Abstract
Baldesi, G., L. Pignotti & R.M. Baldini (2020). A new species of Pseudoblepharispermum (Asteraceae, Plucheeae) from NE Somalia. Candollea 75: 183–188. In English, English abstract.A new species of the genus Pseudoblepharispermum Lebrun & Stork (Asteraceae), up to now including Pseudoblepharispermum bremeri Lebrun & Stork and Pseudoblepharispermum mudugense Beentje & D.J.N. Hind, is described from two herbarium specimens housed at FT, collected in 1954 near the Indian Ocean coast of Bari Region, NE Somalia. These specimens formed an unidentified remaining part of a collection given to FT by the Italian geologists G. Merla, A. Azzaroli and V. Fois, who had led a geologic expedition in the former Migiurtinia (current Bari Region) on behalf of an Italian oil company. The new species Pseudoblepharispermum tuddense Baldesi & Pignotti is more similar to Pseudoblepharispermum bremeri from S Ethiopia than to Pseudoblepharispermum mudugense from central Somalia. Close examinations of macro- and micro-characters were carried out for the new species and compared with the features of Pseudoblepharispermum bremeri. Diagnostic characters are listed to support the taxonomic distinction between the new species and Pseudoblepharispermum bremeri.Received: May 9, 2020; Accepted: August 20, 2020; First published online: October 29, 2020
Highlights
The genus Pseudoblepharispermum Lebrun & Stork (Asteraceae) currently includes two species: P. bremeri Lebrun & Stork, and P. mudugense Beentje & D.J.N
The new species Pseudoblepharispermum tuddense Baldesi & Pignotti is more similar to Pseudoblepharispermum bremeri from S Ethiopia than to Pseudoblepharispermum mudugense from central Somalia
The first author, while going through the undetermined Somali collections of FT – still including unidentified collections of Merla, Azzaroli & Fois – came across two specimens, collected at different dates and at different localities, not far from each other of a suffruticose Asteraceae, which he ascribed to the genus Pseudoblepharispermum
Summary
The genus Pseudoblepharispermum Lebrun & Stork (Asteraceae) currently includes two species: P. bremeri Lebrun & Stork (type species of the genus and described from the Ogaden in southern Ethiopia; Lebrun et al, 1981), and P. mudugense Beentje & D.J.N. A new species of Pseudoblepharispermum (Asteraceae, Plucheeae) from NE Somalia.
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