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Lepidaploa

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image = Flickr - João de Deus Medeiros - Lepidaploa cotoneaster.jpg

|image_caption = Lepidaploa cotoneaster

|taxon = Lepidaploa

|authority = (Cass.) Cass.

|type_species = Vernonia albicaulislectotype designated by Robinson, Bohlmann & King, Phytologia 46(7): 428 (1980)[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2744891 Tropicos, Vernonia subgen. Lepidaploa Cass.]

|type_species_authority = Vahl ex Pers.

|synonyms_ref = [http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/default.aspx?Page=NameDetails&TabNum=0&NameId=48a6d691-c753-435b-9a60-98086bcff8db Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20141213133719/http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/default.aspx?Page=NameDetails&TabNum=0&NameId=48a6d691-c753-435b-9a60-98086bcff8db |date=2014-12-13 }}

|synonyms =

  • Vernonia subg. Lepidaploa Cass.
  • Flustula Raf.
  • Vernonia sect. Lepidaploa (Cass.) DC.

}}

Lepidaploa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical parts of the Western Hemisphere.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4439545#page/68/mode/1up Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 66-67] in French[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12986021#page/70/mode/1up Robinson, H. 1995. New combinations and new species in American Vernonieae. Phytologia 78:384-399][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34591938#page/484/mode/1up Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1990. Studies in the Lepidaploa complex, (Vernonieae:Asteraceae), VII: The genus Lepidaploa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(2): 464-498.]

It is a relatively large genus, formerly subsumed in the genus Vernonia.{{Cite book |author=Bruce A. Bohm & Tod F. Stuessy |year=2001 |title=Flavonoids of the Sunflower Family (Asteraceae) |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-211-83479-4 |chapter=Flavonoids of Vernonieae and Liabeae |pages=360–368 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-d8yb_8F320C&pg=PA364}}

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Category:Asteraceae genera

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