Ekmania lepidota (Griseb.) Gleason

Ekmania lepidota (Griseb.) Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 46:250. 1919.
Vernonia lepidota Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 145. 1866.
Stems ascending over bushes, 3 m. long, fulvous-lepidote; leaf-blades firm, ellipticoblong, 5-8 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, obtuse to subacute, entire, narrowed at the base, thinly silvery-lepidote above, densely fulvous-lepidote beneath, prominently veined; inflorescence a corymbiform cluster 5 cm. wide, freely branched with short angled branches; lower bracteal leaves petiolate, 10-13 mm. long, 1-nerved, the upper gradually reduced to short subterete lepidote scales 2 mm. long closely appressed to the involucre; heads (?)8-flowered; involucre broadly ovoid or subspheric, 3 mni. high; scales incurved, closely appressed in few series, boat-shaped, brown, acute, pubescent or scurfy on the back.
Type locality: Summit of El Yunque, near Baracoa, Cuba. Distribution: Cuba.