Rainforest flora , Northern Chilean Patagonia.
Lenga: Nothofagus pumilio, 
Lenga. Nothofagus pumilio, has simple alternate leaves, whit and oval shape, crenellated margin and parallel nerves; each pair de nerves enclosing two lobes. They are dark green.
They leaves are deciduous and become red in autumn, before falling. The Lenga cupules have only two narrow valves with one fruit, instead of three, on the inside.
The bark is variable, rug-like, sometimes similar to that of Cigüe. Trees between 15 to 30 m high, according to where it inhabits and with a diameter of more than 1 m, with stratified ramification like that of Coigüe.
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