Summary
A new species of Neocuatrecasia (Compositae: Eupatorieae: Gyptidinae), N. epapposa, is described and illustrated from the Provincia Ñuflo de Chávez, Departmento de Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia. The new species is compared with the other low altitude species, N. tysonii, described from the Departmento de Beni, but differs primarily in its epappose achenes with setulae restricted to the stipitate base. It brings the number of herbaceous species in the genus to three, the total number of species to 13, and those known from Bolivia to 6 endemics.
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The author would like to thank John Wood for useful discussions concerning the lajas in the Departamento de Santa Cruz, as well acting as the author’s host during one of the first of the seasons’ collecting trips, in 2008, into the cerrados of Eastern Bolivia as part of the Darwin Initiative Project 16-004, ‘Conservation of the cerrados of eastern Bolivia’ [Conservación de los cerrados del oriente Boliviano] [http://www.darwincerradosdebolivia.org]. It is remarkable how useful grape juice and ice cream can be in stimulating discussion. I would also like to thank Margaret Tebbs for providing the black and white illustration.
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Hind, D.J.N. Neocuatrecasia epapposa (Compositae: Eupatorieae: Gyptidinae), a new species from a shield inselberg in the Departamento de Santa Cruz, Eastern Bolivia. Kew Bull 69, 9526 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-014-9526-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-014-9526-9