Piptocarpha poeppigiana (DC.) Baker

Piptocarpha chontalensis Baker, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 6-:
132. 1873.
Piptocarpha costaricensis Klatt, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 31 1 : 184. 1892.
Stems shrubby, 6 m. high, faintly striate or terete, slightly ffcxuous, thinly cinereous-
tomentose; leaf-blades coriaceous, oblong-ovate to ovate, 10-18 cm. long, 4.5-10 cm. wide,
acute or abruptly short-acuminate, entire or remotely denticulate, obliquely and unequally
rounded at base, dark-green, glabrous and shining above, dull-green and closely cinereous-
tomentose beneath with stalked stellate hairs, on petioles 10-15 mm. long; bracteal leaves
similar but smaller; heads numerous, 6-flowered, crowded in axillary corymbiform clusters,
sessile in groups of 2 or 3 terminating tomentose peduncles; involucre ovoid, 3-4 mm. high;
scales closely imbricate, appressed, ovate, acute to obtuse or rounded, the outer tomentose,
the inner glabrous except at the tomentose tip, deciduous; achenes sharply 5-ribbed with 5
secondary less prominent ribs, 3 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; pappus white,
the inner bristles 6-7 mm. long, the outer bristles 1-2 mm. long, irregular, filiform.
Type locality: Chontales district, Nicaragua. Distribution: Central America.