Liabum crispum Sch. Bip.

Liabum crispum Schultz-Bip. Jour. Bot. 1: 236. 1863
A perennial, 4-6 dm. high, leafy below; stem floccose; leaves sometimes crowded; petioles 3-12 cm. long, dilated at the base, more or less winged above; blades 5-20 cm. long, ovate or oval, rather permanently floccose above, densely white-tomentose beneath, denticulate, acute; main peduncle 1-3 dm. long; inflorescence corymbose or subumbellate; individual peduncles 3-8 cm. long; involucre broadly campanulate, fully 1 cm. high and 1—1.5 cm. broad; bracts more or less floccose, all narrowly lanceolate, the inner caudate-attenuate, fully as long as or a little exceeding the disk; ligules about 6 mm. long, very narrow; corolla of the disk-flowers about 8 mm. long, the tube slender, the throat narrowly funnelform; achenes scarcely 2 mm. long, hispidulous; inner pappus-bristles about 6 mm. long.
Type locality: [Cuba.) Distribution: Cuba and Hispaniola.