''Dicranocarpus'' 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 ...

. There is only one known species, ''Dicranocarpus parviflorus'', native to

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) and the

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, western

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References

Monotypic Asteraceae genera Flora of Northern America Coreopsideae {{Coreopsideae-stub