Lachnorhiza piloselloides A. Rich.

Lachnorhiza piloselloides A. Rich.; Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 34. 1850
Lachnorrhiza asteroides Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 152. 1866.
1'ernonia piloselloides Maza. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 19: 269. 1890.
Vernonia piloselloides asteroides Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 19: 269. 1890.
Leaf -blades linear-spatulate to oblong-spatulate, 5-14 cm. long including the petiole, 1-2 cm. wide, acute or obtuse, entire, gradually narrowed below into a margined pubescent petiole, essentially glabrous on both sides and more or less glandular-dotted, the lateral veins obscure; scape erect, puberulent, 15-40 cm. high, bearing a few subulate bracts; involucre campanulate, 8 mm. high; scales all erect, loosely imbricate in a few series, pubescent and glandular on the back, the outer triangular-lanceolate, the inner narrowly oblong to oblonglanceolate, acute; achenes 4-5 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so on the ribs, densely resinous in the shallow furrows; pappus tawny, 7 mm. long.
Type locality: Isle of Pines. Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines.