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Desmanthodium congestum, a new species from Chiapas, Mexico, is described and illustrated. Its morphological features are clearly distinguishable from other species of the genus, so much so that this taxon forms a new subgenus withinDesmanthodium, subgenusMultiaggregata.
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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02821183.
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Arriagada, J.E., Stuessy, T.F. A new species and subgenus of Desmanthodium (Compositae, Helianheae) from southern Mexico. Brittonia 42, 283–285 (1990). https://doi.org/10.2307/2806818
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2806818