Acaena antarctica is a small herbaceous plant in the Rosaceae family native to Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands.
Acaena antarctica was first formally described in 1846 by Joseph Dalton Hooker. Kew holds specimens collected by Hooker from Hermite Island, Cape Horn on the Ross expedition.The genus name Acaena is derived from the Ancient Greek word akaina meaning 'thorn' or 'spine', referring to the spiny calyx of many species of Acaena. The specific epithet, antarctica, derives from the Greek ...
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