Azorella trifurcata

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Azorella trifurcata, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik — fig. b Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184515962

Azorella trifurcata, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg — fig. c Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 183333014

Azorella trifurcata, photographed by Pablo — fig. d Pablo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178444907

Azorella trifurcata, photographed by Lauu — fig. e Lauu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178116186

Azorella trifurcata, photographed by Ezequiel Vera — fig. f Ezequiel Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177910464

Azorella trifurcata, photographed by Federico Muñoz — fig. g Federico Muñoz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 175845918

Azorella trifurcata, photographed by aacocucci — fig. h aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173184728

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession: K000036504
Filed as: Azorella trifurcata (Gaertn.) Pers.
Det. by: Nicki Biggs
Collected: Cabrera, A.; et al.
Origin: AR
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Azorella trifurcata, 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 Northwest	AGW	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South	AGS
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 327 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-6.2 °C	-2.9 °C	1.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	11.4 °C	13.4 °C	22.4 °C
Annual rainfall	341 mm	687 mm	2,535 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	54 mm	121 mm	464 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 327 research-grade observations of Azorella trifurcata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 17 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 albida Phil.
Azorella caespitosa Cav.
Azorella crassifolia Pers.
Azorella gilliesii (Hook.) Hook. & Arn.
Azorella rahmeri Phil.
Azorella trifurcata var. normalis Kuntze
Azorella trifurcata var. rahmeri (Phil.) Kuntze
Azorella trifuscata Hook.
Azorella triscuspidata Lam.
Azorella utriculata Griseb.
Bolax caespitosus Spreng.
Bolax gilliesii Hook.
Bolax trifurcatus Spreng. ex Steud.
Chamitis complicata Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Chamitis tricuspidata Gaertn.
Chamitis trifurcata Gaertn.
Fischera caespitosa (Cav.) Spreng.

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.

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.