Lepidaploa pineticola (Gleason) H. Rob.

Vernonia pineticola Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard 4: 176. 1906. Stems clustered, 2-4 dm. high, softly and densely pubescent; leaves spreading or somewhat reflexed, the blades firm, ovate to broadly ovate-oblong, 3-4 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, obtuse or subacute, entire, rounded at the sessile base, essentially glabrous and very rugose or bullate above with deeply impressed veins, prominently veined and densely pale-brown-tomentose beneath; bracteal leaves similar, little reduced; heads solitary and sessile in the axils of the upper leaves, forming a leafy cyme; involucre broadly campanulate, 10-12 mm. high; scales all loose, erect or somewhat spreading, linear-subulate, tomentose near the base, glabrate toward the apex; achenes densely hirsute-pubescent, 2 mm. long; pappus nearly white, the bristles 6 mm. long, the scales erect, ciliate, 1-1.2 mm. long.
Type locality: Baracoa, Cuba.
Distribution: Cuba.