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Much resembling W. scabra but the ray florets neuter and the leaves 

 markedly lacerate. 



Wedelia pimana might also be compared with W. chihuahuana but 

 the latter has recumbent or sprawling stems and a very different, merely 

 hispid vestiture. 



WEDELIA PURPUREA (Greenm.) B. L. Turner, Phytologia 65: 354. 

 1988. 



Aspilia purpurea Greenm. 

 Aspilia scabrida Brandegee 



Gue, Oax and Cps, pine-oak forets, 900-2100 m; Jun-Nov. 



Perennial, often suffruticose, herbs 15-50 cm high; stems prostrate 

 to recumbent, arising from an enlarged woody crown; leaves opposite 

 throughout, 2-4 cm long, 0.5-2.0 cm wide; petioles 1-4 mm long; blades 

 ovate-elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, 3 -nervate, sparsely to moderately 

 hispidulous beneath; heads radiate, single, terminal, the peduncles mostly 

 4-20 cm long; involucres campanulate, 2-3 seriate, 8-10 mm high, the 

 bracts subequal; rays 8-1 1, the ligules deep purple or maroon; disk florets 

 20-40; n = ca 12 or 13 pairs. 



Because of its purple rays, this species is readily distinguished from 

 most of the Wedelias in southern Mexico. 



WEDELIA ROSEI (Greenm.) McVaugh, Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 

 9:462. 1972. 

 Aspilia august a Blake 



Aspilia angustifolia A. Gray (not A. angustifolia Oliv. & Hiern.) 

 Aspilia rosei Greenm. 

 Aspilia xylopoda Greenm. 



Sin, Dur, Nay, Jal, s Zac and Agu, pine-oak woodlands, 800-2500 m; 

 Aug-Nov. 



