Dysaster cajamarcensis, a new shrubby genus and species of Astereae (Asteraceae) from Peru.
Dysaster cajamarcensis is a spreading broad-leaved shrub named as a new genus and species of the tribe Astereae subtribe Hinterhuberinae collected in northern Peru. It has bisexual disc florets, disc style branches with strong stigmatic lines and hairy appendages, compressed achenes in both ray and disc florets, and papyraceous involucral bracts.
Department of Botany, MRC 166, NMNH, P.O. Box 37012, Smithsonian, Washington, DC. 20013-7012.
Harold
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Robinson
Department of Botany, MRC 166, NMNH, P.O. Box 37012, Smithsonian, Washington, DC. 20013-7012.
Vicki
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Funk
Asteraceae; Astereae; Diplostephium; Hinterhuberinae; Peru