Ekmania is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It contains only one known species, Ekmania lepidota, endemic to Cuba.Gleason, Henry Allan. 1919. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 46: 250 descriptions in EnglishTropicos, Ekmania Gleason Robinson, H. 1999. Generic and subtribal classification of American Vernonieae. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 89: i–iii, 1–116.
The genus is named in honor of botanist Erik L. Ekman of Harvard University.
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