title: A new species of Coespeletia (Asteraceae, Millerieae) from Venezuela.
abstract: A new species of Coespeletia from the páramos of Mérida (Venezuela) is described here. This species, named Coespeletia palustris, is found in a few marshy areas of the páramo. It is closely related to C. moritziana, but differs from it in a smaller number of florets in the capitula, larger ray flowers with longer ligulae and longer linguiform appendages, smaller pollen grains, larger cypselae, ebracteate scapes, leaves and inflorescences with more whitish indumentum, larger leaf sheaths, and marshy habitat.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Botany, MRC 166, National Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 37012, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 20013-7012, United States.
authors.forename: Mauricio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diazgranados
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Botánica, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101A, Venezuela.
authors.forename: Gilberto
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morillo
keywords: Coespeletia; Compositae; Espeletiinae; Millerieae; Páramos; Venezuela; frailejón