Piptolepis gardneri Baker (1873: 144)

Loeuille, Benoît, Semir, João & Pirani, José R., 2019, A synopsis of Lychnophorinae (Asteraceae: Vernonieae), Phytotaxa 398 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.398.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13713280
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scientific name	Piptolepis gardneri Baker (1873: 144)
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4. Piptolepis gardneri Baker (1873: 144) View in CoL . Type:— BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: in Serra do Itambé, August 1840, G. Gardner 4753 (lectotype: BM e! [ BM000939725 ], designated here; isolectotypes: K e! [ K000484688 , K000484689 ]).

Distribution and habitat: — Brazil (Minas Gerais, in the Serro region). Campo rupestre.

Taxonomic notes: —Known only from two collections. Baker (1873) understood the following commentary of Gardner (1846: 210) under the description of Vernonia burchelliana as a description of a new species (‘ V. oleaster Gardner’) based on the specimen Gardner 4753: ‘Allied to V. oleaster, DC. (Gardn. n. 4753); but sufficiently distinguished by its much larger leaves, fewer flowers, and longer and more acuminated involucral bracts’. It seems clear to us that Gardner presented a comparison between the new species ( V. burchelliana ) and Vernonia oleaster Mart. ex Candolle (1836: 17) ; in brief, the name ‘ Vernonia oleaster Gardner’ has not been validly published. Similar to Piptolepis monticola Loeuille in Loeuille et al. (2012b: 14), but the leaves of P. gardneri are linear-elliptic to linear-oblong (vs. oblanceolate, linear-obovate to spatulate) and not glaucous (vs. glaucous).

Representative specimens: — BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Serro, estrada Serro-Milho Verde, 9 km de Milho Verde, próximo a Três Barras, 18°31’55’’S, 43°26’47’’W, 982 m, 25 May 2009, M. M GoogleMaps . Saavedra et al. 877 (HUFU, K, RB, SPF).