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Deuterocohnia digitata L.B.Sm.

Publ: Phytologia 18(3): 137 (1969)

Type: Argentina, Prov. Salta, Dept. Cachi, Cerros de Cachi, 07 Feb. 1943, Castellanos s.n. [holotype: BA 46636, photo in US, isotype: US 88763].

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Distribution: ARGENTINA. Prov. Salta.

Habitat: errestrial, in Inter-Andean dry valleys, on rocky hillsides with loose gravel and solid to weathered rock, open shrub cover, 2200–3200 [–3800] m. Elev.

Etymology: The epithet refers to the partial inflorescences, which may be arranged like fingers of a hand at older inflorescences (Latin digitus = finger).

Deuterocohnia digitata