Libertia chilensis, synonym Libertia formosa,[1] called the New Zealand satin flower,[2] snowy mermaid,[3] or Chilean-iris,[4] is a species of flowering plant in the iris family, Iridaceae, native to the Juan Fernández Islands, central and southern Chile, and southern Argentina.[1] It can also be found growing wild in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Bernardino County in California,[5] where it is an introduced species. A rhizomatous evergreen perennial, it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Iridaceae |
| Genus: | Libertia |
| Species: | L. chilensis
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The Calle-Calle River in Los Ríos Region owes its name to the Mapuche word for the plant.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Libertia chilensis (Molina) Gunckel". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Libertia chilensis New Zealand satin flower". The Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ NRCS. "Libertia formosa". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ "Libertia formosa". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Historia". Museo de Sitio Castillo de Niebla (in Spanish). Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
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