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''Arctogeron'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of flowering plants in the family
Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae ...
.Tropicos, ''Arctogeron'' DC.
/ref> There is only one known species, ''Arctogeron gramineum'', native to
Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part o ...
, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan.Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
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Monotypic Asteraceae genera Astereae Flora of temperate Asia {{Astereae-stub