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Monotypic Asteraceae genera

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Tussilago farfara
Tussilago farfara, commonly known as coltsfoot, is a plant in the tribe Senecioneae in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe and parts of western and central Asia. The name "tussilago" is derived from the Latin tussis, meaning cough, and ago, meaning to cast or to act on. It has had uses in traditional medicine, but the discovery of toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the plant has resulted in liver health concerns.
Prenanthes
Prenanthes is a genus of plant in the family Asteraceae, often referred to as rattlesnake root.
Callistephus
Callistephus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, containing the single species Callistephus chinensis. Its common names include China aster and annual aster. It is native to China and Korea. and it is cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant in cottage gardens and as a cut flower.
Arnoseris
Arnoseris is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Dendrocacalia
Dendrocacalia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
Crossostephium
Crossostephium is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The only species is Crossostephium chinense native to parts of Japan (Kazan-retto, Nansei-shoto), Taiwan, Guangdong, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, and the Philippines. thumb|Crossostephium in monsoon, in West Bengal, India.
Chardinia
Chardinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Ancathia
Ancathia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Karelinia
Karelinia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
Acanthocladium dockeri
Acanthocladium dockeri is a critically endangered species of the family Asteraceae that belongs to the monotypic genus Acanthocladium. It is commonly known as spiny everlasting or spiny daisy. It is native to Australia, and is found around the South Australian town of Laura.
Lonas
Lonas is a genus of flowering plants in the chamomile tribe within the daisy family. There is only one accepted species, Lonas annua, native to Italy, France, Germany, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.
Picnomon
Picnomon is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. The only known species is Picnomon acarna, native to Europe, Asia, and Africa from Portugal and the Canary Islands to Kazakhstan.
Chiliophyllum
Chiliophyllum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, containing the single species Chiliophyllum densifolium. It is endemic to Argentina, where it is known only from Mendoza Province. Its local common names include romero del piche and romero pichi.
Ajaniopsis
Ajaniopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family described as a genus in 1978.
Fulcaldea
Fulcaldea is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
Warionia
Warionia is a genus in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. The only known species is Warionia saharae, an endemic of Algeria and Morocco, and it is locally known in the Berber language as afessas, abessas or tazart n-îfiss. It is an aromatic, thistle-like shrub of ½–2 m high, that contains a white latex, and has fleshy, pinnately divided, wavy leaves. It is not thorny or prickly. The aggregate flower heads contain yellow disk florets. It flowers from April till June. Because Warionia is deviant in many respects from any other Asteraceae, different scholars have placed it he
Albertinia
Albertinia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family described as a genus in 1820.
Pojarkovia
Pojarkovia is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family.
Stilpnolepis
Stilpnolepis is a genus of Asian plants in the chamomile tribe within the daisy family.
Synedrellopsis
Synedrellopsis is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae.
Platypodanthera
Platypodanthera is a genus of plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.
Ismelia
Ismelia carinata, the tricolour chrysanthemum, tricolor daisy, or annual chrysanthemum, is an ornamental plant native to north Africa that is cultivated as a garden plant and grows as a weed in California. It is the sole species in the genus Ismelia. It has been hybridized with related Argyranthemum species to create cultivars of garden marguerites.
Petrobium
Petrobium is a genus in the family Asteraceae.
Chloracantha
Chloracantha is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, containing the single species Chloracantha spinosa. It is distributed in the southwestern and south-central United States (CA NV AZ UT NM TX OK LA), most of Mexico, and much of Central America. Its English language common names include spiny chloracantha, spiny aster, devilweed aster, and Mexican devilweed. In Spanish it is known as espina de agua, espinaza, and espinosilla.
Garberia
Garberia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing the single species Garberia heterophylla. It is endemic to Florida in the United States, where it is distributed in the northern and central counties. The plant is known commonly as garberia and '''Garber's scrub starts'''.
Allopterigeron
Allopterigeron is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family described as a genus in 1981.
Thiseltonia
Thiseltonia is a genus of Australian plants in the daisy family Asteraceae. It is placed in the pussy's-toes tribe Gnaphalieae. , the Global Compositae Database and Florabase accepted only one species, Thiseltonia gracillima, native to Western Australia, and regarded Thiseltonia dyeri as a synonym, while Plants of the World Online accepted Thiseltonia dyeri as a separate species.
Heteroderis
Heteroderis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Sclerolepis
Sclerolepis is an aquatic plant native to the eastern United States. It has only one known species, Sclerolepis uniflora, the pink bogbutton. It lives in ponds and other wet areas. When water is abundant, the plant lives underwater, with long stems and flaccid, elongated leaves, and does not flower. When the water level drops, it assumes a form more familiar in terrestrial plants, with an erect stem, and flowers in summer to fall. The flowers are pink.
Amblyolepis
Amblyolepis is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family described as a genus in 1836.
Achnophora
Achnophora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described as a genus in 1883.
Heteracia
Heteracia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. There is only one known species, '''Heteracia szovitsii,''' native to the Balkan Peninsula, Crimea, Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Xinjiang.
Bebbia
Bebbia, common name sweetbush, is a genus of aromatic shrubs in the family Asteraceae. Its only species is Bebbia juncea.
Schischkinia
Schischkinia is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Platycarpha
Platycarpha is a genus of South African plants within the family Asteraceae. It contains a single species, Platycarpha glomerata, which is native to the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Leptoclinium
Leptoclinium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Lepidophyllum
Lepidophyllum is a genus of South American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Neopallasia
Neopallasia is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the chamomile tribe within the daisy family. Molecular data indicate that Neopallasia is closely related to Seriphidium and could be easily included with that genus.
Teixeiranthus
Teixeiranthus is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae. , the Global Compositae Database accepted only one species, Teixeiranthus foliosus, endemic to northeast Brazil.
Platyschkuhria
Platyschkuhria is a genus of North American flowering plants in the daisy family. It contains a single species, Platyschkuhria integrifolia, the basindaisy. It is native to the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana (Carbon County), Utah, and Wyoming in the western United States.
Dymondia
Dymondia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. There is only one known species, Dymondia margaretae, endemic to the Cape Province region of South Africa.
Pacourina
Pacourina is a genus of South American flowering plants in the tribe Vernonieae within the family Asteraceae. The only known species is Pacourina edulis, widespread across tropical America from Guatemala to French Guiana to Paraguay.
Handelia
Handelia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
Harleya
Harleya is a genus of Mesoamerican flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Adenoon
Adenoon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described in 1850.
Holoschkuhria
Holoschkuhria is a genus of Peruvian flowering plants in the daisy family (Asteraceae or Compositae).
Eurydochus
Eurydochus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Synedrella
Synedrella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Pelucha
Pelucha is a genus of Mexican shrubs in the sneezeweed tribe within the daisy family.
Achyrachaena
The only species in the monotypic genus Achyrachaena is the annual herb Achyrachaena mollis, which bears the common name blow-wives. The genus name is both singular and plural.
Arctogeron
Arctogeron is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Takhtajaniantha
Takhtajaniantha is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae, widespread across central Asia, Middle east and eastern Europe.
Alatoseta
Alatoseta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described as a genus in 1931.
Ameghinoa
Ameghinoa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, described in 1897 by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini.
Tridactylina
Tridactylina is a genus of flowering plants in the chamomile tribe within the daisy family.
Glossopappus
Glossopappus is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
Staurochlamys
Staurochlamys is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Neurolaeneae within the family Asteraceae.
Feddea cubensis
Feddea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The only species is Feddea cubensis, endemic to Cuba.
Ugamia
Ugamia is a genus of flowering plants in the chamomile tribe within the sunflower family.
Vieraea
Vieraea is a genus of Canary Island plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae.