Vernonanthura tuerckheimii (Urb.) H. Rob.

Vernonia tuerckheimii Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 421. 1912
Stems shrubby, erect, 1-1.5 m. tall, freely branched above, thinly and closely canescent; leaf-blades firm and shining, obovate to subrotund, 3-10 mm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, acute, entire, abruptly narrowed at base, impressed-punctate and minutely puberulent above, very closely and finely tomentulose beneath; petioles 1-2 mm. long; heads about 11-flowered, crowded in subcapitate clusters of 2-8 at the ends of the branches and forming a large compound inflorescence; involucre narrowly campanulate to turbinate, 7 mm. high, narrowed at the base, the outer scales ovate, subacute, glabrous or nearly so, the inner oblong, obtuse or acute, purple at the glabrous tip, puberulent and glandular below; achenes pale-brown, glabrous and glandular, 2.5 mm. long; pappus tawny tinged with rose, the bristles 6 mm. long, the scales narrow, 0.6 mm. long.
Type locality: Near Constanza, Santo Domingo, alt. 1250 meters. Distribution: Santo Domingo.