''Zemisia'' is a genus of

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 belonging to 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 ...

. The genus was

circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...

Rune Bertil Nordenstam Rune Bertil Nordenstam (born 1936) is a Swedish botanist and professor emeritus at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the Department of Phanerogamic Botany. He has worked with Colchicaceae, Senecioneae and Calenduleae, was the editor of ...

in Compositae News Lett. vol.44 on page 72 in 2006. It is native to southern Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Jamaica. The genus name of ''Zemisia'' is in reference to

Zemi A zemi or cemi (Taíno: ɛmi was a deity or ancestral spirit, and a sculptural object housing the spirit, among the Taíno people of the Caribbean.Bercht et al, 23 Cemi’no or Zemi’no is a plural word for the spirits. Theology Taíno ...

, a deity or ancestral spirit, and a sculptural object housing the spirit, among the

Taíno The Taíno are the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, Indigenous peoples of the Greater Antilles and surrounding islands. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of what is now The ...

people of the Caribbean. Species: * '' Zemisia discolor'' (Sw.) B.Nord. * '' Zemisia thomasii'' (Klatt) Pruski

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6171094 Senecioneae Asteraceae genera Flora of Mexico Flora of El Salvador Flora of Guatemala Flora of Honduras Flora of Jamaica