Wedelia egleri (J.U.Santos) V.R.Bueno (2025:9)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Aspilia egleri J.U.Santos in Revista Brasil. Bot. 19: 99 (1996)
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: January 1947 (Bueno et al., 2025:9)
Rediscovered on: 26 November 2012 [by implication] (Almeida et al., 2015)
Previously known from a single specimen from Minas Gerais state collected in January 1947, a second specimen was collected in Bahia state 65 years later (Almeida et al., 2015), and was then locally rediscovered in Minas Gerais based upon a specimen collected on 29 March 2024 (Bueno et al., 2025).
Distribution & Habitat
Bahia & Minas Gerais, Brazil
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Santos, J. U. M. D. (1996). Aspilia Thou. (Asteraceae – Heliantheae). Novas espécies para o estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Botânica 19 (1): 87-103.
Other references:
Alves, M. and Roque, N. (2016). Flora of Bahia: Asteraceae – Tribe Heliantheae. Sitientibus série Ciências Biológicas 16. https://doi.org/10.13102/scb1127
Almeida, R., Alves, M., Santana, F. and Roque, N. (2015). New records of thirteen Asteraceae from state of Bahia, Brazil. Check List 11(1): 1-5. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.1.1524
Bueno, Vinícius Resende et al. (2025). Novelties for Wedelia (Asteraceae, Heliantheae) in Minas Gerais, Brazil: a new species and a rediscovery after over 70 years. Phytotaxa 722 (1): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.722.1.1
POWO. (2026). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 11 February 2026]