Lepidonia alba (Asteraceae: Vernonieae: Leiboldiinae) a New Species from the State of Chiapas, Mexico

Rosario Redonda-Martínez; Esteban Manuel Martínez Salas

doi:10.1600/036364415X690157

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15 December 2015 Lepidonia alba (Asteraceae: Vernonieae: Leiboldiinae) a New Species from the State of Chiapas, Mexico

Rosario Redonda-Martínez, Esteban Manuel Martínez Salas

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Systematic Botany, 40(4):1137-1143 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1600/036364415X690157

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A new species, Lepidonia alba (Asteraceae, Vernonieae), of the state of Chiapas, Mexico is described. The new species is distinguished from the species Lepidonia salvinae, which is also distributed in this region, by the presence of white flowers, diversity of trichomes on the phyllaries, the presence of glands at the base of the cypsela and the microsculpture pattern of the outer surface of the cypsela.

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Rosario Redonda-Martínez and Esteban Manuel Martínez Salas "Lepidonia alba (Asteraceae: Vernonieae: Leiboldiinae) a New Species from the State of Chiapas, Mexico," Systematic Botany 40(4), 1137-1143, (15 December 2015). https://doi.org/10.1600/036364415X690157

Published: 15 December 2015

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