''Ighermia'' was a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

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 ...

. It had only one species, ''Ighermia pinifolia'' It was first published in Nordic J. Bot. Vol.3 on page 445 in 1983. The genus name of ''Ighermia'' is derived from "Ighermi", a

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name of this plant.René Maire. Contribution à l'étude de la Flore de l'Afrique du Nord. Fascicule 24. Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord. volume 27. see pages 233-23

/ref> This is now classed as a

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of '' Asteriscus''

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Monotypic Asteraceae genera Inuleae Historically recognized angiosperm genera {{inuleae-stub