''Egletes'' (tropic daisy) 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 ...

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 is native to

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, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies, with the range of one species barely crossing the US border into the extreme southern part of Texas.Tropicos, ''Egletes'' Cass.
/ref> ; Species * ''Egletes domingensis'' Cass. - Hispaniola * ''Egletes floribunda'' Poepp. - Amazonas State, Brazil, Amazonas State in Brazil * ''Egletes florida'' Shinners - Venezuela, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago * ''Egletes humifusa'' Less. - Ecuador * ''Egletes liebmannii'' Sch.Bip. ex Hemsl. - Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Mexico * ''Egletes obovata'' Benth. ex Oerst. - Colombia * ''Egletes prostrata'' (Sw.) Kuntze - West Indies, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, northern Brazil * ''Egletes repens'' Shinners - Venezuela, Colombia * ''Egletes tenuifolia'' Cuatrec. - Colombia * ''Egletes viscosa'' (L.) Less. - Texas, Mexico, Central America, West Indies,

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