Lepidaploa desiliens (Gleason) H. Rob.

Vernonia desiliens Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 40:316. 1913.
Stems herbaceous, sparingly branched, 3-5 dm. tall, glabrous below, puberulent in the inflorescence; leaf-blades firm and coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 7-9 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, obtuse, entire or nearly so, obtuse or rounded at the base, rugose, glabrous, and shining above, closely gray-tomentose between the prominently reticulate veinlets; petioles 1-3 mm. long; cymes 1 or 2, spreading, 1-2 dm. long, fiexuous; bracteal leaves resembling the cauline but narrower in shape and gradually reduced in size, the uppermost oblonglinear, 2 cm. long; heads 21-flowered; involucre turbinate, thinly pubescent, 9-10 mm. high, the lower outer involucral scales short, minute, triangular, the inner scales much longer, linear-oblong, obtuse and apiculate; achenes strigose-pubescent; pappus light-brown, the bristles 6 mm. long, the scales conspicuously fimbriate, 0.7 mm. long.
Type locality: Arroyo del Medio, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Cuba.