''Nesomia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe

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within 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 ...

.D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg. The genus is named in honor of American botanist Guy L. Nesom.Turner, Billie Lee. 1991. Phytologia 71(3): 208-211
diagnosis in Latin, description and commentary in English, full-page line drawing of ''Nesomia chiapensis''

Species

The only known species is ''Nesomia chiapensis'', native to the State of Chiapas in southern

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

.Turner, B. L. 1997. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 1 -- Eupatorieae. Phytologia Memoirs 11: i–iv, 1–272

References

Flora of Chiapas Eupatorieae Monotypic Asteraceae genera {{Eupatorieae-stub