Fleischmannia profusa
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Ordo: Asterales
Familia: Asteraceae
Genus: Fleischmannia
Name
Fleischmannia profusa H. Rob., sp. nov. – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type
El Salvador. Prov. La Libertad, Fls. purple, herb 0.5 m, common on rocky slopes along litoral road to La Libertad, alt. 30 m, s.d. A. Molina, W.C. Burger & B. Wallenta 16685 (holotype US, isotype F).
Ab species Fleischmanniam aliam omninoin phyllariis numerosis 4-5 seriatis argute acuminatis distincte gradatis differt.
Branching herbs to 0.5 m; stems hispidulous with minute erect stipitate glands, glabrescent below; internodes mostly 1.5-2.0 cm. Leaves opposite, with numerous fascicles in axils; petiole 3-6 mm; blade mostly 2.0-3.2 × 1.4-2.3 cm, deltoid, trinervate from base, surface with few to many minute stipitate glands, without glandular dots, adaxial surface sparsely pilose, base broadly subtruncate, margins 5-8-crenate beyond widest part, apex short-acute. Capitulescence of 1-5 capitula terminal on main stem and branches, subtended by sparse narrow bracteoles 3-7 mm; peduncles 0.6-1.0 mm, with minute stipitate glands. Capitula 6-7 mm; phyllaries c. 60, subimbricate, graduate in c. 4-5 series, lanceolate, 1.5-4.0 × 0.4-08 mm, all narrowly acute to slightly acuminate, green, scarcely scarious, with many minute stipitate glands. Florets c. 60; corollas c. 3 mm, purple, lobes c. 0.4 mm, with few or no small trichomes; style branches not broadened distally. Cypselae c. 1.5 mm, black with black ribs at maturity, scabrid on ribs; pappus with c. 20 bristles 2.5-3.8 mm, slightly non-contiguous at base. Common on rocky slopes along litoral road, 30 m. ES (Molina, Burger & Wallenta 16685 (US).
The type specimen was originally distributed from the Escuela Agricola Panamericana and the Chicago Natural History museum under the name Eupatorium ovillum Standl. & Steyerm, a completely different species now known as Ageratina ovilla (Standl. & Steyerm.) R.M. King & H. Rob. In the initial study of the Mesoamerican Eupatorieae, the specimen described here as a new species was included in the widely distributed Fleischmannia imitans (B.L. Rob.) R.M. King & H. Rob. with which it shares the achenes with blackened ribs, the pubescence of numerous stipitate glands and the numerous pointed involucral bracts. The bracts of the latter, however, are only 35-40 in ca. 3 weakly subimbricate series, are not as obviously acuminate and are not strongly unequal or gradate. The leaves of the new species are primarily deltoid while those of Fleischmannia imitans are ovate lanceolate to lanceolate. The latter also has no or comparatively few axillary fascicles of leaves on the vegetative stems. The distinctions between Fleischmannia profusa and Fleischmannia imitans in couplet form are as follows:
Original Description
- Robinson, H; 2011: A New Species of Fleischmannia (Asteraceae, Eupatorieae) from El Salvador PhytoKeys, 7: 37-40. doi
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