<documentID-CLB-Dataset="20967"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.161.53736"ID-GBIF-Dataset="b4f1293f-5eab-48a3-ad42-3cbbc996989e"ID-PMC="PMC7508922"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2003-161-61"ID-Pensoft-UUID="540913ADED1758EB839CD921EA0403FF"ID-PubMed="33005090"ModsDocID="1314-2003-161-61"checkinTime="1600207754012"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Merklinger, Felix F. & Luebert, Federico"docDate="2020"docId="E63E026F860E5C3AAFE1F4E9F7CAB5B9"docLanguage="en"docName="PhytoKeys 161: 61-77"docOrigin="PhytoKeys 161"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.161.53736"docTitle="Ophryosporus floribundus (DC.) R. M. King & H. Rob., Phytologia 25: 66. 1972"docType="treatment"docVersion="6"id="540913ADED1758EB839CD921EA0403FF"lastPageNumber="61"masterDocId="540913ADED1758EB839CD921EA0403FF"masterDocTitle="Notes on the genus Ophryosporus (Asteraceae, Eupatorieae) in Chile"masterLastPageNumber="77"masterPageNumber="61"pageNumber="61"updateTime="1732749728409"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:namePartid="D648455AC74E35FF306782BACC09ACBE">Merklinger, Felix F.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="8ABC84E9587DF1599192B2F8963D80FA">University of Bonn, Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, Meckenheimer Allee 170, D- 53115 Bonn, Germany</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="19B8194ECBBAAA8338359BDA7B6A1119">University of Bonn, Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, Meckenheimer Allee 170, D- 53115 Bonn, Germany & Departmento de Silvicultura y Conservacion de la Naturaleza, Universidad de Chile, Av. Santa Rosa 11315, Santiago, Chile</mods:affiliation>
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et al. (2018) based on four specimens. Three of them were collected by R. Pinto in the late 1990s at three coastal localities in northern Chile, Alto Chipana, Punta Lobos and Punta Gruesa (
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being narrowly oblanceolate and with entire margins and an obtuse apex, others becoming more broadly lanceolate to triangular with dentate margins and an acute apex thus remotely resembling
. On younger shoots the leaves appear more or less opposite but generally they are borne in fascicles. The cypselae of the plants on both sheets of the type specimen of
