Compilation
Vernonia doniana

Shrub of 6 ft.; branches terete, rusty-tomentose as well as the underside of leaf-midrib petioles and peduncles. Leaves elliptical, more or less acute at both ends, entire, glabrous except midrib, uppermost 4 in. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. on petiole of 1/3– 1/2 in. Capitula about 10-flowered, campanulate-turbinate, 1/4 in. diam., on pedicels equalling the involucre or subsessile in pedunculate racemes or dense few-headed clusters arranged alternately along the branches of the ample terminal panicle; bracts oblong or lanceolate, 1/8– 1/4 in. long. Scales of the involucre pluriseriate, from ovate to ovate-oblong, nearly glabrous, brown, darker towards tip; inner ones caducous, broadly pointed, divergent. Receptacle narrow flat glabrous. Corolla gradually narrowed; lobes linear-lanceolate. Anther-base rather obtuse, apex lanceolate, acute. Achenes 4–5-angled, with obscure intermediate ribs, glabrous. Pappus subscabrid, with few irregularly shorter setæ, pale tawny colour or white.