Apium australeThouars

WFO wfo-0000540579 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Apium australe, photographed by John Brew
fig. a John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-01-14 / obs. 34948444
Apium australe, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. b Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191387787
Apium australe, photographed by John Brew
fig. c John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34948448
Apium australe, photographed by María Regina Silva
fig. d María Regina Silva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163084957

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Apium australe is native: Amsterdam-St.Paul Is., Falkland Is., Tristan da Cunha, Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South, Desventurados Is., Juan Fernández Is. Falkland Is.Argentina SouthChile CentralChile South Amsterdam-St.Paul Is.Tristan da Cunha
Native distribution of Apium australe, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina South AGS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS
Desventurados Is. DSV
Juan Fernández Is. JNF
Amsterdam-St.Paul Is. ASP ANTARCTICA
Falkland Is. FAL
Tristan da Cunha TDC

Not drawn on the map: Desventurados Is., Juan Fernández Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Apium antarcticum Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
  • Apium goughense Baker f. & Wilkins
  • Apium maclovianum Gand.
  • Petroselinum australe (Thouars) Hook.f.
  • Selinum chrysostomiale E.H.L.Krause
  • Wydleria chilensis Fisch. & Trautv.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.