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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Azorella''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| subregnum = [[Tracheobionta]]
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Apiales]]
| familia = [[Araliaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Hydrocotyloideae]]
| genus = '''''Azorella'''''
| genus_authority = [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck|Lam.]]
| synonyms =
*''Apleura'' <small>[[Phil.]]</small>
*''Fragosa'' <small>[[Ruiz]] & [[Pav.]]</small>
*''Microsciadium'' <small>[[Hook.f.]]</small>
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
including:
*''[[Azorella caespitosa]]''
*''[[Azorella compacta]]''
*''[[Azorella diapensioides]]''
*''[[Azorella filamentosa]]''
*''[[Azorella fuegiana]]''
*''[[Azorella gummifera]]''
*''[[Azorella lycopodioides]]''
*''[[Azorella pedunculata]]''
*''[[Azorella selago]]''
*''[[Azorella trifurcata]]''
*''[[Yareta|Azorella yareta]]''
}}
'''''Azorella''''' is a [[genus]] of about 70 [[species]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Araliaceae]], native to [[South America]], [[New Zealand]] and the islands of the [[Southern Ocean]]. The genus is sometimes placed in family [[Apiaceae]].
They are low-growing dwarf mat-forming plants growing in high exposure on [[mountain]]s and subantarctic [[coast]]s; with great age they may form rounded mounds of foliage up to 1 m high but are usually less than 1 dm high. Several species are grown as [[ornamental plant]]s in [[rock garden]]s.
[[Category:Araliaceae]]
{{Apiales-stub}}