Nesomia

Nesomia is a genus of flowering plants in the boneset tribe within the sunflower family.[1][2][3]

Nesomia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Subfamily:
Asteroideae
Supertribe:
Helianthodae
Tribe:
Eupatorieae
Genus:
Nesomia

Binomial name
Nesomia chiapensis

The genus is named in honor of American botanist Guy L. Nesom.[1]

Species

The only known species is Nesomia chiapensis, native to the State of Chiapas in southern Mexico.[4][5]

References
  1. Turner, Billie Lee. 1991. Phytologia 71(3): 208-211 diagnosis in Latin, description and commentary in English, full-page line drawing of Nesomia chiapensis
  2. D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.
  3. Tropicos, Nesomia B.L. Turner
  4. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  5. Turner, B. L. 1997. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 1 -- Eupatorieae. Phytologia Memoirs 11: i–iv, 1–272
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