Liabum cubense Sch. Bip.

Liabum cubense Schultz-Bip. Jour. Bot. 1 : 236. 1863
A perennial with a rootstock; stem 4-7 dm. high, leafy towards the base; leaves either a few scattered pairs below and the rest congested at the end of the short main stem, or all near the base; petioles slightly connate at the base, winged, the wings conspicuous above and denticulate; blades ovate or oval, pinnately veined, acute at the apex, decurrent below, sinuate-dentate, 5-15 cm. long, hispid with flat hairs and when young slightly floccose above, white-tomentose beneath; peduncle 2-5 dm. long, floccose; heads few, irregularly cymosepaniculate; involucre 10-12 mm. high, 15-18 mm. broad, floccose below, puberulent above; bracts narrowly lanceolate, acute or the inner attenuate, in about 5 series, well imbricate and the outer gradually shorter; tube of the ray-corollas about 7 mm. long, the ligule 10-12 mm. long, about 0.5 mm. wide; corolla of the disk-flowers about 8 mm. long, similar to that of L. umbellatum; achenes hispid, fully 2 mm. long; inner pappus-bristles about 25, scabroushispidulous, about 8 mm. long, the outer ones very few and minute.
Type locality: Province of Santiago, Cuba. Distribution: Eastern Cuba and Hispa'niula.

Liabum cubense là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được Sch.Bip. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1863.