Home at Last II: (Kunth) Zardini (Mutisieae, Asteraceae) is really a .

(Kunth) Zardini of the -complex (Mutisieae, Asteraceae/Compositae) is distributed in Ecuador and Peru. This perennial herb was first named as Kunth and was later recognised as (Kunth) Ferreyra. Now it is generally treated as (Kunth) Zardini but it has never been included in any section of . In this study, the position of is assessed based on morphology and a molecular phylogeny that includes and 28 other species from the -complex. Morphologically, bears leaves with the adaxial epidermal surface without stomates but with soft thin trichomes, bracteate scapes, trimorphic capitula and inner ray florets with the corolla shorter than the style. These characters suggest that the species is most closely related to rather than to or . Furthermore, the phylogenetic results based on two nuclear (ITS and ETS) and two chloroplast (L-F and L-32) sequences strongly support the placement of nested within . As both morphological characters and the molecular phylogenetic results support the transfer of to , this enigmatic taxon is recognised as (Kunth) X.-D. Xu & W. Zheng.