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Type: Article
Published: 2014-12-02
Page range: 215–221
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Typification of Pascalia glauca (Heliantheae, Asteraceae), with historical notes on that name

CIBIO (Instituto de la Biodiversidad) & dCARN, Universidad de Alicante, Apartado 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Av. Alemania 01090, 4810101 Temuco, Chile
Compositae Ecliptinae epitype Heliantheae lectotype nomenclature typification Wedelia glauca

Abstract

Pascalia glauca (Wedelia glauca) is a member of the Heliantheae-Ecliptinae (Asteraceae) native to South America, which however has become naturalized and invasive around the globe. After studying the protologue and the historical materials kept at Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (Spain), both a lectotype and an epitype are designated for P. glauca. Illustrations of living plants and the type material are presented, and some historical aspects involving the provenance of the original material are discussed to justify the type selection.