Lepidonia salvinae (Hemsl.) H. Rob. & V. A. Funk

Vernonia salvinae Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot
2: 73. 1881.
Cacalia Salvinae Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 970. 1891.
Leiboldia Salvinae Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Card. 4: 162. 1906.
Stems shrubby, densely and closely brown-tomentose, becoming glabrate in age; leafblades membranous, oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 10-25 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. wide, acuminate to an obtuse mucronate tip, entire or remotely denticulate, gradually narrowed below into petioles 1 cm. long, thinly and minutely papillose-pilose and glandular-punctate above, becoming nearly glabrous, thinly strigose and punctate on the surface beneath and conspicuously brown-strigose on the veins; heads 1-5, on peduncles 2-7 cm. long, many-flowered ; involucre broadly eampanulate or hemispheric, 12-15 mm. high; scales loosely imbricate, thin and membranous, the outer squarrose, purple-brown, broadly ovate and glabrous at the coriaceous appressed base, dilated above into a thin, ovate, acute, mucronate, pubescent, veiny tip, the inner oblong, barely dilated if at all into the triangular, ovate, mucronate, veiny tip; achenes black, glabrous; pappus pale-tawny, the bristles 5 mm. long, the scales subulate, very deciduous, 0.S-1.1 mm. long.
Type locality: Las Nubes, Cerro de Zunil, Guatemala, alt. 1300 meters. Distribution: Chiapas to Costa Rica.