Calea lucidivenia var. punctata Maguire & Wurdack

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett & Wurdack, John J. 1957. Botany of the Phelps' Venezuelan Guayana Expeditions - II Uaipan-Tepui, Estado Bolivar. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 9 (3): 477-.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Calea lucidivenia var. punctata Maguire & Wurdack

  • Description

    Latin Diagnosis - Folia subtus et bracteae exteriores involucrorum prominenter punctato-glandularibus, alioque var. lucidiveniae similis.

  • Discussion

    TYPE: shrub with yellow flowers, very common on the slope and cumbre at 1900 m alt., Uaipan-tepuf, Bolivar, Venezuela, January 27, 1948, 336 (NY). Paratypes; Uaipan-tepui, 1800 m alt., Cardona 2032 (NY, US), Cerro Guaiquinima, Alto Rio Paragua, Guayana, alt. 1800 m; Cardona 957 (NY); Maguire, 32776, 32819, 32853, 33000-A.