Ourisia Muscosa

Ourisia muscosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to páramo habitats in the Tropical Andes mountains of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. George Bentham described O. muscosa in 1846. Plants of this species of South American foxglove are small, perennial, and repent herbs with entire and tightly clustered, sometimes opposite, leaves. The flowers are solitary, with a regular calyx, and a regular corolla, and with two floral bracts that cover the calyx. The calyx has tiny glandular hairs, whereas the corolla is glabrous and white on the outside, and yellow and hairy inside.

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