Taxonomic revision of the Andean genus Xenophyllum (Compositae, Senecioneae)
Author
Calvo, Joel
Instituto de Geografia, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Geografia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Avenida Brasil 2241, 2362807 Valparaiso, Chile
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2340-7666
calvocasas@gmail.com
Author
Moreira-Munoz, Andres
Instituto de Geografia, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Geografia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Avenida Brasil 2241, 2362807 Valparaiso, Chile
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9136-1391
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Xenophyllum crassum (S.F.Blake) V.A.Funk, Novon 7(3): 239. 1997.
Werneria crassa
S.F.Blake, J. Washington Acad. Sci. 18: 495. 1928. Type. Colombia. Caldas:
paramo
del
Quindio
, 3700-4200 m, 15/20 Aug 1922,
F.W. Pennell & T.E. Hazen 10031
(lectotype: K-000527739 (digital image!), designated by
Funk (1997a
: 239); isolectotypes: GH s.n.!, NY s.n.!).
Description.
Suffruticose plant, forming dense mats or hummocks, with rhizome-like stems up to 17 cm long covered with matted lanate indumentum and leaf bases, rather erect, simple or branched from the base.
Stems
1.5-4 cm tall (aerial part), lanate.
Leaves
stellate-imbricate, extending into a sheath-like base that bears long silky trichomes, usually with the leaf lamina spreading at nearly 90° from the sheath-like base; leaf laminas 6.5-27.6
x
1.2-2.2 mm, linear, obtuse, usually callous-like tipped at the apex, entire, flat to elliptical in cross section, glabrous, 1-nerved above, 1-nerved beneath, fleshy, matte or shiny.
Capitula
radiate, erect, sessile to subsessile (rarely with a short peduncle up to 8 mm long).
Involucres
10.2-19.7
x
7.8-15.8 mm, cupuliform; involucral bracts 11 to 21, 6-14.9
x
1.6-2.2 mm, rather acute at the apex, greenish to dark-purplish.
Ray florets
13 to 21; corollas 13-19.7
x
1.7-3.4 mm, 4 to 6-veined, subentire to 3-toothed at the apex, conspicuously surpassing the involucre, white.
Disc florets
50 to 95; corollas 6.6-8.1 mm long, yellow; style branches truncate with a crown of sweeping trichomes, yellowish, purple-tipped.
Achenes
2.6-4
x
0.8-1 mm, cylindrical, 6 to 8-ribbed, glabrous; pappus 7.8-19 mm long, barbellate, whitish. Chromosome number unknown.
Notes.
Funk (1997a)
stated that the holotype of the name
Werneria crassa
S.F.Blake (US-1141291) may had been destroyed while on loan to B, and accordingly, she designated the duplicate at K as the lectotype (
Turland et al. 2018
, ICN Art. 9.3).