Kalimeris
Genus of flowering plants
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::summary Genus of flowering plants ::
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- Aster subg. Kalimeris Cass.
- Aster sect. Asteromoea (Blume) Makino
- Boltonia sect. Asteromoea (Blume) Benth.
- Asteromoea Blume
- Aster sect. Kalimeris (Cass.) Nees ex O.Hoffm.
- Calimeris Nees, alternate spelling
Kalimeris (or the Kalimeris asters) is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae.
It was first described in 1825 by the French botanist Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781-1832).
This genus occurs mainly in eastern Asia (China, Korea and Japan), but is also naturalised on Hawaii.
They can grow to a height of 1-1.5 m. The foliage is herbaceous. The blue-green leaves vary per species and are smooth textured. They can be long and narrow, round with large teeth or lobed. The flower heads are solitary or in leafy flat-topped inflorescences. The disc florets are yellow, the ray florets are white, pink or purple.
The chromosome base number is x = 9. The genus's closest relatives are found in the Asian members of Aster and Heteropappus.
; Species
- Kalimeris altaica
- Kalimeris associata
- Kalimeris ciliosa
- Kalimeris coronata
- Kalimeris hispida
- Kalimeris incisa
- Kalimeris indica : Indian aster
- Kalimeris integrifolia
- Kalimeris lancifolia
- Kalimeris lautureana
- Kalimeris longipetiolata
- Kalimeris mongolica : Genghis Khan aster
- Kalimeris procera - China
- Kalimeris shimadae
- Kalimeris smithianus
- Kalimeris tatarica
Image:Kalimeris-incisa2.jpg|Kalimeris incisa - habit Image:Kalimeris mongolica - JBM.jpg|K. mongolica - habit
References
References
- "Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist".
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303987#page/497/mode/1up Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1825. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles [Second edition] 37: 464, 491] in French
- Hong-ya Gu and Peter C. Hoch. (1997). "Systematics of Kalimeris (Asteraceae: Astereae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
- [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40034394 Tropicos, ''Kalimeris'' (Cass.) Cass.]
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