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narrowly funnelform, not contracted, pilosu- 
lous, their achenes 2-2.5 mm. long, 3-angled 
on the high convex back, giving a 4-angled 
appearance, the margins bluntly lobed or 
toothed, the sides high tubercled. L. niihau- 
ensis differs in having the stems 1 m. tall; 
petioles 4-20 cm. long, slightly dilated at 
base and connate; blades broadly ovate, the 
margins doubly dentate-serrate; outer phyl- 
laries 5-6 mm. long; ray flowers 8-14, and the 
ray 8-9 mm. long, their achenes 2. 5-2. 8 mm. 
long, 1.2-1. 8 mm. wide, dark brown mottled 
with gray, broad cuneiform, the angles lacer- 
ate winged, the apex crateriform, the back 
hispidulous; disk corollas 4 mm. long, 
cuneate-cylindric, contracted near the base, 
glabrous, their achenes 2. 8-3. 2 mm. long, 
thin biconvex wedge-shaped, the margins 
with a thin wing that is entire, lacerate, or 
hispidulous ciliate lacerate, the sides tubercu- 
late hispidulous above but smooth towards 
the base. 
The specific epithet is coined from the 
name of the island; and the Latin place 
ending, -ensis, 
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