Lepidaploa sprengeliana (Sch. Bip.) H. Robinson

Vernonia sprengeliana Schultz-Bip. Jour. Bot. 1: 232. 1863
vStems shrubby, sparingly branched, cinereous-tomentose; leaf-blades heavy and rigid, narrowly oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 5-9 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, acute, entire or irregularly crenate, somewhat revolute, narrowed from the middle to a truncate or subcordate base, bullate and scabrous above, closely gray-tomentose beneath; petioles 1-2 mm. long; cymes few, crowded at the summit of the stem, simple or sparingly branched, 4-7 cm. long, bearing 4-12 heads; bracteal leaves resembling the cauline but smaller, the upper 1 cm. long or less; heads rather crowded, 13-18-flowered; involucre campanulate-eylindric, 8-10 mm. high; scales closely and regularly imbricate, purplish, the outer triangular, subulate or narrowly acuminate, the inner oblong, thinly strigose on the back and densely so at the rounded or apiculate tip; pappus pale sordid-brown, the bristles 8 mm. long, the scales 0.8-1 mm. long.
Type locality: Santo Domingo. Distribution: Hispaniola.