Mulguraea scoparia(Gillies & Hook.) N.O'Leary & P.Peralta

WFO wfo-0000918155 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Mulguraea scoparia, photographed by Agustín Zarco
fig. a Agustín Zarco, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-30 / obs. 106904984
Mulguraea scoparia, photographed by Agustín Zarco
fig. b Agustín Zarco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106904996
Mulguraea scoparia, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. c Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57972163
Mulguraea scoparia, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. d Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57972154

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Mulguraea scoparia is native: Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central Argentina NorthwestArgentina SouthChile Central
Native distribution of Mulguraea scoparia, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South AGS
Chile Central CLC

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 13 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.

  • Diostea scirpea (Phil.) Miers
  • Diostea scoparia (Gillies & Hook.) Miers
  • Diostea scoparia var. puberula (Tronc.) Moldenke
  • Diostea scoparia var. subulata Moldenke
  • Dipyrena scoparia (Gillies & Hook.) Ravenna
  • Junellia scoparia (Gillies & Hook.) Botta
  • Junellia scoparia var. puberula (Tronc.) Botta
  • Lippia aphylla Phil.
  • Lippia scirpea Phil.
  • Neosparton scirpeum (Phil.) Ravenna
  • Verbena scoparia Gillies & Hook.
  • Verbena scoparia var. aphylla (Phil.) Acevedo
  • Verbena scoparia var. puberula Tronc.

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.

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