Lepidaploa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical parts of the Western Hemisphere.Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 66-67 in FrenchRobinson, H. 1995. New combinations and new species in American Vernonieae. Phytologia 78:384-399Robinson, 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.
Species 156 species are accepted.
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