Fleischmannia schickendantzii (Hieron.) R.M. King & H. Rob., Phytologia 19: 205. 1970

Robinson, Harold, 2015, The genus Fleischmannia in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay (Eupatorieae, Asteraceae), PhytoKeys 57, pp. 61-92 : 79-80

Fleischmannia schickendantzii (Hieron.) R.M. King & H. Rob., Phytologia 19: 205. 1970

Eupatorium schickendantzii Hieron., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 22: 769. 1897. Type: Argentina. Catamarca, in der Quebrada (Schlucht) und auf der Cuesta de la Muschaca, Feb 1876, Schickendantz 259 (holotype B, destroyed, photos GH, US).

Description.

Erect or reclining herbs to 1.5 m tall; stems terete, striate, puberulous; internodes 5-12 cm long; branches spreading at 45-90° angles. Leaves opposite; petioles slender, 1.5-40 cm long, puberulous; leaf blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 4-9 cm long, 1.8-6.5 cm wide, obtuse at base, each margin with 5-11 sharp or crenate teeth, apex narrowly acute but not acuminate; surfaces sparsely pilosulous to nearly glabrous, puberulous on veins; triplinervate from petiole, main veins dark. Inflorescence lax, with elongate branches bearing groups of few heads at corymbiform cymose tips; peduncles 5-30 mm long, puberulous. Heads with involucres 4-5 mm high, 2.5-4.0 mm wide; involucral bracts 20-26 in 5-6 series, gradate, outer bracts 1.0-1.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, puberulous, middle bracts lanceolate, 2.5-3.0 mm long, usually acute, inner bracts linear-oblong, 4.0-4.5 mm long, glabrous. Florets 17-24 in a head; corollas lilac, ca. 3 mm long, basal tube 0.6 mm long, throat ca. 2 mm long, lobes ca. 0.4 mm long and wide, without hairs outside; anther thecae ca. 0.8 mm long; apical appendage ca. 0.25 mm long; style branches slender, scarcely broadened distally. Achenes 2.0-2.5 mm long, ribs narrowly pale, setuliferous; pappus whitish, of ca. 30 slender bristles ca. 3 mm long, not contiguous at base.

Specimens seen from Bolivia.

Tarija, Prov. O’Connor, 73.i km E of Tarija-Padcaya road, on road to Entre Rios (ca. 1 km below Narvaez), elev. 1700 m, moist sub-tropical forest with many Myrtaceae , Podocarpus , Legumes & abundant epiphytes, 21°25'S, 64°63'W, shrub, 1.5 m, forest understory, corollas very pale pink, 1-2 May 1983, J.C. Solomon 10333 (MO, US); Tarija, Prov. Arce, 5 km S of Comunidad Guayavillas (28.3 km S of Padcaya) on road to Bermejo. Elev. 1800-1900 m, disturbed dry forest with isolated patches of Podocarpus , Myrtaceae in more moist places. 22°01'S, 64°39'W, corollas white, forest understory, 6 May 1983, J.C. Solomon 10500 (MO, US); Tarija: Prov. Arce, valley of the Río Chillaguatas, below Rancho Nogalar on trail between Sidaras and Tariquia, 22°05'S, 64°25'W, elev. 1100 m, moist sub-tropical forest, corollas white, moist sand along river, young plant, 14-16 Oct, 1983, J.C. Solomon 11254 (MO).