Eremosis ovata Gleason

Eremosis ovata Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 40: 331. 1913
Vernonia Cleasoni S. F. Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 52: 17. 1917.
Stems shrubby, closely cinereous-pubescent, or tomentulose in the inflorescence; leafblades thick, firm, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 7-10 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, obtuse or subacute, entire, obtuse at base, dull-green and minutely and softly tomentulose above, densely cineroustomentose beneath, the veins elevated beneath and prominent; petioles 8-1.3 mm. long; inflorescence broadly pyramidal to hemispheric, about 2 dm. wide, the bracteal leaves elliptic, 2-6 cm. long; heads 3-flowered or more often 4-flowered, in small clusters, on peduncles 2-5 mm. long; involucre narrowly campanulate, straw-colored or pale-brown, 5-6 mm. high; outer scales short, broadly ovate, obtuse to subacute and apiculate, irregularly arachnoid or tomentose; inner scales oblong or ovate-oblong,"acute, glabrous or thinly arachnoid-tomentose at the tip; aehenes pale-brown, 3 mm. long, thinly hirsute; pappus white, 8 mm. long, the outer series of flattened bristles 1-2 mm. long.
Type locality: San Ramon, Durango. Distribution: Durango.