''Chaetacalia'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the family

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

. It includes a single species, ''Chaetacalia stylotricha'', an herbaceous perennial endemic to

Santa Cruz Department Santa Cruz () is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the country's territory. With an area of , it is slightly smaller than Japan or the US state of Montana. It is located in the ...

of Bolivia. The species was first described as ''Senecio stylotrichus'' by Ángel Lulio Cabrera in 1950. In 2021 John Francis Pruski placed the species in the new monotypic genus ''Chaetacalia'' as ''Chaetacalia stylotricha''.Pruski, J.F. Studies of Neotropical Compositae–XV. The new genus ''Chaetacalia'', retention of ''Aetheolaena'', ''Culcitium'', ''Haplosticha'', and ''Iocenes'', two new species of ''Senecio'', and ''Lasiocephalus'' revisited again (Senecioneae: Senecioninae). ''Phytoneuron'' 2021-65: 1–83. Published 22 December 2021. ISSN 2153 733X

References

{{Taxonbar, from= Q135067501, from2=Q135067541 Senecioneae Monotypic Asteraceae genera Endemic flora of Bolivia Taxa described in 2021