Lepidaploa

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Asteraceae

• Scientific Name

  Lepidaploa

• Description

  Genus Description - Annual or perennial, pubescent, often glandular herbs to subshrubs (in ours); stems erect, often much-branched. Leaves simple, alternate, sessile or petiolate, pinnately veined. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, cymose, heads single or clustered, often subtended by bracteate leaves. Heads discoid, 8-35-flowered, sessile or nearly so; involucre bell-shaped, 3-6-seriate; involucral bracts persistent, graduated, lanceolate, the outer involucral bracts often spreading, slender with aristate apices, the inner involucral bracts commonly erect with acute apices; receptacle naked. Rowers bisexual; corollas actinomorphic, narrowly bell-shaped, commonly violet, often pubescent or glandular, especially so on the 5 elongate lobes; anthers spurred; styles hispidulous in upper half. Achenes angled, commonly 8-10-ribbed, generally pilose, often also glandular; pappus biseriate, persistent, the outer series of several free short squamellae, the inner series of numerous long capillary bristles.