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 1. Centratherum cardenasii Robinson (1980c: 444) . Type :— BOLIVIA . Santa Cruz : San Miserato–Chiquitos , 900 m , May 1966 , M. Cárdenas 6253 ( holotype : US [ US 00147163]; isotype : NY [ NY00951464 ]) . Distribution and habitat: — Bolivia ( Santa Cruz , only known from few collections of the Chiquitos area). Open grassland or cerrado; 500– 900 m . Taxonomic notes: —This species is easily recognized by the lack of pappus, T-shaped indument nearly hiding the glandular punctations and bases of leaves and phyllaries winged. Representative specimens: — BOLIVIA . Santa Cruz : Chiquitos , ca. 50 km NW of Roboré , 18°04’S , 60°5’W , 500 m , 6 February 1995 , J . R . Abbott & B . Mostacedo 16135 ( US ) ; ibid., 85–90 km W of Roboré on road to San José de Chiquitos , 700 m , 10 April 1998 , J . R . I . Wood & F . Mamami 13447 ( K , SPF ) .