Claim: Gypothamnium(Jose L. Panero) is a genus of South American flowering plants within the Mutisieae of the Asterales family that has only one known and accepted species, Gypothamnium pinifolium, native to the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
Evidence: Genus: Gypothamnium
Phil. Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808 – 23 July 1904) was a German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist.