Calea punctata Maguire & Wurdack

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett & Wurdack, John J. 1957. The Botany of the Guiana Highland -- Part II. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 9 (3): 235-392.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Calea punctata Maguire & Wurdack

  • Description

    Latin Diagnosis - Frutex moderate ramosus 1-3 m altus; ramulis 2-3 mm diam., sulcatis, primum tenus subpannoso-tomentosis, demum puberulis; foliis oppositis, laminis coriaceis, (2.5) 3 - 4 cm longis, (1.5) 2 - 4 (4.3) cm latis, orbiculatis a late ovatis, apice rotundato vel late obtuso, basi subcordata, truncata vel late obtusa, crasse crenatis, 3-5-plinervatis, venis prominentibus superficiebus amobobus, glabris, conspicuis puberulo-punctatis; petiolis 3-6 mm longis; capitulis terminalibus, majusculis, hemisphaericis, solitariis (vel aliquando 1-2 minoribus subterminalibus); bracteis subtendentibus 6-8 foliaribus ovatis ellipticis vel suborbicularibus, 6-10(18) mm longis; pedunculis 1-3 cm longis; phyllariis 2-3-seriatis, subaequalibus membranaceis, vittatis, late oblongis, 10-12 mm longis, late scario-marginatis; floribus ligulatis 20-25, ligulis linearioblongis, ca. 15 mm longis, luteis lucidis; floribus disci pernumerosis plus 100; paleis subtendentibus ca. 8 mm longis, induratis, valde 5-nervatis, erose 3-dentatis, lobo medio aristato 2 mm longo; corollis hypercrateriformibus, 5.5-6.0 mm longis, glabris; achaeniis prismaticis 4 (5)-angulatis ca. 3 mm longis, ad basim angustatis nigrescentibus glabris; annulo albo evidenti; pappo 1-seriato, squamulis ferme 8-10, 1.0 - 2.5 mm longis, rigidis, anguste lanceolatis peracutis.

  • Discussion

    (Fig. 70.)

    TYPE: shrub to 3 m high, little-branched or virgate, ligules 20-25, yellow, frequent on rocky places and in thickets, scrub savanna, near south rim, Left Fork Cano Yutaje, at 1350 m alt., Cerro Yutaje, Amazonas, Venezuela, February 1, 1953, Bassett Maguire & Celia K. Maguire 35196 (NY). Paratypes: Cerro Yutaje, Venezuela, Bassett Maguire & Celia K. Maguire 35213, 35067, 35268.

    C. punctata seems to have no immediate relatives, so far known, in the region of the Guayana sediments.