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Issue: Vol. 683 No. 3: 4 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-04
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.683.3.8
Page range: 273-280
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A new narrower circumscription and a nomenclatural synopsis for Calea subg. Meyeria (Asteraceae: Neurolaeneae)

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Laboratório de Sistemática Vascular, Prédio 43432, sala 107, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil. Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Departamento de Biologia, Rua Ceará, 1084, Umuarama, Uberlândia – MG, 38405-240, Brazil.
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí, Avenida Joaquim Manoel, s/n, Novo Horizonte, Valença do Piauí - PI, 64300-000, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Departamento de Biologia, Rua Ceará, 1084, Umuarama, Uberlândia – MG, 38405-240, Brazil
Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 1700 University Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76107-3400, Fort Worth, United States of America
Embrapa Clima Temperado, Rodovia BR 392, km 78, Caixa Postal 403, Pelotas, RS 96010-971, Brazil
Compositae Grasslands Heliantheae s.l. Neotropics Savannas Sellow Eudicots

Abstract

The studies on Calea subg. Meyeria (Neurolaeneae, Asteraceae), a group from open vegetation in Southeastern South America, recently resulted in the description of novel species and nothospecies. Continued progress on the nomenclatural and taxonomic studies of this subgenus is presented here. A comprehensive bibliography for species described in this section was compiled and revised to allow the proposition of nomenclatural changes. All type specimens were consulted either in person or using high-resolution digital images. Based on these efforts, we propose a narrower circumscription of Calea subg. Meyeria, altering the number of accepted taxa assigned to it from 15 to 9. The subgenus is here proposed to be characterized morphologically by shrubs with a cymose capitulescence, capitula with four or more foliaceous outer phyllaries and cypsela longer than the pappus. As here defined, it comprises eight species (C. funkiana, C. marginata, C. myrtifolia, C. parvifolia, C. phyllolepis, C. pruskiana, C. subintegerrima, and C. triantha) and one nothospecies (C. × parviantha). Altogether, we synonymize four names; propose lectotypifications for two names; recognize three new isolectotypes; and provide corrections for type specimen collection data from six taxa, including collector names, collection date, and locality.

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Bueno, V.R., Reis-Silva, G.A., Nakajima, J.N., Goste, M.R. & Heiden, G. (2025) A new narrower circumscription and a nomenclatural synopsis for Calea subg. Meyeria (Asteraceae: Neurolaeneae). Phytotaxa 683 (3): 273–280. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.683.3.8