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 6. Heterocoma robinsoniana Loeuille, J.N.Nakaj. & Semir in Loeuille et al. (2013: 249) . Type:— BRAZIL . Minas Gerais : São Roque de Minas , P . N . da Serra da Canastra , morro após o vale da nascente do rio São Francisco , 11 January 1995 , R . Romero et al. 1708 ( holotype : HUFU [ HUFU7374 ]; isotypes : SPF , UEC , US ) . Distribution and habitat: — Brasil (southwestern Minas Gerais , endemic of the Serra da Canastra). Campo rupestre ; 800–1400 m . Taxonomic Notes: —Similar to H. ekmaniana : see that species for a discussion of the differences. Representative specimens: — BRAZIL . Minas Gerais : Alpinópolis , Furnas , 25 July 1972 , L . Emygdio et al. 3606 ( NY , R ); Capitólio , Represa de Furnas , estrada Furnas – Capitólio , 13 February 1998 , R . Goldenberg et al. 496 ( HUFU , UEC ); São Roque de Minas , P . N . da Serra da Canastra , morro atrás do Centro de Visitantes , 15 May 2007 , B . Loeuille et al. 266 ( SPF ). IX. Hololepis Candolle (1810: 155 , 189). Type :— Hololepis pedunculata (DC. ex Pers.) DC . ( Fig. 19 B , 20 A ). Shrubs or trees; stems branched. Indumentum pubescent composed of inverted Y-shaped trichomes. Leaves alternate, petiolate, sheathless, blade coriaceous, discolorous, margin entire, flat (not revolute), venation eucamptodromous. Inflorescence an axillary, pedunculate, solitary capitulum. Capitulum pedunculate, subinvolucral bracts foliaceous, trinerved.Involucre campanulate; phyllaries 4–5-seriate, weakly imbricate, persistent, pubescent; receptacle fimbrillate. Florets 30–40; corolla purple, tube shorter than limb; corolla lobes with laticifers, pubescent; anthers calcarate; style lacking basal node. Cypsela cylindrical, pubescent; carpopodium prominent; pappus biseriate, deciduous, subpaleaceous, stramineous or reddish, outer series shorter than inner series. Chromosome number: unknown. Taxonomic notes: —A genus of two species, easily recognized by the subinvolucral trinerved bracts.