Azorella prolifera

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Azorella prolifera, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik — fig. b Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184929357

Azorella prolifera, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg — fig. c Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184168456

Azorella prolifera, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal — fig. e Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179300741

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Azorella prolifera, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina Northeast	AGE	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest	AGW
Argentina South	AGS
Bolivia	BOL
Chile Central	CLC
Chile North	CLN
Chile South	CLS

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.

Flowering 88 in flower of 153 examined

60%

37%

44%

43%

74%

Proportion of examined Azorella prolifera in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	28	47	60%	45% to 72%
Feb	10	27	37%	22% to 56%
Mar	4	9	44%	19% to 73%
Apr	0	1	too few examined
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	1	1	too few examined
Jul	1	2	too few examined
Aug	0	1	too few examined
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	0	3	too few examined
Nov	3	7	43%	16% to 75%
Dec	40	54	74%	61% to 84%

Peak flowering in Dec. Each bar is the share of Azorella prolifera observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 88 of 153 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 32 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.

Azorella echinus (DC.) G.M.Plunkett & A.N.Nicolas
Azorella prolifera var. hirsuta (Phil.) Mart.Fernández & C.I.Calviño
Azorella prolifera var. zechii (Mart.Fernández & C.I.Calviño) Mart.Fernández & C.I.Calviño
Bolax echinus Presl ex DC.
Bolax prolifer (Cav.) Spreng.
Mulinum chillanense Phil.
Mulinum echinus DC.
Mulinum gandogeri M.Hiroe
Mulinum hirsutum Phil.
Mulinum laxum Phil.
Mulinum leoninum Lor.
Mulinum ovalleanum Phil.
Mulinum patagonicum Gand.
Mulinum proliferum (Cav.) Pers.
Mulinum spinosum Pers.
Mulinum spinosum f. humilis Kurtz
Mulinum spinosum f. minus Kuntze
Mulinum spinosum f. toscae Kuntze
Mulinum spinosum var. chillanense Reiche
Mulinum spinosum var. hirsutum (Phil.) Mart.Fernández & C.I.Calviño
Mulinum spinosum var. laxum Reiche
Mulinum spinosum var. leoninum (Lorentz) Kuntze
Mulinum spinosum var. longeinvolucratum Hicken
Mulinum spinosum var. minus (Kuntze) Zech

and 8 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.

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