Espeletia grisea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Espeletia grisea Standl., Amer. J. Bot. 2: 477–478 (1915)

Typus: A. Jahn 157 (in flower, January 1911; Holotypus: US [US00132215 (602351)^{(CRIA, GBIF, JSTOR)}]; US [US00132216 (602352)^{(CRIA, GBIF, JSTOR)}, caudex and basal tuft of leaves, specified as 'Additional material' in the protologue, while annotated as 'Holotypus (Part 2)' by J. Cuatrecasas in 1979]).
Type locality: Venezuela. State of Mérida: Sierra Nevada de Mérida, at an altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 meters.

Homotypic
- Ruilopezia grisea (Standl.) Cuatrec., Phytologia 35(1): 52 (1976); not accepted by Mavárez (2019) [cited as Espeletia grisea]

Native distribution areas:
Southern America Northern South America Venezuela. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Cuatrecasas, J. 1976. A new subtribe in the Heliantheae (Compositae): Espeletiinae. Phytologia 35(1): 43–61. BHL. Reference page.
Diazgranados, M. 2012. A nomenclator for the frailejones (Espeletiinae Cuatrec., Asteraceae). PhytoKeys 16: 1–52. DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.16.3186 Reference page. [see page 40 (as Ruilopezia grisea)]
Luteyn, J.L. 1999. Páramos: a checklist of plant diversity, geographical distribution, and botanical literature. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 84: viii–xv, 1–278. Issuu . Reference page. [see page 96 (as Ruilopezia grisea)]
Mavárez, J. 2019. A taxonomic revision of Espeletia (Asteraceae). The Venezuelan radiation. Harvard Papers in Botany 24(2): 131–244. DOI: 10.3100/hpib.v24iss2.2019.n8 ResearchGate PDF. Reference page. [see pages 174–176]
Smith, A.C. & Koch, M.F. 1935. The genus Espeletia: a study in phylogenetic taxonomy. Brittonia 1(7): 479–530, tt. DOI: 10.2307/2804673 (via Wikipedia Library ). JSTOR . Reference page. [see pages 524–525]

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2024. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Espeletia grisea. Accessed: 2024 March 7.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Espeletia grisea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 March 7. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2024. Espeletia grisea. Published online. Accessed: 7 March 2024. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2024. Espeletia grisea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 7 March 2024. Reference page.