Eremosis tomentosa (La Llave & Lex.) Gleason

Eremosis tomentosa (Llave & Lex.) Gleason, Bull N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 229. 1906.
Turpinia tomentosa Llave & Lex. Nov. Veg. Descr. 1: 24. 1824.
? Vernonia paniculata DC. Prodr. 5: 23. 1836.
Monosis tomentosa DC. Prodr. 5: 77. 1836.
Vernonia purpurascens Schultz-Bip.; Walp. Rep. 2: 945. 1843.
Vernonia Monosis Schultz-Bip. Linnaea 20: 507. 1847.
Cacalia tomentosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 969. 1891.
Cacalia paniculala Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 970. 1891.
Cacalia Monosis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 970. 1891.
Eremosis purpurascens Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 233. 1906.
Stems 1-3 m. high, closely and densely gray-tomentose; leaf-blades firm, oblong to oblongovate, 8-12 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, acute, entire, abruptly narrowed to truncate at base, pubescent or tomentulose above, densely gray-tomentose beneath, on short petioles; inflorescence hemispheric to pyramidal, leafy, 2-4 dm. long, 1-3 dm. wide; heads sessile or short-peduncled, 1-flowered; involucre cylindric or narrowly campanulate, 5-6 mm. high; outer scales ovate, acute, tomentose or ciliate, the inner oblong, acute, glabrous, or thinly pubescent and glandular at the margin and purple apex; achenes 3 mm. long, villous; pappus white, 6-7 mm. longthe outer series capillary, irregular.
Type locality: Pico de Quinceo, near Valladolid [Morelia, Michoacan]. Distribution: Jalisco and Guanajuato to Oaxaca.