1.1.1. Neurolaena lobata (Linnaeus) Cassini (1825: 502) ≡

Conyza lobata Linnaeus (1753: 862) . (Figs. 1, 2, 3).

= Conyza symphytifolia Miller (1768: 150) ≡ Pluchea symphytifolia (Miller) Gillis (1977: 591) .

= Calea surianii Cassini (1817: 33) ≡ Neurolaena surianii (Cassini) Cassini (1818: 28–29) .

= Neurolaena integrifolia Klatt (1884: 94) .

= Eupatorium valverdeanum Klatt (1893: 188) .

= Eupatorium chrysocephalum Klatt (1895: 2) ≡ Critonia chrysocephala (Klatt) King & Robinson (1971: 48) .

= Neurolaena fulva Turner (1977: 251) .

Brief description: —Shrubs 0.5–4 m tall. Leaf petiole 2.8–20.5 mm long, blade 10–35.8 × 2–20 cm, bilobed, venation penninervous, abaxial surface glandular-punctate; capitula discoid, involucre 2.75–7 × 2.9–6.8 mm, cylindrical to narrowly campanulate, phyllaries pilose; receptacle holopaleaceous, paleae 4.9–5.1 mm long; disc florets 20–30 per capitulum, corolla 4.2–4.6 mm long, greenish yellow to pale yellow; cypselae 1.2–1.6 mm long, eglandular, pappus 30–40 bristles.

Geographic distribution: —From Mexico through Central America to South America in the Guyanas and the Andes, from Colombia and Venezuela to Bolivia: Bolivia (US 2250179!), Brazil (US 2964528!), Colombia (US 3160645!), Costa Rica (US 1227781!), Ecuador (US 2795977!), French Guiana (US 3513356!), Guatemala (US 2822875!), Guyana (US 3401242!), Honduras (US 1169038!), Mexico (US 1808385!), Nicaragua (US 398770!), Panama (US 3754499!), Suriname (US 2168803!), Venezuela (US 1067401!), and in the Caribbean Islands: American Virgin Islands (US 1404423!), Antigua and Barbuda (US 428834!), Bahamas (NY 1675598!), Barbados (ASU 29089!, digital image), British Virgin Islands (US 759040!), Cuba (US 2111846!), Dominica (US 2527616!), Dominican Republic (US 1078257!), Grenada (US 2510328!), Guadeloupe (US 849921!), Haiti (US 1452790!), Jamaica (US 428092!), Martinique (US 3542848!), Montserrat (US 695201!), Puerto Rico (US 00792017!), Saint Lucia (US 2286065!), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (US 1884321!), Trinidad and Tobago (US 3617119!), and Turks and Caicos Islands (FTG 140603, digital image!). We add one new occurrence in Saba, Netherlands Antilles (Figs. 1, 2, 3).

Selected Material: — BRAZIL. Roraima: Serra do Surucucu, 18 February 1969, G.T. Prance 10061 (MO) . SABA, CARIBBEAN NETHERLANDS [NETHERLAND ANTILLES]. Mount Scenery, trail from parking area at SW end in the Mountain Road, S. A. Mori et al. 26850 (MO, NY) .