Lepidaploa vernicosa (Klatt) Pruski

Vernonia vernicosa Klatt, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg 35:294. 1896.
Vernonia vernicosa cornosa Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. 30: 93. 1903.
Stems shrubby, glabrous or thinly pubescent; leaf-blades coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 6-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acute or short-acuminate, entire, rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides, or rarely strigose-hirsute, pitted below; petioles 3-4 mm. long; upper leaves somewhat smaller; inflorescence loose, the cymes few, flexuous and spreading; bracteal leaves oblong, puberulent or pilose beneath, the largest 3 cm. long; heads about 50-flowerecL 1-2 cm. apart; involucre campanulate, 10 mm. high; scales regularly imbricate, firm or coriaceous, with yellow margin and tip, the outer narrowly triangular-subulate, glabrous or sparsely villous, with prominent midvein, the inner narrowly oblong, erect or barely spreading, glabrous, acute or subacute; achenes densely hirsute; pappus white, the bristles 7 mm. long, the scales conspicuous, 1 mm. long.
Type locality: Hanks of the Rio Varilla, Costa Rica. Distribution: Costa Rica.