Lepidaploa eriolepis (Gardner) Robinson (1990: 487)
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Felipe |
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Lepidaploa eriolepis (Gardner) Robinson (1990: 487) |
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6. Lepidaploa eriolepis (Gardner) Robinson (1990: 487) View in CoL . Vernonia eriolepis Gardner (1846: 224) . Type:— BRAZIL. Without locality, G. Gardner 1718 (syntypes BR! F! GH! K!, NY! S! [online image!]). Figure 9 View FIGURE 9 .
Herbs, subshrubs or erect shrubs 0.9–2 m tall; branches densely strigose-tomentose, slightly ribbed. Leaves distichous, cauline, internodes 4.2–4.9 cm long, petioles 7.7–9 mm long, blade 12.2–15.4 × 4.1–6 cm, membranaceous, rugose, ovate-lanceolate, apex caudate, margins denticulate, base attenuate, both surfaces densely strigose-tomentose; venation eucamptodromous-reticulodromous. Capitulescence seriate-cymose with capitula sessile, 8.3–17.4 cm long, axis densely strigose-tomentose, ferruginous. Involucre widely campanulate, 8.7–10.5 mm in diam., phyllaries 5–6- seriate, chestnut, membranaceous, densely strigose-tomentose, outer oval-lanceolate, apex apiculate, inner elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute. Florets 35–40, corolla white, tube 4.5–5 mm long, glabrous, lobes 2–2.5 mm long, lanceolate, apex setose; apical anther appendages acute, base sagittate; basal stylar node enlarged. Cypsela turbinate to obconic, 1.5–2 mm long, velutinous; carpopodium anullar. Pappus chestnut.
Specimens examined — BRASIL. Paraná: Antonina, Usina Hidrelétrica Parigot de Souza, Cota 800, 5 October 2006, J.M. Silva 5007 (CTES, MBM). Santa Catarina: Santo Amaro da Imperatriz, Cova da Onça, 12 August 2009, A. Stival-Santos 785 (MBM).
Distribution and habitat — Lepidaploa eriolepis is scarcely distributed in the study region, occurring exclusively in Paraná and Santa Catarina, Brazilia. In these states this species grows in the Atlantic Rainforest or the Cerrado ( Figure 10 View FIGURE 10 ).
Phenology —Collected with flowers from June to December.
Notes —The species can be recognized by its heads with 35–40 florets, restricted distribution, presence of a strigose-tomentose and ferruginous indumentum covering the whole plant (branches, leaves, phyllaries), and pappus chestnut.
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