Lepidonia mexicana (Less.) H. Rob. & V. A. Funk

Vernonia mexicana Less. Linnaea 6: 680. 1831
Cacalia mexicana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 970. 1891.
? Vernonia Salvinae canescens Coult. Bot. Gaz. 16: 95. 1891.
Leiboldia mexicana Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 163. 1906.
Stems shrubby, ferruginous-tomentose; leaf-blades thin, broadly obovate, 20 cm. long,
15 cm. wide, abruptly short-acuminate, mucronulately serrulate, tapering regularly to the
base, dark-green and nearly glabrous above, thinly gray-tomentose beneath, with prominent
veins; heads few, large, many-flowered; involucre broadly hemispheric, 20 mm. high, 30 mm.
broad; scales thin and glabrous, the outer ovate, appressed at base, broadly rounded and
somewhat spreading above, the inner loosely imbricate, acute or subacute, the exposed portion
of the principal scales reticulately veined, 4-5 mm. wide; achenes glabrous; pappus pale-brown.
Type locality: Chiconquiaco [Veracruz]. Distribution: Southern Mexico.

Lepidonia mexicana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được (Less.) H.Rob. & V.A.Funk mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1987.