''Ajaniopsis'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of flowering plants in the

daisy family Asteraceae () is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger fam ...

described as a genus in 1978. There is only one known species, ''Ajaniopsis penicilliformis'',

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

.Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 667 画笔菊 hua bi ju ''Ajaniopsis penicilliformis'' C. Shih, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16(2): 87. 1978.
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Monotypic Asteraceae genera Anthemideae Flora of Tibet {{Anthemideae-stub