The Endemic Plants of Chile

Place of Publication

PhytoKeys 211: 111, figs. 1-4 (2022)

Type citation

Chile. Región Metropolitana de Santiago: Provincia de Chacabuco, Comuna de Lampa, cerro Quilhuica, 600 m a.s.l., 17 June 2021, N. García & C. Cuevas 6132 (holotype: EIF 14823; isotypes: CONC, JBN, SGO).

Common names

• estrella de Lampa (García et al. (2022))

References

• García et al. (2022)

  García, N , Cuevas, N , Sepúlveda , J E , Cádiz-Véliz, A and Román, M J 2022. Two new species of Miersia and their phylogenetic placements alongside the recently described M. putaendensis (Gilliesieae, Allioideae, Amaryllidaceae). PhytoKeys 211: 107-124.

Regions

Metropolitana

Habitat

Mediterranean and Mountain matorral & sclerophyllous forest

Distribution and habitat

Only know from a single location on the isolated hill of Quilhuica, Lampa. Here it grows in rock crevices along with Tristagma graminifolium. The surrounding vegetation corresponds to a degraded sclerophyllous scrub of Lithraea caustica, Quillaja saponaria and Porlieria chilensis (García, 2022).

Conservation status

• CR B2ab(iii) (García et al. (2022))

Habit

Flowers between May and August. Immature fruits have been recorded during August and September (García, 2022)