Eremosis angusta Gleason

Eremosis angusta Gleason, sp. nov
Stems shrubby, branched, closely and finely cinereous-tomentulose; leaf-blades thin, firm, elliptic-lanceolate, the largest 7 cm. long, 18 mm. wide, acute, entire, gradually narrowed to an acute base, minutely scabrous-puberulent above, thinly tomentulose and resinous beneath, with prominent veins; petioles tomentulose, 5-10 mm. long; inflorescence compact, hemispheric, 10 cm. broad, with tomentulose branches; heads 1-flowered, crowded, sessile or short-peduncled; involucre narrowly cylindric, 7-8 mm. high, straw-colored; outer scales thinly tomentose, broadly ovate to subrotund, obtuse or rounded, darker brown at tip, minutely cuspidate, with prominent midvein; inner scales prolonged, appressed, narrow, less than 1 mm. wide, acute, scarious-margined, sparsely tomentulose near the edge, minutely puberulent to almost glabrous on the back, the midvein prominent and extending into a mucro; achenes black, 2 mm. long, hirsute; pappus white, 6 mm. long, the outer series filiform, irregular in length.
Type collected at Gualan, Zacapa, Guatemala, alt. 125 meters, Kellerman 6132 (herb. Field Museum no. 195639).

Vernonia angusta là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được (Gleason) Standl. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1936.