BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: 3.5 km by road s.-w. of Rio Jequiti and Mendanha, 14 Apr 1973 (fl), W. R. Anderson 8902. — Holotypus, UB; isotypi, CEPEC, F, K, MBM, MICH, NY (2 sheets), RB, US. FIG. 5

Slender but stiffly branching, microphyllidious shrubs 1-2 m, appearing glabrous throughout but microscopically puberulent on some new growth and some lfts microscopically ciliolate, the burnished red- brown homotinous branchlets becoming fuscous lamellate, the narrow multifoliolate pinnae stiffly widely divaricate from lf-stks, the closely imbricate, thick-textured lfts lustrous dark green above, paler dull beneath, the proportionately large, umbelliform capitula borne singly or rarely geminate on lateral brachyblasts, subtended either by a developed if or by efoliate stipules. Stipules firm, subulate from triangular base, mostly 1.5-3.5 mm, 3-11-nerved, persistent but the tips often blanched and fragile in age. Lf-formula iii-v/42-64; lf-stks 1.5—4.5 cm, the petiole 5-14 mm, the longer interpinnal segments 5-11 mm, the shallow ventral groove interrupted at insertion of pinnae by dilated, shallow-cupulate sockets; pinnae randomly graduated or sub-equilong, bulbously dilated at base, the longer ones 2.5-4.5(-5.5) cm, the longer interfoliolar segments 0.35-0.6 mm; lfts subequilong, subsessile, the pulvinule ±0.15 mm, the blades linear or linear-oblong from bluntly auriculate base, obtuse, the longer ones 3-5 x 0.5-0.7 mm, 4—7 times as long as wide; midrib subcentric, simple or faintly pinnate, a posterior primary vein sometimes barely perceptible dorsally. Peduncles very slender 20-38 x 0.4-0.5 mm, ebracteate; capitula 11-20-fld, the clavate receptacle 1.5-2.5 mm; floral bracts membranous oblanceolate 1 mm or less, absent from some distal fls; pedicels 1.5-4 mm; fls homomorphic, the reddish perianth glabrous except for sometimes microscopically ciliolate calyx-teeth; calyx campanulate, bluntly 5-angulate 5-nerved, 1.8-2.3 mm, the broadly ovate teeth 0.4-0.9 mm; corolla 5-6.5 mm, the lobes 1.9-2.3 mm, recurved at tip; androecium 28-44-merous, 18-28 mm, the filaments uniformly red, the stemonozone 1-1.3 mm, the tube 3.2-4.5 mm, scarcely thickened internally at base; ovary substipitate, glabrous. Pod (one seen) in profile 6.5 x 0.7 cm, 7-seeded, the sutural ribs in dorsal view ±1.2 mm wide, the recessed valves lustrous castaneous, finely transverse- venulose, pilosulous overall (but more densely over seeds) with straight white hairs ±0.5-1 mm; ripe seeds not seen.

On quartzite outcrops, 800-880 m, along rio Jequiti e. and n.-e. of Diamantina in centr. Minas Gerais, Brazil. — Fl. III-V, VIII-IX.