Lepidaploa (Cassini) Cassini (1825: 20)

Marques, Danilo, Farco, Gabriela Elizabeth, Nakajima, Jimi Naoki & Dematteis, Massimiliano, 2018, The genus Lepidaploa (Vernonieae, Asteraceae) in southern South America, Phytotaxa 362 (2), pp. 115-142 : 117

Lepidaploa (Cassini) Cassini (1825: 20) . Vernonia subgen. Lepidaploa Cassini (1817: 66) .

Type (designated by Robinson et al. (1980: 428)): Vernonia albicaulis Persoon [= Lepidaploa glabra (Willdenow) H. Rob. ]

Herbs,subshrubs or erect shrubs, rarely clambering( L.balansae , L.novarae and L.tarijensis ).Branches strigose,strigose-tomentose, pubescent, sericeous, setose or velutinous. Leaves distichous, rarely spirally alternate ( L. pseudomuricata ), cauline or rarely basal and cauline ( L. psilostachya ), petiolate or sessile; blade membranous, chartaceous, membranouscoriaceous, smooth or rugose, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, oval-lanceolate, oval, ovate-lanceolate, apex apiculate, acute, caudate, margins entire or denticulate, rarely serrulate, sinuate or revolute ( L. balansae , L. decumbens and L. psilostachya ), base attenuate, cuneate, adaxial surface strigose, strigose-tomentose, glabrous, pubescent, abaxial surface strigose, glabrous, incanous, pubescent, tomentose, velutinous, venation brochidodromous, camptodromous, camptodromous-eucamptodromous, eucamptodromous, eucamptodromous-brochidodromous, eucamptodromous-reticulodromous. Capitulescence seriate-cymose with capitula sessile, rarely paniculiform; axis strigose-tomentose, glabrous or glabrescent, tomentose-velutinous, velutinous, villous, whitish, gold, ferruginous, gray, brown, green or yellowish-green. Involucre campanulate, rarely turbinate ( L. balansae ); phyllaries 4–6-seriate, yellowish, chestnut, brown, reddish, greenish, greenish with blackened apex, scarious, membranaceous, strigose, strigose-tomentose, glabrous, pubescente, tomentose, villous; outer elliptic-lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, ovate, oval-lanceolate, apex apiculate, rarely aristate ( L. setososquamosa ) or apiculate-recurved ( L. decumbens ); inner elliptic–lanceolate, lanceolate, apex acute, acute-apiculate, apiculate, rarely aristate ( L. setososquamosa ) or apiculate-recurved ( L. decumbens ), obtuse to rotund. Florets 10–40, corolla white, lilac, pink, violet, tube glabrous, lobes lanceolate, apex glandular, setose or setose-glandular; apical anther appendages acute, obovate or obtuse, rarely with glandular trichomes ( L. pseudomuricata ), base obtuse or sagittate; basal stylar node enlarged, rarely narrow ( L. balansae and L. pseudomuricata ). Cypsela turbinate, obconic, velutinous, setose, sericeous-glandular ( L. setososquamosa ); carpopodium annular, idioblasts lacking or present. Pappus 2-seriate, white or beige, rarely grayish, brown or chestnut ( L. novarae , L. balansae and L. eriolepis ).