Kalimeris

Taxobox
name = "Kalimeris"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Kalimeris incisa"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
genus = "Kalimeris"
genus_authority = (Cass.) Cass., 1825
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Kalimeris" (or the Kalimeris Asters) is a small genus with 8cite journal | title = Systematics of Kalimeris (Asteraceae: Astereae) | author = Hong-ya Gu and Peter C. Hoch | journal = Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden | volume = 84 | issue = 4 | date = 1997 | pages = 762–814 | url = http://www.botanicus.org/page/647827 | doi = 10.2307/2992027 ] species from the sunflower family (Astercaceae).

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 incisa"
* "Kalimeris indica" : Indian Aster
* "Kalimeris integrifolia"
* "Kalimeris lancifolia"
* "Kalimeris mongolica" : Ghengis Khan Aster
* "Kalimeris pinnatifida" : Japanese Aster
* "Kalimeris shimadae"
* "Kalimeris yomena"

References