Kalimeris

Kalimeris
Kalimeris incisa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae[1]
Genus: Kalimeris
(Cass.) Cass., 1825
Synonyms[1]
  • 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 sunflower family.[2][3][4]

It was first described in 1825 by the French botanist Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781-1832).[2]

This genus occurs mainly in eastern Asia (China, Korea and Japan),[3] 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.[3]

Species[1]
  1. Kalimeris altaica
  2. Kalimeris associata
  3. Kalimeris ciliosa
  4. Kalimeris coronata
  5. Kalimeris hispida
  6. Kalimeris incisa
  7. Kalimeris indica : Indian Aster
  8. Kalimeris integrifolia
  9. Kalimeris lancifolia
  10. Kalimeris lautureana
  11. Kalimeris longipetiolata
  12. Kalimeris mongolica : Genghis Khan Aster
  13. Kalimeris procera - China
  14. Kalimeris shimadae
  15. Kalimeris smithianus
  16. Kalimeris tatarica

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1825. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles [Second edition] 37: 464, 491 in French
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hong-ya Gu and Peter C. Hoch (1997). "Systematics of Kalimeris (Asteraceae: Astereae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 84 (4): 762–814. doi:10.2307/2992027. JSTOR 2992027.
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Kalimeris (Cass.) Cass.