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Monotypic Asteraceae genera

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Piora
Piora is a genus of Papuasian plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. The only known species is Piora ericoides, which is native to the island of New Guinea.
Chondropyxis
Chondropyxis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing the single species Chondropyxis halophila. It is endemic to Australia, where it is distributed in Western Australia and South Australia. Its common name is salt button-daisy.
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Brachionostylum
Brachionostylum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, containing the single species Brachionostylum pullei. It is endemic to New Guinea.
Lagoseriopsis
Lagoseriopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. The only species is Lagoseriopsis popovii.
Cephalosorus
Cephalosorus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Phitosia
Phitosia is a genus of Greek plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.
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Rhamphogyne
Rhamphogyne is a genus of plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.
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Quinqueremulus
Quinqueremulus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Neurolakis
Neurolakis is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Vernonieae within the family Asteraceae.
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Burkartia
Burkartia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing the single species Burkartia lanigera. It is endemic to southern Argentina (Provinces of Chubut, Rio Negro, Santa Cruz).
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Lemooria
Lemooria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, first described as a genus in 1989.
Triplocephalum
Triplocephalum is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae.
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Rainiera
Rainiera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae. The single species, Rainiera stricta , is endemic to the northwestern United States (Oregon and Washington). The genus is part of the tribe Senecioneae, and appears to be most closely related to Luina, another genus of northwestern North America, in which it was once placed. Rainiera stricta is of conservation concern, with a G2G3 ranking from NatureServe, and is considered to be globally imperiled. It is known by the common name false silverback.
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Delamerea
Delamerea is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
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Mtonia
Mtonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. The only species is Mtonia glandulifera.
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Goniocaulon
Goniocaulon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Polycalymma
Polycalymma stuartii, the poached egg daisy, is an Australian daisy found abundantly on sand plains and dunefields. Its common name is derived from the poached egg-like appearance of its white flower and yellow centre. It is the only known species of the genus Polycalymma; a member of the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae.
Dielitzia
Dielitzia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described as a genus in 1989 by Philip Sydney Short.
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Phacellothrix
Phacellothrix is a genus of flowering plants in the pussy's-toes tribe within the daisy family.
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Austrosynotis
Austrosynotis is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
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Welwitschiella
Welwitschiella is a genus of African plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.
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Ianthopappus
Ianthopappus is a genus of South American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Thespidium
Thespidium is a genus of Australian plants in the daisy family.
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Tietkensia
Tietkensia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described as a genus in 1990.
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Semiria
Semiria is a genus of plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.
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Centaurothamnus
Centaurothamnus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Decastylocarpus
Decastylocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Oaxacania
Oaxacania is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Eastwoodia
Eastwoodia is a North American genus of plants in the family Asteraceae. It contains the single species Eastwoodia elegans, a flower known by the common name yellow mock aster or yellow aster. It is endemic to California. This plant is found only on the grasslands and hillsides of central California, from the Bay Area south to the Tehachapis.
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Planea
Planea is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae. The only known species is Planea schlechteri, a rare and threatened species known from only a single population in Western Cape Province in South Africa.
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Phaenocoma
Phaenocoma is a genus of South African plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae.
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Femeniasia
Femeniasia balearica is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and it is the only species in the genus Femeniasia.
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Gladiopappus
Gladiopappus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Rugelia
Rugelia nudicaulis ('''Rugel's Indian plantain or Rugels ragwort), the sole species of the genus Rugelia''', blooms in summer. It is a wildflower endemic to higher elevations in the Great Smoky Mountains. It is a rare species in Tennessee. Genetic diversity in this plant, assessed using allozymes, is so low that the species may not survive changing environmental conditions. Both the scientific name and the common names honor Ferdinand Rugel, a botanist and plant collector who collected plant specimens throughout the southeastern United States during the period 1840–1848.
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Lamprocephalus
Lamprocephalus is a genus of plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family.
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Chrysoma
Chrysoma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Sarcanthemum
Sarcanthemum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. The only species is Sarcanthemum coronopus.
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Tourneuxia
Tourneuxia is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.
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Lorentzianthus
Lorentzianthus is a monotypic genus of South American flowering plants in the boneset tribe within the sunflower family. The only known species is '''Lorentzianthus viscidus,''' native to Bolivia and Argentina.
Dolichothrix
Dolichothrix is a genus of flowering plants in the family of Asteraceae.
Hecastocleis
Hecastocleis is a genus of low thorny shrubs with stiff branches, assigned to the daisy family. At the tip of each of the branches, inflorescences are subtended by oval, thorny, whitish to greenish bracts that enclose several flower heads which each contain only one pinkish bud, opening into a white corolla. It contains but one species, Hecastocleis shockleyi, the only representative of the tribe Hecastocleideae, and of the subfamily Hecastocleidoideae. Its vernacular name is prickleleaf. It is confined to the southwestern United States.
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Gypothamnium
Gypothamnium is a genus of South American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Ochrocephala
Ochrocephala is a genus of Ethiopian flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the daisy family Asteraceae. Its only known species is '''Ochrocephala imatongensis,''' native to Ethiopia.
Hughesia
Hughesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Brintonia
Brintonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, containing the single species Brintonia discoidea, named for Jeremiah Bernard Brinton. It is known commonly as the rayless mock goldenrod. It is native to the southeastern United States, where it is distributed in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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Denekia
Denekia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Gymnopentzia
Gymnopentzia is a genus of African plants in the chamomile tribe within the sunflower family.
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Iocenes
Iocenes is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
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Espejoa
Espejoa is a genus of Mesoamerican flowering plants in the daisy family.
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Stilpnogyne
Stilpnogyne is a genus of flowering plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family. The only known species is Stilpnogyne bellioides, native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.
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Gilruthia
Gilruthia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Phaneroglossa
Phaneroglossa is a genus of plants that is assigned to the daisy family. It consists of only one species, Phaneroglossa bolusii, a perennial plant of up to high, that has leathery, line- to lance-shaped, seated leaves with mostly few shallow teeth and flower heads set individually on top of long stalks. The flower head has an involucre of just one whorl of bracts, few elliptic, white or cream ray florets, and many yellow disc florets. It is an endemic species of the Western Cape province of South Africa. Flowering mainly occurs from November to January.
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Pechuel-loeschea
Pechuel-loeschea, (common names; stinkbush, sweatbush, or bitterbos,) is a monotypic genus of African plants in the elecampane tribe within the sunflower family, and named after the German plant collector and geographer Eduard Pechuël-Loesche (1840-1913).
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Hymenocephalus
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Taplinia
Taplinia is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Oreochrysum
Oreochrysum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Criscia
Criscia is a genus of South American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Gnomophalium
Gnomophalium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Gyrodoma
Gyrodoma is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
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Prenanthella
Prenanthella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It contains the single species Prenanthella exigua, which is known by the common name brightwhite. It is native to the southwestern United States from California to Texas and it is known as far north as Idaho. Its habitat includes desert and woodlands. This annual herb produces a slender, branching stem reaching a maximum height near 40 centimeters. It has a sparse coating of glandular hairs and contains a milky juice. Most of the leaves are located near the base of the stem. They are widely lance-shaped and someti