Azorella selago

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = Coussin d'Azorella selago sur l'île de la Possession (Crozet).jpg |image_caption = |genus = Azorella |species = selago |authority = Hook.f.<ref name=apni/><ref name=hooker/> }}

'''''Azorella selago''''' is a species of cushion plant native to the sub-Antarctic islands of the Southern Ocean, including the Crozet Islands, the Possession Islands, the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and the Prince Edward Islands.<ref name="Bergstrom2000">{{cite web|last=Bergstrom|first=Dana|title=Indicator 70 - The presence or absence of vascular plant species in two defined areas of Heard Island|url=http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=70|publisher=Australian Antarctic Data Centre, System for Indicator Management and Reporting|accessdate=2008-06-20| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080803181257/http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=70| archivedate= 3 August 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="leRoux2004">{{cite journal|last=le Roux|first=Peter C.|author2=Melodie A. McGeoch|title=The use of size as an estimator of age in the Subantarctic cushion plant, ''Azorella selago'' (Apiaceae)|journal=Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research|volume=36|issue=4|pages=509–517|publisher=Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research|doi=10.1657/1523-0430(2004)36[509:TUOSAA]2.0.CO;2|year=2004|s2cid=128585300 |issn=1523-0430|doi-access=free}}</ref> The closely related ''Azorella macquariensis'', which is endemic to Macquarie Island, was split from it taxonomically in 1989. ''A. selago'' is often a keystone species where it occurs and is well studied for its contribution to its native ecosystems.<ref name="Bergstrom2000" /><ref name="Phiri2007">{{cite web|last=Phiri |first=Ethel E. |author2=Steven L. Chown |author3=Melodie A. McGeoch |title=Spatial distribution of mouse damage to the keystone plant species, ''Azorella selago'', on Marion Island |url=http://academic.sun.ac.za/botzoo/agm_abstracts_2007.htm |publisher=Department of Botany & Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa |accessdate=2008-06-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120020753/http://academic.sun.ac.za/botzoo/agm_abstracts_2007.htm |archivedate=2008-01-20 }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=apni>{{APNI2|id=|name=Azorella selago}}</ref>

<ref name=hooker>{{cite book|author=Hooker, J.D. |date=1845|title=The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. I. Flora Antarctica 2(13): t. 99|volume=1 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13448576}} [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3011632 p.284]</ref> }}

selago Category:Flora of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Category:Flora of the Kerguelen Islands Category:Flora of the Prince Edward Islands Category:Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker Category:Plants described in 1845