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Taproot deeply delving, giving rise to subterranean crown stems. Rosettes 2-3cm in diameter. Leaves in spirals, closely imbricate, ovate to rounded with prominent dark reddish margins. Flowers white with a yellow throat, to 1.5cm wide with a short, fat spur, in a dense ring around the outer leaf tips, can be sweetly scented, early summer in the wild. Mainly Argentina but also Chile, northern and central Andean Patagonia, particularly the volcano and lake district in bare stony places, scree and among boulders at 1300-2000m. For an illustration see AGS Bulletin 1:250 (as V. aff. vulcanica). [Pl.537]
