Lomatia ferruginea, commonly known as fuinque, is a small evergreen tree in the family Proteaceae.

It is native to southern Argentina and Chile,[2] the Patagonia region of South America.

It is evergreen, with few branches, newly shoots are covered in reddish-brown hairs.

The flowers are hermaphrodite and pedicellate, 2 cm long, in racemes shorter than the leaves, made up by 14-16 opposite flowers, grayish-yellow in bud, every flower is formed by 4 tepals which are oval lanceolate bicolor, reddish brown with green apex, then thinned and again wide at the concave apex of 1.5 cm long, with sessile anthers at the concave apex of the petals, long style, red bulky and oblique stigma.

[4] The genus name Lomatia comes from the Greek lomas, because of the seed's edge, and ferruginea from Latin, meaning ferrous or rusty, referring to the reddish-brown color in new buds.