''Kaunia'' is a genus of shrubs or small trees 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 ...

.King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1980. Phytologia 47: 257-260
/ref>Tropicos, ''Kaunia'' R.M. King & H. Rob.
/ref> The species of the genus are found in South America with a range centered on Bolivia and also found in Argentina, southern Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. Genus is named for Edward Kaun of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. ; SpeciesFlann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
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