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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Gunnerales |
| Family: | Gunneraceae |
| Genus: | Gunnera |
| Species: | G. magellanica
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| Gunnera magellanica Lam.
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Gunnera magellanica is a perennial rhizomatous dioeceous herb native to Chile,[1] Argentina and the Falkland Islands, and Andean areas of Peru, Ecuador.[2] In the southern part of its range it grows in damper parts of the Magellanic subpolar forests and Valdivian temperate forests,[3] and shrub formations on Tierra del Fuego, with an altitudinal range from sea level to 1500m.
- ^ Reiche, Karl (1898). Flora de Chile. Vol. 2. Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Cervantes. pp. 273–274. OCLC: 12918229.
- ^ GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (1 July 2013). "Gunnera magellanica". The Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.884818/Valdivian_Temperate_Flooded_Swamp_Forest_Macrogroup