Wunderlichia Riedel ex Benth.
in Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. pl. 2: 489. 1873. TYPE: Wunderlichia mirabilis Riedel ex Baker (lectotype designated by Hind & Semir, 1998b). 76 of Figs. 75-76.
Etymology. Named in honor of Mr. Wunderlich, a collector of Russian and Asian flora in the 1830s (his main sets of duplicates are at K & LE), a contemporary of Riedel, and an author of one botanical paper in 1842.
Shrubs or small trees very stout, virgate, pyrrophytic. Leaves alternate, deciduous; commonly petiolate; blades ovate to orbicular, coriaceous, less commonly chartaceous, caducous, pinnately veined, margin entire, both surfaces densely tomentose to glabrate. Capitulescences monocephalous or two- to ten-headed, loosely to densely corymbose to racemose; capitula massive, short-pedunculate to sessile, homogamous, discoid; receptacle strongly paleate-setiferous to epaleate, paleae long-linear, flat; involucre multiseriate. Florets isomorphic, bisexual, corolla actinomorphic, tubular-campanulate, deeply five-lobed, lobes coiled; anthers exserted, apical appendages short-acuminate, tails smooth, free to often connate with the tails of adjacent stamens; style bilobed, dorsally papillose much below the bifurcation point. Cypselae glabrous, apically tomentose to densely tomentose throughout; pappus of many barbellate to plumose bristles, basally connate, deciduous as a ring, the innermost longer and flattened.
Pollen Description. Wunderlichia mirabilis (121 of Figs. 120-121) (Barroso & Maguire, 1973; Telleria et al., 2003). Pollen prolate, large size, tricolporate, exine Wunderlichia type. Pollen similar to that of Wunderlichia azulensis, Eurydochus bracteatus and Salcedoa mirabaliarum (see also Telleria, 2008).
Habitat and Distribution. The genus occurs in Brazil (states of Bahia, Espirito Santo, Goias, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro) and contains six species.
Species list
1. Wunderlichia azulensis Maguire & G. M. Barroso, Revista Brasil. Biol. 33: 402. 1973. TYPE: Brazil. State Minas Gerais: Pedra Azul, G. Mendes Magalhaes 12039 (holotype, NY!). Additional specimen examined: Brazil. State Minas Gerais: Mun. Pedra Azul, 10 km E da cidade na estrada para Almenara, R. M. Harley et al. 25209 (MO).
2. Wunderlichia bahiensis Maguire & G. M. Barroso, Revista Brasil. Biol. 33: 404. 1973. TYPE: Brazil. Bahia: entre Lencois e Itaberaba, E. Pereira 2063 (holotype, RB not seen). Additional specimen examined: Brazil. State Bahia: Rio das Contas, estrada para a cachoeira do Fraga, no Rio Brumado, a 3 km de Municipio de Rio de Contas, A. Furlan et al. 1703 (US).
3. Wunderlichia crulsiana Taub., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 21: 456. 1896. TYPE: Brazil. State Goias: Serra dos Veadeiros, Ule 28 (lectotype, designated by Barroso & Maguire, 1973: 403, PR not seen). Additional specimen examined: Brazil. State Goias: Chapada dos Veadeiros (near Alto Paraiso de Goias), J. A. Ratter et al. 2615 (MO).
4. Wunderlichia insignis Baill., Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 285. 1881. TYPE: Brazil. State Rio de Janeiro: Nova Friburgo, A. F. M. Glaziou 12060 (lectotype, designated by Barroso & Maguire, 1973: 404, PR not seen; isotype, NY!).
5. Wunderlichia mirabilis Riedel ex Baker, Fl. bras. 6: 343. 1884. TYPE: Brazil. State Minas Gerais: Serra da Caraya and Serra da Lapa, Riedel 493 (lectotype, designated by Hind & Semir, 1998b: 1011, K not seen). Additional specimens examined: Brazil. State Minas Gerais:...