Lepidaploa arbuscula (Less.) H. Rob.

Vernonia obcordata Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 1S7. 1906
Stems shrubby, 6-9 dm. tall, with stiff crowded branches, strongly angled and tomentose when young, becoming terete and glabrous with age; leaves numerous, crowded on the young shoots, the blades broadly obcordate, S— 15 mm. long, 7-15 mm. wide, entire, gradually narrowed at the base, closely gray-tomentose on both sides; petioles 5-8 mm. long; heads few, single
or in cymes of 2-4, sessile among the upper leaves, 8-13-flowered; involucre campanulate,
4—5 mm. high, the outer scales ovate, acute, tomentose, the inner ovate-lanceolate, sharply
acute, pubescent, especially at the base and margin and densely resinous-glandular; achenes
hirsute, 2 mm. long; pappus yellow, the bristles 4-5 mm. long, the scales fimbriate-eiliate,
narrow, about 0.7 mm. long.
Type locality: Little Inagua. Distribution: Little Inagua, Bahama Islands.

Vernonia arbuscula Less. Linnaea 6: 664. 1831
Vernonia arclata Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 185. 1906.
Stems shrubby, 3-20 dm. tall, with numerous crowded branches, thinly tomentose or
glabrate; leaves numerous, spreading or somewhat reflexed, the blades broadly elliptic to
obovate-oblong, 10-18 mm. long, 6-11 mm. wide, acute or mucronate, entire, acute or obtuse
at the base, glabrate above, brown-tomentose beneath; petioles tomentose, 3-7 mm. long;
inflorescence flattened, of several short, leafy, irregular, scorpioid cymes bearing each 1-5
sessile or short-peduncled 13-flowered heads; involucre campanulate, 4-5 mm. high; scales
irregularly imbricate in a few series, lanceolate, acute, tomentose, the inner ones sparsely
but conspicuously resinous; achenes pubescent, 2.5 mm. long; pappus nearly white, the
bristles 5 mm. long, the scales fimbriate-eiliate, very broad, 0.6-1 mm. long.
Type locality: Mauritius (error).
Distribution: New Providence and Andros islands, Bahama Islands.

Vernonia bahamensis Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 352. 1861
Cacalia bahamensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 969. 1891.
Stems shrubby, 2 m. high or more, repeatedly branched, thinly tomentose; leaves numerous, crowded, chiefly on the younger branches, the blades spatulate to oblanceolate or narrow !y obovate, 20-35 mm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, entire, rounded at the tip and varying from mucronate to slightly retuse, narrowed at base into margined petioles, tomentose on both sides, especially beneath; heads few, 1-5 in each cyme, sessile among the upper leaves, S-13-flowered; involucre campanulate, 3.5-5 mm. high, the scales loosely imbricate in few series, the inner ovate-lanceolate, sharply acute, white-tomentose, sometimes minutely resinous-glandular; achenes densely hirsute, 2-2.5 mm. long; pappus nearly white, the bristles 4-5 mm. long, the scales broad, fimbriate, 0.5-1 mm. long.
Type locality: Bahama Islands.
Distribution: Bahama Islands.

Lepidaploa arbuscula là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được (Less.) H.Rob. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1990.