Chile, INIA.