Piptolepis ericoides Schultz-Bipontinus (1863: 383)

Loeuille, Benoît, Semir, João & Pirani, José R., 2019, A synopsis of Lychnophorinae (Asteraceae: Vernonieae), Phytotaxa 398 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

3. Piptolepis ericoides Schultz-Bipontinus (1863: 383) . Type:— BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: near Itambé , August 1840 ,

G. Gardner 4750 (lectotype: K e! [ K000873815 ], designated by Jeffrey & Hind (1994: 95); isolectotypes: E e!

[E00417135], GH [GH00011275], K e! [K000873813], BM [not seen], P [P00683107, P00683108 (fragment)], US

[ US 01106273]) ( Fig. 35 A ).

Vernonia ericoides Lessing (1831: 629) , non V. ericoides ( Lamarck 1786: 92) Lessing (1829: 247) . Type:— BRAZIL. No other data, F. Sello(w) s.n. (lectotype: P [P02511962], designated here).

Lychnophora diosmaefolia Pohl ex Baker (1873: 143) , nom. nud. pro syn.

Distribution and habitat: — Brazil (Minas Gerais, widespread along several serras of the Espinhaço range). Campo rupestre; 700–2050 m.

Taxonomic notes: —A variable species easily recognized by its narrowed linear leaves and solitary capitula with 9–13 florets. It can be confused with Piptolepis buxoides , but that species has ovate to oblanceolate and elliptic leaves. Of the different Sellow’s material of Vernonia ericoides , only the Berlin lost sheet bore the number 793 and 993 (MacBride’s Berlin negatives at Field Museum), Baker (1873: 143) cited a third number (1074) but the material from BR [BR550350], F [F0051818F (fragment)], K [K000965263] and P [P02511962] do not display any of those numbers and therefore it is impossible to conclude that they belong to a same gathering. The Paris specimen is the material cited and studied by Schultz-Bipontinus and has been chosen as the lectotype.

Representative specimens: — BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Catas Altas, Serra do Caraça , Inficionado peak, 5 April 2007, A. M . Teles et al. 387 ( BHCB); Grão-Mogol, rio Itacambiruçu , próximo a barra do Escurinho, 19 July 1998, G . Hatschbach et al. 68062 ( ALCB, BHCB, ESA, MBM, UB, US) ; Santana do Riacho, Serra do Cipó , P. N . da Serra do Cipó, cânion das Bandeirinhas, beira do rio Cipó , 15 February 2002, B . Loeuille et al. 123 ( SPF) .

Figures

FIGURE 35. Piptolepis ericoides. A. Flowering branch. P. campestris. B. Head. P. leptospermoides. C. Head. P. monticola. D. Habit. P. oleaster. E. Habit. P. pabstii. F. Habit. P. riparia. G. Flowering branches. A., E.–G. by B. Loeuille. B. by N. Roque. C. by I.M. Franco. D. by M. Lusa.