| Kalimeris | |
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| Kalimeris incisa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Kalimeris (Cass.) Cass., 1825 |
| Species | |
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Kalimeris (or the Kalimeris Asters) is a small genus with eight [1] species from the sunflower 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),[1] 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.[1]