Bartlettina R.M.King & H.Rob.
Perennial herbs woody toward base, or shrubs. Lvs opposite, petiolate, simple, entire to serrate. Infl. a lax corymb. Involucral bracts in 3-4 rows, unequal, mostly chartaceous. Receptacle convex or short-conic; scales 0, but short hairs present. Corolla tubular. Style base not swollen. Achenes ellipsoid-cylindric or obpyramidal, 5-angled, usually glabrous or hairy, rarely glandular; pappus of persistent scabrid hairs, with acute apical cells.
20 spp., tropical America. Naturalised sp. 1.
King, R.M. and Robinson, H., Phytologia 22 : 160-162 (1971), provided the new name Bartlettina for the genus they originally described as Neobartlettia (ibid 21 : 294-297) a later homonym of Neobartlettia Schltr. Bartlettina is a segregate from Eupatorium defined by a set of microcharacters.
