Elephantopus pratensis Wright apud Sauvalle

Elephantopus pratensis C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci Habana6:177. 1869. Stems weak and slender, branching from the base, erect or ascending, 1-4 dm. high, pilose-pubescent, especially below, or becoming glabra te; leaf-blades flat, narrowly oblanceolate or nearly linear, 3-7 cm. long, 2-8 mm. wide, obtuse, entire, acuminate at base into a winged petiole, glabrous, or pilose on both sides, especially along the veins, resinous or glandularpunctate; glomerules few or solitary, on long peduncles, 5-8 mm. high; bracts 2 or 3, cordateorbicular with a prominent broad ligulate tip 5-10 mm. long; involucral scales 3-nerved, 4-5 mm. long, scarious at the margin, glabrous or minutely resinous-dotted ; achenes prominently ribbed, glabrous, 3 mm. long; pappus of 6-8 triangular-ovate, ciliate scales about 1 mm. long.
Type locality: Cuba. Distribution: Cuba and Isle of Pines.

Elephantopus pratensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được C.Wright mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1869.