A synopsis of Lychnophorinae (Asteraceae: Vernonieae) Author Loeuille, Benoît Author Semir, João Author Pirani, José R. 1 Departamento de Botânica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, R. Prof. Nelson Chaves, s / n, CDU, 50670 - 420 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil 2 Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, C. P. 6109, 13083 - 970, Campinas, SP, Brazil. 3 Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 277, 05508 - 090, São Paulo, Brazil. 4 Corresponding author: benoit. loeuille @ gmail. com † Deceased November 8, 2018. benoit.loeuille@gmail.com text Phytotaxa 2019 2019-03-22 398 1 448 450 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.398.1.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.398.1.1 1179-3163 13713115 2. Lychnophora brunioides Martius (1822: 149) . Vernonia brunioides (Mart.) Lessing (1829: 248) . Type :— BRAZIL . Minas Gerais : in alpestribus summi Montis Itambé da Villa locis patentibus siccis, C.F.P. von Martius s.n. (493) ( holotype : M e ! [M0029465]; isotypes : G-DC e ! [G00464268 (fragment)], P [P04416548 (fragment)]) ( Fig. 42 C ). Lychnophora brunioides var. alpicola Mart. ex Candolle (1836: 80) . Type :— BRAZIL . Minas Gerais : in Serro Frio ad Tejuco , alt. 5000 ped., C.F.P. von Martius 1476 (495) ( holotype : M e ! [ M0029467 ]; isotype : G-DC e ! [ G00464280 (fragment)]). Distribution and habitat: — Brazil ( Minas Gerais , known only from the Pico de Itambé). Campo rupestre ; 1880–2052 m . Taxonomic notes: —The presence of an inconspicuous obtriangulate leaf sheath helps distinguish this species from Lychnophora pinaster (which has similar leaves but without leaf sheath). Coile & Jones (1981) excluded L. brunioides from Lychnophora and considered it a member of Piptolepis . However, the latter genus is defined by its pad-like leaf sheath and caducous phyllaries, characters absent from L. brunioides . Also similar to Lychnophorella , but these species also have a pad-like leaf sheath base (vs. obtriangulate). Representative specimens: BRAZIL . Minas Gerais : Santo Antônio do Itambé , alto do Pico do Itambé , 5 May 1942 , G . M . Magalhães 1582 ( BHCB , HB , RB ); ibid., 10 February 1972 , W . R . Anderson et al. 35749 ( RB , NY ); ibid., 18°23’53”S , 43°20’60”W , 2035 m , 28 January 2009 , B . Loeuille et al. 467 ( SPF , UEC ) .