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Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-11
Page range: 175–179
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A new species of Senecio (Compositae, Senecioneae) from Ecuador

Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC, Plaza Murillo 2, 28014 Madrid, Spain. Herbario Nacional del Ecuador, Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales-Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Av. Río Coca E6-115 e Isla Fernandina, Quito, Ecuador.
Herbario Nacional del Ecuador, Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales-Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Av. Río Coca E6-115 e Isla Fernandina, Quito, Ecuador.
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01 Prague, Czech Republic.
Andes Asteraceae Ecuador Lasiocephalus páramos Eudicots

Abstract

Senecio alatopetiolatus is described as a new species from the Ecuadorian Andes on the basis of morphological characters. It is a subshrub characterized by having a scandent habit, discoid nodding capitula, middle cauline leaves with winged petioles, and an indumentum composed of glandular-hirsute and sericeous trichomes.