
Jessea is a genus of Central American plants in the tribe Senecioneae within the sunflower family, closely related to Senecio.
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Jessea is a genus of Central American plants in the tribe Senecioneae within the sunflower family, closely related to Senecio.
The genus is named in honor of US botanist Jesse More Greenman (1867-1951), formerly of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Species Jessea cooperi (Greenm.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. – Panama, Costa Rica Jessea gunillae B.Nord. – Costa Rica Jessea megaphylla (Greenm.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. – Panama, Costa Rica Jessea multivenia (Benth. ex Benth.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. – Costa Rica
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).