Compilation
Vernonia suprafastigiata

 Deciduous shrub 0.15-4 m high, usually leafless when flowering; rootstock woody; stems green and shortly pubescent with T-shaped hairs, becoming purplish grey with pale lenticels. Leaves appearing after the flowers, petiolate, narrowly elliptic to obovate, to 8.5 cm long, to 3 cm wide, base cuneate, margins subentire or distally slightly serrate, apex acute or obtuse, subglabrous above, sparsely pubescent but glabrescent beneath; petiole 0.2-1 cm long. Capitula in numerous corymbiform cymes, on numerous abbreviated shoots axillary to previous year’s leaves; involucre obconic, 3-6 mm long; phyllaries in few series, with raised purple midrib, elliptic or lanceolate, rounded and mucronate or obtuse, scarious, thinly pubescent where exposed and ciliate and densely glandular distally, becoming caducous, 2.7-5 mm long. Florets 9-17 per capitulum; corolla purple or mauve, 6-8 mm long, lobes 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Achenes tapering to base, 3-4 mm long, 8-10-ribbed, puberulous and glandular; outer pappus of scale-like setae 0.8 mm long, inner pappus white, 5-8 mm long. Fig. 41/1-3.