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Issue: Vol. 230 No. 2: 8 October 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-10-08
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.230.2.6
Page range: 189–192
Abstract views: 16
PDF downloaded: 1

Hymenolepis glabra (Anthemideae, Asteraceae), a new species from the Little Karoo (South Africa)

Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, Cape Town, South Africa
Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
CapeNature, Private Bag X658, 6620, Oudtshoorn, South Africa Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, P.O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth 6031, South Africa
Athanasiinae Compositae Greater Cape Floristic Region Hymenolepis crithmifolia Hymenolepis indivisa quartsitic soil rare taxonomy South Africa Eudicots

Abstract

Hymenolepis glabra Magoswana & Magee (Asteraceae, tribe Anthemideae) is a new species from the Little Karoo, within the Greater Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, bringing the number of recognised species in the genus to nine. The species shares the glabrous involucre and open, doubly compound corymbs with H. crithmifolia and H. indivisa but is distinguished by the erect to suberect, 2- or 3-sect leaves, entire towards the synflorescence, and the complete lack of vestiture. The new species is described, and the existing key to the species is updated.