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Most unsettling are the four rather similar genera included (with Struchium !) in subtribe Vernoniinae: Cyrtocymura [with the former Vernonia scorpioides (Lam.) Pers.], Eirmocephala (with Vernonia brachiata Benth. ex Oerst.), Lepidaploa [with Vernonia arborescens (L.) Sw., V. canescens Kunth, V. salzmannii DC., and V. tortuosa (L.) S. F. Blake], and Vernonanthura (with Vernonia deppeana Less. and V. patens Kunth). Less disturbing are the more obviously divergent Critoniopsis (with Vernonia triflosculosa Kunth), in subtribe Piptocarphinae, and Lepidonia (with Vernonia lankesteri S. F. Blake), in subtribe Leiboldiinae. [See The Cutting Edge 7(1): Jan. 2000, under "Robinson"]
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