Willdenowia 36
Willdenowia – Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
ISSN 0511-9618
© 2006 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem.
Nordenstam, B.: Ignurbia, a new genus of the Asteraceae-Senecioneae from Hispaniola.
Willdenowia 36 (Special Issue): 463-468.
doi:10.3372/wi.36.36144
Abstract
The new genus Ignurbia of the Asteraceae tribe
Senecioneae is described from the island of Hispaniola in
the Caribbean. Its only species, I. constanzae, first
described by Ignatz Urban under Senecio, is illustrated. The
new genus is characterized by its herbaceous, suffruticose habit,
dissected leaves with a herbaceous texture, orange or dirty yellow
discoid capitula and styles with continuous stigmatic areas lacking
distinct sweeping-hairs. Possibly related genera are Odontocline
(Jamaica), Jessea (Costa Rica, Panama) and Talamancalia (Costa Rica,
Panama, Ecuador, Peru).
Key words:
angiosperms, Compositae, Senecio, generic taxonomy, Greater Antilles.
