Ephedra chilensis
'Ephedra chilensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ephedra/ephedra-chilensis/). Accessed 2026-09-05.
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'Ephedra chilensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Ephedra andina Poepp. & Endl.
- Ephedra americana var. andina (Poepp. ex C.A.Mey.) Stapf
A more or less prostrate, much-branched shrub. Branchlets slender, clustered, with the internodes 1⁄4 to 11⁄4 in. long. Male flower-spikes solitary or grouped, on short side-branchlets, to 3⁄5 in. long. Fruits broadly egg-shaped, about 3⁄5 in. long, bright red. Native of the Andes; it is in cultivation from Comber’s seed, collected in 1926, but the plant figured in Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 142, was introduced to the Cambridge Botanic Garden in 1899.