Fleischmannia pratensis (Klatt) R.M. King & H. Rob., Phytologia 19: 205. 1970

Robinson, Harold, 2015, The genus Fleischmannia in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay (Eupatorieae, Asteraceae), PhytoKeys 57, pp. 61-92 : 78-79

Fleischmannia pratensis (Klatt) R.M. King & H. Rob., Phytologia 19: 205. 1970

Eupatorium schiedeanum var. tomentosum Steetz in Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 146. 1854. Type: Panama: Chiriquí, Volcán Chiriquí, Seemann 1138 (holotype BM, photos MO, US).

Eupatorium schiedeanum var. capitatum Steetz in Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 146. 1854. Type: Panama: Chiriguí, Volcán Chiriquí, Seemann s.n. (holotype BM, photos MO, US).

Eupatorium pratense Klatt in T. Durand & Pittier, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 31: 193. 1892. Type: Costa Rica: Savanes Boruca, Dec. 1891, Pittier 4756 (lectotype US).

Eupatorium pacacanum Klatt, Leopoldina, Bot. Beibl. 3. 1895. Type: Costa Rica: clairières du Rodea de Pacaca, 1-2 Jan, 1891, Pittier 3324 (holotype BR, isotype GH).

Eupatorium roseum Klatt, Bull, Soc. Roy, Belgique 31: 194. 1892 [1903]. Type: Costa Rica: clairières du Rodea de Pacaca, 1-2 Jan, 1891, Pittier 3324 (holotype BR, isotype GH).

Fleischmannia croatii R.M. King & H. Rob., Phytologia 28: 76. 1974. Type: Panama, Chiriquí, vicinity of Las Nubes, 4.3 km NW of Río Chiriquí, Viejo, W of Cerro Punta, 2200 m, Croat 22300 (holotype MO).

Fleischmannia panamensis R.M. King & H. Rob., Phytologia 28: 80. 1974. Type: Panama, Coclé, near La Mesa, 11 Feb. 1971, Croat 13354 (holotype MO).

Description.

Erect to reclining perennial herbs or subshrubs, to 1.5 m tall; stems greenish to brown or reddish, densely puberulous to tomentellous; branches spreading at 25-90° angles. Leaves opposite; petioles slender to 3 cm long; leaf blades herbaceous, rhomboid to narrowly ovate, to 5.5 cm long, to 3.5 cm wide, base broadly acute to truncate, margins usually crenate-serrate with 6-12 teeth on each side, apex short-acute to scarcely acuminate, adaxially pilose to pilosulous, abaxially sparsely to rather densely pilosulous, puberulous on veins, with glandular dots; triplinervate from petiole. Inflorescence a broad laxly corymbiform panicle with densely corymbiform branches; peduncles 1-3 mm long, puberulous. Heads 5-6 mm high; involucral bracts 18-25 in 3-4 series, gradate, mostly short-acute, scarious margins narrow to rather broad distally. Florets 15-25 in a head; corollas lavender to white, 2.5-3.5 mm long, basal tube 0.5-1.0 mm long, throat 1.5-2.0 m long, lobes ca. 0.5 mm long, with short hairs outside, anther thecae 0.8-0.9 mm long, apical appendage ca. 0.25 mm long; style branches narrowly linear. Achenes 1.2-1.7 mm long, black with black ribs; setulae on ribs and distal faces; pappus white, of 20-30 scabrous contiguous bristles ca. 1.8-2.2 mm long.

Specimens seen.

Bolivia, Tipuani-Valley: Hacienda Casana, Bobuach de Abhänge, 1400 mm, 31 July 1922, O. Buchtien 7554 (US); Bolivia: Cochabamba, Prov. Narciso Campero Leyes, 12 km al NW de Novillero a Santiago, 18°17'S, 65°16'W, 2500 m, Bosque semideciduo, disturbado de 7 m de altura, en quebrada, con Anadenanthera , hierba 0.30 m, flores violetas, 17 June 1995, N. Kessler, J. Gonzales, K. Bach & S. Hohnwald 4613 (LPB, US); La Paz, Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885, H.H. Rusby 1608 (NY, US); La Paz, Abel Iturralde, along road between Tumupasa and San Jose de Uchupiamonas; NW of Tumupasa along slope leading up to Parque Nacional Madidi, 5.5-5.8 km above Jct to San Jose near Tumupasa, 15°45'S, 67°50'W, 830-850 m, 21 m tall, flowers lavender, 9 August 2000, T. Croat, A.C. Acebey & T. Kroemer 84384 (MO, US); La Paz, Nor Yungas, Region von Compatá, Hacienda "El Choro", an Wagen zw. Gebürch, 1700 m, Wird 1 m hoch, Blüten helllila aurz-Weiss, 5 July 1930, O. Buchtien 8209 (US); La Paz, Nor Yungas, 4.5 km below Yolosa, then 10 km W on road up the Río Huarinilla, 16°12'S, 67°50'W. 1450 m, heavily disturbed moist forest, mostly secondary growth, roadside; suffrutescent, 75 cm tall, flowers pale lavender, 19-20 Oct. 1983, J.C. Solomon 8514 (MO, US); La Paz, Nor Yungas, en rente de Santa Rosa, Valle del Río Unduavi, 1530 m, arroyo cerco del camino; arbusto 1.2 m, flor lila, 5 9 1987, E. Vargas & R. Seidel 457 (LPB, US); La Paz, Nor Yungas, Chairo, 16°13'S, 67°52'W, 1400 m; restos de Bosque monte. ano, abierto con mucha Inga adenophylla ; en la orilla alta de Río Huarinilla, hierba 1.8 m, flores moradas pequeñas, 19 June 1997, St. S. Beck 23001 (LPB, US); La Paz, Sud Yungas, etwa 5 Fahrkilometer ah der Strade von Chulumani Richtung Ocobaya, ca. 1500 m, Bluten hellblau, 16 May 1988, T. Feuerer & P. Franken 11741 (US).

This is what has been called Eupatorium pycnocephalum Less. by B.L. Robinson (1920). Also, Vargas & Seidel 457 has been previously misidentified as Fleischmannia tamboensis and Beck 23001 has been misdetermined as Fleischmannia yungasensis .