Checklist of Bolivian Compositae - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Echetrosis pentasperma Phil., Anales Univ. Chile 43: 504 (1873)[Note: In a separately paginated
reprint/preprint in K this appeared on p. 28.] Type: ‗Se halla en la provincia de Mendoza de la Repöblica
Arjentina.‘ Pizarro (1960: 140) cited no material in SGO against this name.
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia (Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz), Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico,
Paraguay, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela, West Indies. Widely adventive in the Old World, including Africa
(Kenya), the Mascarenes, China, New Caledonia, etc.
Disturbed areas, roadsides, cultivated areas.
0–2000 m.
October–June, but potentially flowering throughout the year.
Vernacular name: ALTAMISA (Ariza Espinar, 2000: 68).
Bolivian citations by Rollins: ‗Coachabamba, Parodi 10223 (GH); same locality, Steinbach 3988 (GH); Santa
Cruz, Peredo s.n. (LIL); Buenavista, Santa Cruz, Steinbach 6344 (GH).
Parthenium lobatum Buckley, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad. 13: 457 (1861)[1862] = Parthenium hysterophorus L.
Parthenium matricaria Gesn. ex Rupr., Fl. Ingr. 1: 583 (1860), nom. illegit. = Tanacetum parthenium (L.)
Sch.Bip.
Parthenium pinnatifidum Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. 4: 278 (1812), nom. illegit., based on Parthenium hysterophorus
L. = Parthenium hysterophorus L.
Pascalia Orteg., Hort. Matr. Dec. 39, t. 4 (1797).
Pascalia baccata (L.) Spreng., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 3: 602 (1826) = Tilesia baccata (L.) Pruski
Pectidium Less., Linnaea 6(4): 706 (1831) = Pectis L.
Pectidopsis DC., Prodr. 5: 98 (1836) = Pectis L.
Pectis L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10: 1189, 1221, 1376 (1759).
Seala Adans., Fam. 2: 131 (1763). Lectotype (selected by Keil, 1975: 1225): Pectis carthusianorum Less.
Lorentea Lag., Gen. Sp. Pl. Nov. : 28 (1816), nom. illegit., non Lorentea Ortega (1797). Type: Lorentea prostrata
Lag. = Pectis prostrata Cav.
Cryptopetalon Cass., Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1817: 12 (1817). Note: no species originally included with the
genus, Cassini (1819) later describing the sole species. Type: Cryptopetalum ciliare Cass. = Pectis sessiliflora
(Less.) Sch.Bip. ex Rusby
Chthonia Cass., Dict. Sci. Nat. 9: 173 (1817). Type: Chthonia glaucescens Cass. = Pectis glaucescens (Cass.) D. J.
Keil
Lorentea Less., Linnaea 5(1): 135 (1830), nom. illegit., non Ortega (1797), nec Lagasca (1816). Type: Inula
saturejoides Mill. = Lorentea saturejoides (Mill.) DC. = Pectis saturejoides (Mill.) Sch.Bip.
Pectidium Less., Linnaea 6(4): 706 (1831). Type: Pectidium punctatum (Jacq.) Less. = Pectis punctata Jacq. =
Pectis linifolia L.
Helioreos Raf., Atlantic J. 1: 145 (1832). Type: Helioreos angustifolia (Torr.) Raf. = Pectis angustifolia Torr.
Pectidopsis DC., Prodr. 5: 98 (1836). Type: Pectidopsis angustifolia (Torr.) DC. = Pectis angustifolia Torr.
Tetracanthus A.Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Phys. Cuba, Bot. 11: 60 (1850). Type: Tetracanthus linearifolius A. Rich. =
Pectis linifolia L.
Cheilodiscus Triana, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., sér. 4, 9: 36 (1858). Type: Cheilodiscus littoralis Triana = Pectis
multiflosculosa (DC.) Sch.Bip.
Type: Pectis linifolia L. [See note by Jarvis, 2007: 729 on this selection by Keil in Taxon 34(2): 283, 1985].
Note: McVaugh (1984: 668) noted Britton & Brown‘s 1913 mechanical selection of P. ciliaris L.
References
Bautista, H. P. (1987). Pectis L. (Compositae-Tageteae). Espécies ocorrentes no Brasil. Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de
Janeiro 28: 5–107.
Keil, D. J. (1978). Revision of Pectis section Pectidium (Compositae: Tageteae). Rhodora 80(No. 822): 135–146.